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Several Canadian-based publication have produced rankings of universities in Canada, the most prominent being the news magazine Maclean's under the name Guide to Canadian Universities which began in 1991. [1] Canadian-based publications have generally limited their rankings to only universities in Canada.
Colleges in British Columbia may refer to several types of educational institutions. College in Canada most commonly refers to a career-oriented post-secondary institutions that provides vocational training or education in applied arts, applied technology and applied science. There are 14 public funded colleges and institutes in British Columbia.
The following is a list of private universities that are authorized to issue degrees by a provincial authority. The following list does not include satellite campuses (Northeastern University - Toronto) and (Niagara University) and branches in Canada for universities based in the United States.
Simon Fraser University has placed in various international post-secondary school rankings. In the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 301–400 in the world and 13–17 in Canada. [57] The 2024 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 318th in the world and thirteenth in Canada. [58]
Higher education in British Columbia started in 1890 with the first attempt by the British Columbia government to establish a provincial university, An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia that established the first convocation of the "one university for the whole of British Columbia for the purpose of raising the standard of higher education in the Province, and of enabling all ...
Private universities in Canada are independent postsecondary institutions that have been granted the authority to confer academic degrees from a provincial authority. The oldest private universities in Canada operated as seminaries or as religiously-affiliated institutions, although several secular for-profit and not-for-profit private universities were established in Canada during the late ...
Aerial view of the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia. According to Maclean's, in 2016, the three universities with the highest enrollment of international students in first-year undergraduate studies were the University of British Columbia (31%), McGill University, (30.7%), and Bishop's University (29.6%). [29]
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada.With an annual research budget of $893 million, UBC funds 9,992 projects annually in various fields of study within the industrial sector, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations.