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McMaster Engineering Ranked Among World’s Best
March 25, 2010
McMaster’s engineering program has been ranked as one of the best in the world. It was listed as 89th in U.S. News and World Report’s 2009 World's Best Universities for Engineering and IT.
McMaster is one of only seven Canadian university engineering programs to make the ranking.
A key criterion for compiling the rankings is academic peer review, which accounts for 40 per cent of the result, and is based on three years worth of responses totaling 9,386 in 2009. Other criteria include: employer review, international faculty ratio, student ratio, student faculty ratio, and citations per faculty.
The rankings are based on data from the QS World University Rankings, which were produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the world’s leading networks for careers and education. It has been publishing world rankings since 2004.
University engineering and IT programs were ranked first through 98th. With ties, 116 universities made the ranking. The results are part of the wider World’s Best Universities rankings, in which 400 universities were ranked.
The top five ranked engineering and IT universities are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, and California Institute of Technology.
Other Canadian universities in the ranking are: University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, McGill University, University of Waterloo, University of Alberta, and University of Calgary.
