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2012-11-01 at 15:57

Lakehead slips in annual Maclean's rankings

By Jodi Lundmark, tbnewswatch.com
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THUNDER BAY -- Lakehead University has slipped one spot in Maclean’s 2013 university rankings.

Last year Lakehead was just shy of cracking the top 10 in the primarily undergraduate category in Maclean’s 22nd annual national university rankings. The 11th place ranking in the 2012 edition was one spot better than the 12th overall ranking the school received the year before.
 
The undergraduate category is for smaller universities that mostly focus on undergraduate programs. New Brunswick’s Mount Allison University nabbed the top spot for the 16th time in 22 years.

The University of Northern British Columbia cinched the No. 2 spot with the University of Lethbridge rounding out the top three.

In the comprehensive category, Simon Fraser University topped the list with the University of Victoria and University of Waterloo in second and third respectively.

The comprehensive category includes schools that have a significant amount of research activity as well as a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs as well as offering professional degrees.

And for the eighth year in a row McGill University has topped the medical doctoral rankings. The University of British Columbia came in at No. 2 and the third spot went to the University of Toronto.

Maclean’s bases their rankings on 14 indicators based on the quality of students, faculty, libraries and finances.
 

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Welliewoo says:
No surprise.

They are 12th in the lowest category of university ranking, and its with good reason:

1) They can't attract top tier staff (in most cases) as they bolt for larger institutions that support research.

2) Lakehead continues to let in anyone with a heartbeat. And by heartbeat, I mean money. Don't have high enough marks, and you have no experience or qualifications in anything? No problem! They will find a way to get you in to something and take your money.

Whats needed is both a raising of the entrance grands and standards, and a complete change of the culture of the university. For lack of a better description, it always seems to me to not be a "professional" setting. I cant put my finger on it, but there is something lacking in the culture of the university.

11/1/2012 5:42:51 PM
NDP says:
LUSU forces you to pay $1000+/year in fees in addition to your tuition for crap you don't want or need.

You're forced to buy a gym membership. When the hell do I have the time to work out? When I'm not in school, I'm at work. When I'm not at work, I'm at home doing things for school. We have to support LU Radio, be forced to buy health insurance and are only allowed to opt-out with proof of private insurance.

So basically they hold your $300+ ransom for 2-3 months and during that time you have to pray you get it back. That $300 would buy a couple books. The Bookstore and the Outpost are massive rip-offs. LUSU should be thrown in jail over the Bookstore alone.

Then we pay some of the highest tuition in the country, yet the buildings are not updated (Go check out the Braun Building some time). The locks on the doors of the Ryan Building don't work when they lock them at night.

We're not getting value for our big money. When I'm done, I'll have spent close to $30,000 on LU. For what?
11/2/2012 2:28:36 AM
NearCanuck says:
LUSU runs a used bookstore, but the Alumni Bookstore, i.e., the main bookstore, is not run by LUSU.
11/2/2012 11:54:46 AM
Tim H. says:
nobody is forcing you to go there and pay there tuition and other bs charges.

if youre wasting your money you are just the dummy LU is looking for.

it appears to be a matchmade in heaven.

It figures someone who supports the ndp would be entitled and incapable of accepting the consequences of there own idiocy.
11/3/2012 2:10:21 PM
NDP says:
Thanks for the advice! Were you the top of your class at Sylvan Learning Centre? Or did you acquire your degree from Tim Hortons?

It's hard to take someone calling me an idiot seriously when they can't properly discern between "they're", "their", and "there". And goes to Church. And is a Conservative. And has probably never set foot in an institution of higher learning.

I suppose your logic of "If you're stupid enough to pay for it, you're an idiot" applies to you as well, right? If Council spends money on something that you disagree with, well you're just the kind of simpleton Aldo Ruberto is looking to milk.

I'll be gone before I have to pay property taxes to the City. Hey, I might not be Einstein, but unlike you I'm smarter than Aldo.

Enjoy paying your zakat to fund Virdiramo's Oreo budget, you rube.
11/3/2012 9:39:53 PM
control says:
No big shock to hear this....
11/2/2012 8:50:23 AM
control says:
How bad are the Universities that are under Lakehead??
11/2/2012 8:51:05 AM
conker2012 says:
These rankings don't matter to the president of LU anyways, he doesn't want to compete.

He doesn't want to add to the successful engineering school by adding mining engineering because another school has the same program. FACEPALM!

The people they hire for the possition of president are the reason that this school has such low rankings.

Another reason this school is so low on the rankings is because of the low employment rate of many graduates. The majority of the teachers college graduates never get careers in their feild because the market is over crowded and this school keeps pumping them ouyout. Programs that have no market should cost far more than a program that actually supports what our society needs.

The other problem is they have different requirements for first nations, they need lower enterance grades compared to a non first nations, and this leads to more dropouts. An upgrade program to give these students a chance would reduce the FN dropout rate.
11/2/2012 8:54:29 AM
NearCanuck says:
The Native Access Program (NAP) is a lead-in program to help acclimate students to university style courses and provide a good knowledge base for incoming students.

There is usually good success with the Nursing students and those looking to go into the Humanities, from what I have heard.

With a wide range of educational backgrounds for the incoming students, it has got to be tough to design a program or course to benefit most of them.
11/2/2012 12:04:14 PM
Just sayin' says:
The tenure system is broken, too many academic researchers who live in a bubble staying there because it is safe and no longer have to perform. There is a storm coming where those who are doing research just to do research are going to be shut out of funding. This University has zero credibility with industry and will come back to haunt them. They need a complete overhaul of faculty with people who are interested in working with industry. I would never send any of my children to a post-secondary school in Thunder Bay.
11/2/2012 9:10:25 AM
The Badger Mountain Hermit says:
Providing you have enough categories available, you'll soon to be Numero Uno at something.
11/2/2012 10:06:39 AM
dman31029 says:
They are: Biggest on-campus pub in Canada.
11/2/2012 2:12:36 PM
ComradeLeninHiawathaZwig says:
And yet somehow, running a bar on a university campus in the middle of Thunder Bay, they're still too incompetent to turn a profit.
11/2/2012 8:23:58 PM
tomthepro says:
I am a grad of University of Toronto and Lakehead. My LU experience was far better and life changing compared to my UToronto experience. I feel well prepared and honoured to have gone to LU.
11/2/2012 10:58:14 AM
Gord says:
I respect Macleans, but this "ranking" system is the most useless thing I have seen. Universities are ranked differently by the general public depending on program and other variables such as specific program format and inclusions. For example, when I went there, Lakehead Engineering program was one of only a couple in Canada to feature Timber Frame design as a component of the structural engineering program. This feature alone drew in students from all over. Further, as far as I know, Lakehead's Education program is well regarded. Other Schools excel in certain areas (Queens = Engineering, Toronto = Law, etc) but to make one all encompassing "rank" is completely meaningless.
11/2/2012 4:51:06 PM
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