University of Waterloo

In just half a century, the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle, has become one of Canada’s leading comprehensive universities with more than 30,000 full- and part-time students in undergraduate and graduate programs. For 19 years in a row, Waterloo has been named Canada’s most innovative university in the Maclean’s annual university reputational rankings. Waterloo also topped the Most Likely to Produce the Leaders of Tomorrow category in 13 of the last 19 years, and was named Best Overall in 17 of 19 years — including in 2010 in all three categories. Among comprehensive universities — that is, those without a medical school — Waterloo has ranked No. 1 in all categories – Most Innovative, Most Likely to Produce the Leaders of Tomorrow, Highest Quality, and Best overall — every year since the Maclean’s reputational rankings were introduced 19 years ago.