Macleans has just released its survey of Canadian Universities and Carleton University is much happier than it was a year ago.A year ago it was put at the bottom of the class in a ranking of Canadian Universities by Maclean's magazine. In fact, it was so upset with the way Macleans did its analysis that it joined 25 other universities in refusing to participate.
This year, Macleans changed the way it surveyed the universities. Instead of relying on student information provided by the universities, the rankings are based on data from Statistics Canada, the federal research funding agencies and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
Carleton jumped from last place (11th) to 7th among schools with a comprehensive mix of professional programs. Which is good news for Carleton and good news for Ottawa.
If nothing much changed in the Universities over the last 12 months, it may not say much about the value of Macleans surveys but it's all good bragging rights for admission teams.
Tim
