UBC大学再次出现在世界最好的大学名单上，而在加拿大排名第二，仅次于多伦多大学。
2015年的全球大学学术排行榜上 （2015 Academic Ranking ofWorld Universities ARWU），哈佛大学再次为榜首、其次是斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院和加州大学伯克利分校。除了英国的剑桥大学和牛津大学，其他前10名的大学全位于美国。
加拿大第一名的多伦多大学在全球排第25名、UBC40名、麦吉尔大学64和麦克马斯特大学第96。
该排名是根据6大因素来做决定的：包括“校友和员工赢得诺贝尔奖和菲尔兹奖的数目，论文被引用的数量“等
需要注意的是，这些排名主要依据于大学的科学技术研究，包括：
自然科学和数学
工程/技术与计算机科学
生命与农业科学
临床医药
社会科学
BC省最大的三所大学取得了加拿大排名前20位：SFU全加第10、维多利亚大学第14
Top universities in Canada in 2015（全加大学排行榜）
University of Toronto
University of British Columbia
McGill University
McMaster University
University of Alberta
University of Montreal
Dalhousie University
Laval University
Queen’s University
Simon Fraser University
University of Calgary
University of Guelph
University of Ottawa
University of Victoria
University of Waterloo
Western University
University of Manitoba
University of Saskatchewan
Carleton University
University of Quebec
Top 50 universities in the world（全球排名榜）
Harvard University, USA
Stanford University, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
University of California-Berkeley, USA
University of Cambridge, UK
Princeton University, USA
California Institute of Technology, USA
Columbia University, USA
University of Chicago, USA
University of Oxford, UK
Yale University, USA
University of California-Los Angeles, USA
Cornell University, USA
University of California-San Diego, USA
University of Washington, USA
Johns Hopkins University, USA
University of Pennsylvania, USA
University College London, UK
University of California-San Francisco, USA
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
University of Tokyo, Japan
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
University of Toronto, Canada
Kyoto University, Japan
New York University, USA
Northwestern University, USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
Duke University, USA
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Rockefeller University, USA
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pierre and Marie Curie University-Paris 6, France
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
University of California-Santa Barbara, USA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
University of British Columbia, Canada
University of Manchester, UK
University of Paris-Sude (Paris 11), France
University of Maryland-College Park, USA
University of Melbourne, Australia
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA
Heidelberg University, Germany
University of Edinburgh, UK
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
University of Southern California, USA
University of California-Irvine, USA
UBC fellin the ranking since 2014 when they held the 37th position. This is the second timeUBC has place at number 40 since 2003, the lowest position they have claimed onthe list in the same number of years. The Canadian rankings have not changedsignificantly over the years with Toronto always claiming first place followedby UBC.
Toronto, UBC, McGilland McMaster have always been the top four universities in Canada since theARWU rankings began in 2003 and are the only Canadian schools to make theWorld’s Top 100.
