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Waterloo is first in most innovative, second in best overall, and second in the comprehenxive category in this year's Maclean's University Ranking. The Daily Bulletin reports on the rnaking that was released today.

UW still ranked 'most innovative'
2 Nov 2006

The bottom line is, there's been some realignment in the top ranks, with UW now standing second among 47 institutions across Canada in the much-admired "Best Overall" column, behind the University of Alberta. Waterloo had been in first place there for 13 of the past 14 years. UW is still first as "Most Innovative", but came second (also to Alberta) in "Leaders of Tomorrow", and third (behind McGill and Queen's) in "Highest Quality", both categories where first place is familiar territory.

In the numerical ranking of 11 "comprehensive" universities — big institutions that don't have medical schools — UW is second this year, behind Guelph. Victoria comes third. A breakdown shows UW ranking first in reputation and in alumni support among the comprehensive institutions, and first also in the budget devoted to scholarships and bursaries. Waterloo is second in the percentage of the budget that goes to student services (likely because of co-op education and career services), in the percentage of faculty members who have PhDs, and in the percentage of classes that are taught by tenured faculty. But UW ranks last of the 11 in the average class size at the third- and fourth-year level.

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Some rankings that UW has received lately from other sources:

• 201st to 300th in the world (and 9th to 16th in Canada) in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's "Academic Ranking of World Universities".

• 84th on Newsweek's list of "the top 100 global universities".

• Not in the world's top 200 universities as listed in the World University Rankings produced by The Times Higher Education Supplement.

• Globe report card grades universities 1 Nov 2006
• 11 universities bail out of Maclean's survey [CBC.ca] 15 Aug 2006