UBC keeps place among best
Wed, October 15 2008
UBC placed 34th in the world in the 2008 Times Higher Education — QS World University Rankings, recently released in London and covering more than 1,000 universities.
In August, another survey, the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities, by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, placed UBC at 35 in its annual survey of the world’s top 500 universities.
“While the very idea of comparing universities is fraught with methodological problems, we are beginning to see a pattern in these surveys that mirrors the research excellence that we have fostered at UBC,” said UBC President Stephen Toope.
“And that acknowledges the fruition of wise research investments by our federal and provincial governments.”
International rankings of the thousands of universities around the world are a recent phenomenon.
The first such ranking was compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003, when UBC was also placed at 35.
Since that time, the university has placed between 35 and 37th place.
Domestically, UBC placed second in the 2007 Maclean’s rankings.
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