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سԹ moves up a spot in Maclean’s rankings of primarily undergraduate universities

Our small but mighty university continues to pack a punch, and others are noticing! In Maclean’s Magazine’s annual rankings of universities in Canada, سԹ has moved up a spot from fifth to fourth place for Canada’s

Since the Maclean’s university rankings were first established in 1991, سԹ has consistently placed in the top five.

The cites our that supplies the dining hall and our as stand-out features of the university. Another highlight is our overall focus on sustainability and environmental studies, with سԹ taking part in multi-institution research like the NSERC-funded Flax Fibre to Fabric project. The close-knit campus community, with over one third of students living on campus also distinguishes سԹ.

Another feature of سԹ that sets us apart in the rankings is our strong offering of experiential learning opportunities, like سԹ's Centre for Sensory Research of Food. With more than 90 per cent of co-op students landing work terms in 2023, سԹ grads are well positioned for life after graduation!

سԹ’s Community Development, Computer Science, and Law & Society programs are particular standouts among our academic programs. The plants also received a hat tip.

سԹ President, Jeff Hennessy, is quoted in the profile, saying “the world needs more critical thinkers, problem solvers, creators, leaders, and communicators. The personalized liberal arts education provided by سԹ is vital and increasingly rare, and it is upon us to work together to deliver the سԹ promise to our students so they can be prepared to confront the challenges of an increasingly complex world.”

In addition to our strong showing in the overall category for primarily undergraduate universities, سԹ also came in with high rankings in more specialized categories.

سԹ’s faculty and students were both recognized for, well, being recognized! Our faculty, who won awards like Teacher of the Year, and our students, who brought home awards like the prestigious 3M National Student Fellowship Award, earned us fifth place in faculty awards and sixth place in the student award categories. Our small class sizes got a nod once again, holding us steady at fifth place in the student/faculty ratio category. سԹ students earned an outstanding amount of funding, placing us in seventh in the scholarships and bursaries category.