Lakehead University moved up one spot in Maclean’s magazine’s annual university rankings.
The school tied for the number 11 spot in the primarily undergraduate category with Sudbury’s Laurentian University and Oshawa’s University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
That means it also tied for the second spot in Ontario with those universities. New Brunswick’s Mount Allison took the top spot overall in undergraduate universities.
The magazine ranked all Canadian Universities into the medical/doctoral, comprehensive and undergraduate categories. Lakehead president Brian Stevenson said he’s delighted to see the school moving up in ranks. In comparison to other Ontario undergraduate universities, Lakehead finished:
• 1st in Total Research Dollars
• 1 st in Social Sciences and Humanities Grants
• 1st in Library Holdings per Student
• 1st in Library Expenses
• 2nd in Student/Faculty Ratio
• 2nd in Student Awards
• 2nd in Scholarships and Bursaries
• 2nd in Library Acquisitions
• 2nd in Operating Budget
• 2nd in Faculty Awards
Those ranks are proof of the shift Lakehead is trying to make to a more research intensive school.
“Which really supports a new kind of evolving university focused on teaching and research,” Stevenson said.
“We’re constantly trying to give good support to our students. We’re constantly trying to improve the quality of the teaching, the quality of the research that we do and the outreach to the community.”
An area that needs improvement for Stevenson is getting people across the country to know Lakehead.
“People don’t know what a great place this is because we haven’t gone out there and told them,” he said.
