The University of Toronto is among the world's top 25 universities for academic reputation and prestige, according to the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Ranking 2025 .
U of T placed first in Canada and 21st globally out of 300 institutions across 38 countries and territories in the annual ranking based on a survey of global scholars - a spot it's held for four consecutive years.
Among public universities, U of T ranked 12th overall and fourth in North America.
"This ranking once again underscores how highly the University of Toronto's teaching and research is regarded by academics around the world," said Trevor Young, U of T's vice-president and provost.
"It also demonstrates why we've been able to consistently attract the world's best minds to our three campuses."
The reputation ranking is based on results from the Times Higher Education Academic Reputation Survey, which was conducted between November 2023 and January 2024. The survey had more than 55,000 responses from 193 countries. Survey participants nominated more than 7,200 institutions and cast more than 750,000 votes.
The timing of the survey meant that U of T University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton's Nobel Prize win for foundational work in artificial intelligence , which made global headlines , did not affect this year's scores.
Times Higher Education introduced a revamped methodology to its reputation ranking this year that now gives teaching and research equal weight - compared to one third teaching, two thirds research previously - and adds two new lenses for participants to assess institutions. One is derived from asking survey respondents to rank a preselected list of five institutions (to encourage participants to consider schools beyond those that historically top the annual list). The other takes into account the diversity of countries where a given institution's votes originate (under the assumption that a geographically wider base of respondents indicates a stronger global reputation).
The top universities in this year's ranking are: Harvard University (first), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Oxford (joint second), and Stanford University and University of Cambridge (joint fourth).
Two other Canadian universities made the top 50 in the ranking: University of British Columbia (34th) and McGill University (44th).
The Times Higher Education reputation ranking comes on the heels of last fall's Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which also ranked U of T 21st in the world.
U of T continues to be the highest-ranked Canadian university and one of the top-ranked public universities in the five most closely watched international rankings: Times Higher Education's World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's Academic Ranking of World Universities, U.S. News & World Report's Best Global Universities and National Taiwan University World University Rankings.
