The University of Toronto has climbed one spot to 25th place globally in the latest edition of ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's worldwide university ranking.
Among public universities, U of T was ranked sixth in North America and 14th overall in the closely watched 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities. U of T remained Canada's top-ranked university in the rankings.
ShanghaiRanking Consultancy evaluated more than 2,500 universities to determine the 1,000 included in this year's publication.
"The University of Toronto's outstanding performance in these global rankings reflects the exceptional breadth and depth of our academic excellence," said U of T President Melanie Woodin. "It's also yet another sign of the tremendous impact of our faculty and graduates in responding to the key challenges of our time."
The Academic Ranking of World Universities is based on six weighted measures of research and academic performance collected from third-party sources. They include: the number of alumni and faculty winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals; the number of highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories; the number of papers published in the prestigious journals Nature and Science; articles cited in major science and social sciences citation indices; and each institution's per capita academic performance across all faculty members.
U of T's performance in the ranking was buoyed by a significant increase in the Award indicator, a direct consequence of University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.
Two other Canadian universities placed in the top 100: the University of British Columbia at 53rd and McGill University at 76th.
The five highest-ranked universities - unchanged from 2024 - were Harvard University, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley.
Overall, U of T continues to be ranked among the top 30 universities globally across the five most closely watched international rankings: QS World University Rankings, U.S. News & World Report's Best Global Universities, Times Higher Education's World University Rankings, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's Academic Ranking of World Universities and National Taiwan University World University Rankings.
