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.
