Monday, April 15, 2024

The University of Toronto is ranked among the top 20 universities globally across all five broad subject fields featured in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024. 

The rankings, compiled by London-based analytics firm Quacquarelli Symonds, evaluate universities’ performance across five broad subject fields and 55 more specific subjects. In the Law and Legal Studies subject field, U of T Law is first in Canada, top 10 in North America and top 20, globally.

McGill University's Faculty of Law ranked 28; the University of British Columbia's Peter A. Allard School of Law ranked 42; and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law ranked 99 to round out the only Canadian law schools in the top 100.

For the 2024 edition of its subject rankings, Quacquarelli Symonds ranked nearly 1,600 universities across 55 subjects. The results are based on indicators including academic and employer surveys, research citations per paper, an index that quantifies the productivity and impact of an institution’s published work and a metric that reflects the reach of international collaborations.

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