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Dal’s position among U15 improves in 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities

- September 11, 2025

Dal climbed 17 places globally year over year in ShanghaiRanking's latest report. (Cody Turner photo)
Dal climbed 17 places globally year over year in ShanghaiRanking's latest report. (Cody Turner photo)

¼¤ÇéÒÁÈËÂé¶¹¾Ã¾Ã×ÛºÏ strengthened its standing relative to other major Canadian research universities in the 2025 , tying for 11th in the country's U15 group compared to 13th last year.ÌýÌý

The university also climbed 17 places globally in the ranking year over year, maintaining a spot in the 301-400 cohort out of the 1,000 institutions ranked.Ìý

Dal ranked 11-15 among all participating Canadian universities (as distinct from the U15 cohort), unchanged from last year.

The global ranking, released annually by ShanghaiRanking, assesses universities against a range of six academic and research performance indicators.Ìý

Dal increased its score on two indicators this year: Published Articles in Nature & Science (+15.6 per cent). and Highly Cited Researchers (+0.9).

The universityÌýdipped in the Alumni Awards, Papers Indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Index (PUB), and Per Capita Performance (PCP) indicators.Ìý

Scores assigned to universities for each indicator are weighted to arrive at a final overall score for an institution. The top institution gets a score of 100, with other institutions' scores calculated as a percentage of that score.Ìý

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