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STUDENTS/CLASSES
Maclean’s collects data on the success of the student body at winning national academic awards over the previous five years. The list covers 40 fellowship and prize programs, encompassing more than 17,000 individual awards from 2004 through 2008. The count includes such prestigious awards as the Rhodes Scholarships and the Fulbright awards, as well as scholarships from professional associations and the three federal granting agencies. Each university’s total of student awards is divided by its number of full-time students, yielding a count of awards relative to each institution’s size.

To gauge students’ access to professors, Maclean’s also measures the number of full-time-equivalent students per full-time faculty member. This student/faculty ratio includes all students, graduate as well as undergraduate.


FACULTY
In assessing the calibre of faculty, Maclean’s calculates the number who have over the past five years won major national awards, including the distinguished Killam, Molson and Steacie prizes, the Royal Society of Canada awards, the 3M Teaching Fellowships and nearly 40 other award programs covering a total of 822 individual awards. To scale for institution size, the award count for each university is divided by each school’s number of full-time faculty.

In addition, the magazine measures the success of faculty in securing research grants from SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR. Maclean’s takes into account both the number and the dollar value received in the previous year, and divides the totals by each institution’s full-time faculty count. Research grants are reported by how many are awarded to the primary investigator on a project. Social sciences and humanities grants and medical/science grants are tallied as separate indicators.



RESOURCES
This section examines the amount of money available for current expenses per weighted full-time-equivalent student. Students are weighted according to their level of study—bachelor, master’s or doctorate—and their program of study.

To broaden the scope of the research picture, Maclean’s also measures total research dollars. This figure, calculated relative to the size of each institution’s full-time faculty, includes income from sponsored research, such as grants and contracts, federal, provincial and foreign government funding, and funding from non-governmental organizations.


STUDENT SUPPORT
To evaluate the assistance available to students, Maclean’s examines the percentage of the budget spent on student services as well as scholarships and bursaries.


LIBRARY
This section assesses the breadth and currency of the collection. Universities receive points for the number of volumes and volume equivalents per number of full-time-equivalent students.

As well, Maclean’s measures the percentage of a university’s operating budget allocated to library services and the percentage of the library budget spent on updating the collection. In acknowledging a shift from the traditional library model—books on shelves—to an electronic access model, Maclean’s captures spending on electronic resources in both the library expenses and acquisitions measurements.



REPUTATION
This section reflects a university’s reputation in the community at large. For the reputational survey, Maclean’s solicits the views of university officials at each ranked institution, high school principals and guidance counsellors from every province and territory, the heads of a wide variety of national and regional organizations, and CEOs and recruiters at corporations large and small. Respondents rated the universities in three categories: Highest Quality, Most Innovative, and Leaders of Tomorrow. Best Overall represents the sum of the scores.

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  1. Comment by Ehab Waheed Lotfi on 20 June 2009:

    I need Faciliate to study in Canada like paper & my job in Egypt

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  2. Comment by Cody on 28 September 2009:

    ya just wondering where is uoit?

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  3. Comment by Brian on 2 October 2009:

    Oshawa.

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  4. Comment by shiva on 23 October 2009:

    is the network security course at UOIT good ? need advise / feedback.

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  5. Comment by Seuss on 18 November 2009:

    @shiva I’m a first year networking and security student at UOIT, I’m liking it a lot so far… The first year is defiantly networking oriented, the security aspect of the course doesn’t really come into play until third or fourth year, but so far I’m loving the program! If you think you’re interested in networking and security, I would defiantly suggest UOIT.

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  6. Comment by Jenn on 27 November 2009:

    How come University of King’s College (Nova Scotia) is not on the list?

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  7. Comment by Lauren on 14 January 2010:

    Is there a particular school or schools that are top rated in Education?

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  8. Comment by Pat on 1 February 2010:

    That is because King’s college is actually part of Dalhousie, similar to the relationship Huron has with Western, and St. Jerome’s with Waterloo.

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  9. Comment by Pat on 1 February 2010:

    As far as education is concurrent it depends if you are looking for concurrent (which i would not recommend but that is simply personal preference) or simply a Bachelor’s of Education. If you want concurrent though i would assume Queens would be the “highest” ranked, judging my the admission averages for it anyway. As far as getting hired is concerned though, and practical skills, nipissing seems to put out good teachers, regardless of what reputation surveys seem to say.

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  10. Comment by Pat on 1 February 2010:

    *I apologize the first time i say concurrent i meant to say concerned

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