B.C. university named one of the best in the world in new global rankings
The University of British Columbia is once again raking in the accolades, placing high on a ranking of the world’s best schools in major subject areas.
According to the annual listings from QS World University Rankings, UBC ranked in the top 25 for both Life Sciences & Medicine and Natural Sciences.
While this website also crowns a winner overall each year, it releases other reports, such as a breakdown by subjects, to help prospective students pick their perfect school.
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Life Sciences and Medicine saw UBC once again named best in the west but far behind the University of Toronto, which was named the best in the country.
UBC ranked 23rd while U of T claimed the 13th spot across nine individual subjects such as medicine, dentistry, and veterinary science.
In the Natural Sciences category, UBC was much closer to its Toronto counterpart, ranking 22 and 20, respectively.
Nine individual subjects are featured within the natural sciences subject area, including geography, physics, and mathematics.
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“This year’s rankings are our biggest yet, with 171 institutions included this year who were not present in the 2024 edition,” said QS World University Rankings.
“Several subjects, including medicine, computer science and information systems, and materials science now feature more ranked institutions than ever before.”
UBC was also recently scored as the world’s fifth most sustainable university, according to QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The post-secondary institution was also named second-best in all of Canada by Times Higher Education (THE), a British magazine specializing in higher education issues.