CWUR 2025 Global Rankings find Canadian institutions dropping

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has released its 2025 Global Rankings. The rankings assessed over 21,000 institutions according to criteria related to the academic and professional success of each university’s alumni, the number of faculty members with top academic distinctions, and research metrics such as influence and citations. The global rankings for 2025 feature the top 2,000 institutions from around the world, including 38 Canadian institutions. Four Canadian institutions were in the top 100: the University of Toronto (#23), McGill University (#27), the University of British Columbia (#48), and the University of Alberta (#81). Narcity reports that CWUR saw 28 Canadian universities drop down the ranking this year, which the organization attributed due to lower performance in research.