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McMaster is highly ranked by Times Higher Education, QS, Shanghai Jiao Tong, CWS Leiden, Maclean’s magazine and others. Learn more about our consistently high performance and international reputation when it comes to global impact, teaching, research, top 100 programs, equity, diversity and sustainability.

Times Higher Education World University 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022 QS World University Rankings 2024
World Ranking 

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Canada Ranking

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Times Higher Education Impact Rankings

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Clinical & Health Rankings

THE World University

McMaster is ranked #25 in the world in Clinical and Health by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023.

Maclean's University

McMaster was ranked #4 in Canada in the “medical-doctoral” category by Maclean’s University Rankings 2023. (Universities in this category have a broad range of research opportunities and PhD programs, as well as medical schools).

Top Performing Indicators: Student Services (ranked 1st), Medical/Science Grants (ranked 3rd), Total Research Dollars (ranked 2nd) and Library Acquisitions (ranked 2nd).

QS World University

McMaster is ranked #24 in Nursing, #40 in Medicine and #48 in the “Broad Subject Area” of Life Sciences & Medicine by the QS World University Rankings 2023.

Subject Rankings

QS World University

McMaster is ranked #22 in Sports-Related Subjects, #36 in Anatomy & Physiology and in the top 100 in ‘Theology, Divinity, and Religious Studies’ by the QS World University Rankings 2023.

THE World University

McMaster is ranked #105 in the world in Life Sciences by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023.

Academic Rankings of World Universities

McMaster was ranked #47 in the world in Clinical Medicine by the ShanghaiRankings Consultancy Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) 2022.