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Rankings list McGill as top university in Canada

Jane Garcia Buhks, 22, is seen at McGill University in Montreal on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)
Jane Garcia Buhks, 22, is seen at McGill University in Montreal on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)

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Date: Wednesday Sep. 8, 2010 8:16 AM ET

MONTREAL — McGill tops all other Canadian Universities in the quality of education it provides, and is listed 19th in the latest QS World University Rankings.

It's the Montreal school's seventh straight top 25 overall ranking, and it made the top 35 list of schools in Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences & Management.

Principal and vice-chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum called it a terrific result that reflects the broad strengths, superb talents and dedicated efforts of the faculty, students, staff and alumni.

Founded in 1821, McGill attracts students from more than 150 countries, almost half of whom claim a first language other than English.

QS World University Rankings was launched in 2004, and for 2010, produced its ratings in association with partners including US News & World Report and Scopus, the Elsevier database.

The rankings have gained broad recognition among students, academics and researchers around the world.

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Prof. Pye Chartt
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Yaayyy!!! Nineteenth in the world! We're so superiorly educated, academically gifted, smart, and gosh-darn awesome! (As per usual, those "dumb" American neighbors of ours clobber the list, especially the top 20, while Britain garners a highly respectable secondary share.) Some of my pals hailing from the University of Western Ontario, who are fond of deludedly regarding their school and themselves as "Canadian Ivy League" material, and look down upon my American graduate-school education with humorous contempt, will undoubtedly be shrunken to appropriate size given the school's unimpressive ranking of 164. My university can't even see yours, you're so far down the list. Ouch!) Expectedly, some unknowing, desperately defensive soul(s) will jump in to table the false assertion that the QS World University Rankings are bogus, and rigged by Americans. (Nope. Sorry. The system actually has credible British roots, and U.S. News & World Report is merely a new publishing partner. Scopus/Elsevier is headquartered in Amsterdam.)


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