Several Canadian postsecondary institutions have appeared among the leaders of Forbes’s list of Canada’s Best Employers in 2026. This publication ranks organizations with 500 or more workers in Canada based on surveys of employees. The top organization overall was Université Laval. Other postsecondary institutions to rank in the top 50 included Université de Sherbrooke (#3), Concordia University (#5), Toronto Metropolitan University (#14), British Columbia Institute of Technology (#25), George Brown Polytechnic (#27), and the University of Prince Edward Island (#47). ULaval Executive Vice Rector André Darveau told Forbes that the university is focused on putting employees at the centre, especially in difficult times: “Every time we talk to them, we make sure that we thank them and we recognize their work.”
