Three Canadian universities are among the top 50 most prestigious schools in the world, according to a newly released global ranking.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) placed 36th while McGill University in Montreal came in 47th.
The rankings of universities across the globe are based on the results of an invitation-only opinion survey of senior, published academics.
The scholars are asked to name no more than 15 universities that they believe are the best for research and teaching in their respective fields.
The University of Toronto received an overall score of 17.7 with an 18.8 rating for research and 14.6 for teaching. The school has been consistent in the rankings, taking the 21st spot for the past three years.
UBC received an overall score of 9.2, with 9.7 in research and 7.4 for teaching while McGill had an overall score of 7.3 with a 7.5 ranking for research and 6.6 for teaching.
Other Canadian schools to make the top 200 were the University of Alberta, the University of Montreal, and the University of Waterloo, which ranked between 126th and 150th, and McMaster University which ranked between 176th and 200th.
Universities in 31 countries are included in the ranking with schools from the United States having the highest representation on the list followed by the United Kingdom.
Harvard University topped the list for the 13th year in a row, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University in California, giving the U.S. the top three spots. Rounding out the top five were the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the UK.
The University of California, Berkeley, took sixth place followed by Princeton University in New Jersey. Tsinghua University in China, Yale University in Connecticut, and the University of Tokyo took the final three spots in the top 10.
Overall, the U.S. had 52 institutions make the list while the U.K. had 20, China had 15, and Germany had 14.
There was also a rise in the number of universities from the Middle East, with seven institutions from the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia added to the ranks this year.
