November 10, 2008

Maclean's Magazine released the results of its annual ranking today and UNBCachieved its highest ranking ever, placing second among 19 small,Canadian universites (which Maclean's calls "primarily undergraduate"universities). Mt. Allison placed first.

As in other years and in other surveys, UNBC performs very well incategories that measure students and faculty quality, class size,library growth, and research. In fact, UNBC placed first for "totalresearch," reinforcing the results in the "research university of theyear" analysis that was printed in the National Post last week.

In addition to the objective data that Maclean's gathers from thevarious universities, Maclean's uses student and reputational surveysto assess perceptions of university quality. UNBC was tops in BC forfaculty-student interaction and overall educational experience forstudents on the verge of graduating. In the reputational survey, wewere again identified as a "leader of tomorrow."

The Maclean's survey rounds out a series of annual reviews ofuniversities, covering student satisfaction (Globe and Mail), research(National post), and overall quality (Maclean's). We reached our bestresult ever in Maclean's and the National Post and we debuted in theGlobe at A-, second in BC. Overall, great results that illustrate thesuccess we have all - northern communities, government, students, andfaculty/staff - had in building a high-quality university for the Northand beyond.

Feel Free to contact the President's office at(250)960-5771 to set up an interview.  Other Media inquiries can be directed to Mike Kellett at (250)960-5621.

Macleans Magazine

University Rankings (PDF)

Overall Rankings

Contact:
Rob van Adrichem, Director of Media and Public Relations, UNBC – 250.960.5622
Mike Kellett, Communications Officer, UNBC - 250.960.5621