Electrical engineering students on campus at UOIT in Oshawa, ON. (Photograph by Cole Garside) Photograph by Cole Garside
Canada’s top engineering universities 2016: Full results
A full list of 20 schools including their overall ranking and how they place on each of the five indicators
For the first time ever, Maclean’s ranked the best engineering programs at Canadian universities. To check out our photo gallery of the top 10 click here. Below are the top 20 engineering universities in Canada from our 2016 rankings, assessed on five indicators: program reputation, research reputation, fractional citations, fractional publications, and field weighted citation impact. If you want to see our rankings of the best schools in Canada in nine other categories including business, psychology, and computer science click here. If you want to see how we put the rankings together, check out the methodology.
Top 20 Engineering Universities
| Overall Ranking | University | Program Reputation | Research Reputation | Fractional Publications | Fractional Citations | Field Weighted Citation Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toronto | *1 | *1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Waterloo | *1 | *1 | 2 | 2 | *3 |
| 3 | UBC | 3 | 3 | *3 | 4 | *12 |
| 4 | Alberta | 4 | 4 | *3 | 3 | *12 |
| 5 | McGill | *6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| 6 | Ottawa | 8 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | Queen's | 5 | 6 | 12 | 12 | *19 |
| 8 | Montréal | *9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 11 |
| 9 | McMaster | *6 | 7 | 10 | 10 | *25 |
| *10 | Calgary | *9 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
| *10 | Victoria | *17 | *26 | 19 | *15 | 1 |
| 12 | Laval | *13 | *11 | 14 | 11 | 16 |
| 13 | Ryerson | 16 | *22 | 13 | 14 | 9 |
| *14 | Saskatchewan | *20 | *19 | 18 | *15 | 7 |
| *14 | Western | *11 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 29 |
| 16 | York | *23 | *22 | 30 | *30 | *3 |
| *17 | Dalhousie | *13 | 14 | *20 | *15 | *17 |
| *17 | Lakehead | *23 | *32 | 32 | *28 | 5 |
| 19 | Simon Fraser | 19 | *17 | *16 | 19 | *12 |
| *20 | Concordia | *23 | *19 | 9 | 13 | *17 |
| *20 | UOIT | *27 | *19 | 24 | 24 | 8 |
*Indicates a tie.
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