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University Rankings 2015: Faculty Awards

Faculty at Toronto, Waterloo and Saint Mary’s place first in winning awards

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Photograph by Cole Garside

Photograph by Cole Garside

Strong professors inspire as well as instruct their students, and they have to balance two important roles: teaching and research. In assessing the calibre of faculty, Maclean’s looks at their success in winning national awards from more than 40 awards programs. The figures below show the five-year tally (2009-13) of the number of full-time professors, per 1,000, who have won national awards.

Medical Doctoral


Faculty Awards
1 Toronto 10.4
2 Queen's 9.5
3 Alberta 7.9
4 McGill 7.7
5 UBC 7.3
6 Montreal 6.2
7 McMaster 5.6
8 Dalhousie 5.2
*9 Calgary 3.3
*9 Ottawa 3.3
*11 Laval 2.9
*11 Western 2.9
13 Sherbrooke 2.3
14 Saskatchewan 1.9
15 Manitoba 1.7

Comprehensive


Faculty Awards
1 Waterloo 5.7
2 Simon Fraser 4.9
3 Victoria 4.2
4 Carleton 3.1
*5 UQAM 3
*5 York 3
7 Concordia 2.5
8 New Brunswick 2.4
*9 Guelph 2.3
*9 Windsor 2.3
*11 Memorial 1.5
*11 Wilfrid Laurier 1.5
13 Brock 1.4
14 Regina 0.8
15 Ryerson 0.4

Primarily Undergraduate


Faculty Awards
1 Saint Mary's 4.9
2 Mount Allison 4.2
3 Trent 4.1
4 UNBC 3.2
5 Lakehead 2
6 St. Francis Xavier 1.6
7 Laurentian 1.4
8 Moncton 1.1
9 Lethbridge 0.9
10 UPEI 0.8
11 Winnipeg 0.6
*12 Acadia none
*12 Bishop's none
*12 Brandon none
*12 Cape Breton none
*12 Mount Saint Vincent none
*12 Nipissing none
*12 UOIT none
*12 St. Thomas none

 

To see more from our 2015 university rankings issue, visit www.macleans.ca/rankings. For a full description of the ranking methodology, click here. 
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