For the fourth consecutive year, UVic holds second place among Canada’s comprehensive schools in the Maclean’s University Rankings for 2021.

A global impact ranking released today by Times Higher Education (THE) evaluating universities’ global contributions towards meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) puts UVic among the world’s top tier of leaders in climate action, and among the world’s top 100 institutions overall in contributing to a sustainable future for the planet. THE ranked UVic fourth among the world’s universities for climate action—meaning research and action taken to understand and respond to the global challenge of climate change.

The 2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released on March 4, show that UVic continues to perform among the world’s top universities across a wide range of disciplines.

Times Higher Education has released its 2020 world university rankings by subject for physical sciences and psychology, placing UVic programs in these areas among the Top 200 around the globe. These are in addition to previously announced Top-300 rankings for UVic in arts and humanities, computer science, and engineering and technology.

UVic has been rated as one of North America’s most sustainable universities, according to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

One of UVic’s longstanding research strengths was confirmed by the 2019 Leiden Rankings: UVic-based researchers wrote a higher proportion of top-performing papers based on international collaborations than any other university in North America.

UVic has maintained its second-place ranking among the top Canadian comprehensive universities in the 2019 Maclean's magazine rankings.

In September 2017, President Jamie Cassels launched a Global Reputation and Rankings Project to ensure that UVic's global impact is being accurately assessed by international university rankings such as QS and Times Higher Education.

UVic President Jamie Cassels late last month announced the launch of a Global Reputation and Rankings Project that will ensure UVic’s global impact is being accurately assessed by the world rankings systems that have become so influential in recent years.

For the fifth consecutive year, the rankings produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University highlight UVic’s role as a hub for international research, with UVic researchers publishing a higher proportion of scholarly work based on international collaboration than any other Canadian university.

UVic’s global leadership in five key academic fields, along with its comprehensive span of world-class programs across the university, were highlighted with the release of the 2016 QS World University Rankings by Subject on March 22. 

The University of Victoria has scored an “A” across all research areas in the global U-Multirank study, released Nov. 5, which provides quality metrics on a range of attributes important to prospective students and those interested in universities.

The University of Victoria was given a perfect score in the 2015 edition of The Princeton Review’s Guide to 353 Green Colleges, an annual publication spotlighting campuses in the US and Canada with exceptional commitment to sustainability in their policies, initiatives and academic programs. 

A data-driven analysis of scientific publications released May 20 by a leading European research centre puts UVic first in Canada for scientific impact in two broad fields—mathematics and computer science, and physical sciences and engineering.  The ranking, produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, also places UVic third in the country among all universities for overall scientific impact. 

In the prestigious Leiden rankings,  UVic places third in Canada for overall scientific impact and first in the country in two fields—mathematics and computer science, and physical sciences and engineering.

UVic’s global leadership in six key academic fields, along with its comprehensive span of world-class programs across the university, were highlighted with the release of the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject on April 29.