For the first time since Laurentian University declared insolvency in 2021, the local university has not ranked dead last for reputation in the Maclean’s Magazine annual university rankings — it’s now only third from last.
The previous years, 2020 and 2019, Laurentian ranked 45th out of 49 universities for reputation in Canada, so LU wasn’t too high on the reputational list even before its insolvency. Maclean’s top-ranked primarily undergraduate university for this year is Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, while the worst-ranked university in this category is Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
These performance indicators are student awards, student/faculty ratio, faculty awards, social sciences and humanities grants, medical/science grants, total research dollars, operating budget, library expenses, library acquisitions, scholarships and bursaries, student services and reputational survey.
Sudbury.com reached out to Laurentian University, asking for an interview with interim president Sheila Embleton, to give some context to these numbers.