Times Higher Education has released its 2026 World University Rankings, which assessed 2,191 institutions from 115 countries and territories. Overall, University of Oxford remained in first place, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in second place and Princeton University and the University of Cambridge tied for third. In Canada, the top three universities were University of Toronto (#21), McGill University (tied for #41), and the University of British Columbia (#45). Others in the top 200 include McMaster University (tied for #116), the University of Alberta (#119), Université de Montréal (#150), the University of Waterloo (tied for #162), the University of Ottawa (tied for #187), and the University of Calgary (#200).
