• The Munk School of Global Affairs integrates research with teaching and public education.
• The manuscripts and historic books at The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• U of T holds a top-12 spot in world rankings for medicine.

A world-renowned university.

The University of Toronto’s academic and research strengths rank among the best in the world — and are the best in Canada. Because of this, we attract top faculty and students seeking a mark of excellence acknowledged around the world.

The 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which measure the institutional excellence of the world’s top 200 universities in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, lists the University of Toronto as the top university in Canada and 19th in the world.

In 2011, the prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities put U of T first in Canada and 26th in the world. Newsweek followed with its rankings, placing U of T third among universities outside the United States — behind only the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. And, in a report that ranked U of T 23rd in the world and 2nd overall in Canada, QS World University Rankings placed U of  T first in Canada in academic reputation and in all five subject areas: arts and humanities; natural sciences; life sciences and biomedicine; engineering and IT; social sciences.

The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), which measures the research productivity, impact and excellence of published scientific papers of 500 universities around the world, ranked U of T at the top of the Canadian universities and ninth overall in 2010.

The University of Toronto ranked first in Research Infosource’s annual list of the top 50 research universities in Canada and topped the medical/doctoral category. The Shanghai-based Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks U of T 26th globally and first in Canada. In 2010, a new Western Australian ranking of High Impact Universities placed U of T 14th worldwide and first in Canada.

“There are rankings of many different aspects of university performance these days. However, in measurement, consistency counts. With these new results from the THE rankings, Toronto has measured up consistently well.”
- David Naylor, OC MD DPhil FRSC
President, University of Toronto