{"id":27642,"date":"2014-10-02T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T05:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=27642"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T02:35:05","slug":"canadian-universities-slipping-in-global-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/02\/canadian-universities-slipping-in-global-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian universities slipping in global ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27643\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uoft_universitycollege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27643\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uoft_universitycollege.jpg\" alt=\"The main building of University College, a National Historic Site since 1968, University of Toronto. Jphillips23 \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uoft_universitycollege.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uoft_universitycollege-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uoft_universitycollege-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uoft_universitycollege-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main building of University College, a National Historic Site since 1968, University of Toronto. Jphillips23 \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canadian universities are slipping in a global ranking based on learning environment, research, innovation and other performance indicators.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Canadian universities made the top 200 in the Times Higher Education ranking, and of those, only one\u2014the University of Toronto\u2014held its position at number 20.<\/p>\n<p>Another, the University of Victoria, jumped into the top 200 at number 173.<\/p>\n<p>The organization uses 13 criteria to evaluate and rank eligible universities.<\/p>\n<p>Schools are excluded if they don&#8217;t teach undergraduates, have too narrow a focus or if their research output was less than 1,000 articles between 2009 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>While American universities still dominate the list, they are also losing ground as Asia&#8217;s leading universities continue their steady climb.<\/p>\n<p>The other Canadian universities to crack the top 200 are the University of British Columbia, McGill, McMaster, the University of Montreal, the University of Alberta and the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian universities are slipping in a global ranking based on learning environment, research, innovation and other performance indicators. Eight Canadian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}