McGill University has lengthy been thought-about one of many crown jewels of Canadian post-secondary schooling, and by most measures it nonetheless is. However a brand new global ranking suggests the Montreal establishment has some floor to make up.
The Center for World University Rankings launched its 2026 version this week, evaluating 21,291 establishments worldwide throughout 4 classes: high quality of schooling, employability, college high quality and analysis output. McGill got here in at twenty eighth globally, a slight slip from the twenty seventh place end it held in each 2024 and 2025.
It is a marginal drop, but it surely does imply McGill missed the highest 25 for one more yr, sitting simply exterior a tier dominated virtually completely by American and British establishments. Harvard topped the listing with an ideal rating of 100, adopted by MIT and Stanford. The College of Cambridge and Oxford rounded out the highest 5. The primary non-English-speaking establishment to crack the highest 20 was PSL College of France, which got here in at twentieth.
On the Canadian entrance, McGill’s twenty eighth place end nonetheless makes it the second-ranked college within the nation behind the College of Toronto, which positioned twenty third. The College of British Columbia got here in third amongst Canadian colleges at forty ninth globally.
McGill’s rating of 87.0 locations it within the prime 0.2% of all ranked establishments worldwide.
And whereas McGill solely suffered a slight dip on this specific rating, it hasn’t fared as nicely throughout the board. When TIME and Statista launched their very own 2026 world college listing earlier this yr, McGill landed at 154th total, nicely behind U of T at twenty fourth and UBC at thirty third.
The total CWUR World 2000 listing is on the market at cwur.org.