By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

The Times Higher Education Supplement and Newsweek have both come out with long lists of the world’s best universities. It’s not much of a surprise, but the Ivy League figures prominently with Harvard and Yale in the top five for both lists. The British based THES ranks Oxford and Cambridge prominently while Newsweek relegates Oxford to eighth place.
Canadian universities stack up well. U of T, at #18, is the best Canadian university on the Newsweek list. It’s joined by UBC (#31), McGill (#42) and the University of Alberta (#55). The THES list (hidden behind a subscriber firewall) is even more controversial putting McGill at #21, a bit above U of T at #27. But all of you who went to McGill already knew that it was better than U of T, right?
Picture of U of T’s Knox College taken by Chelseagirl from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.