Eight years in a row: UBC continues to hold top spot in the 2025 Maclean's Magazine’s rankings of Canada’s best university business programs

The UBC Sauder School of Business continues to maintain the #1 ranking as the best business program in Canada, according to Maclean’s Magazine. Of the ten years that Maclean’s has published Canadian university program rankings, UBC Sauder has consistently topped the charts, achieving the top ranking in the category for eight straight years.

In the recently released Maclean’s Best Programs By Reputation, the University of British Columbia shared the top position in the “Business” section of the rankings with the University of Toronto, as both universities earned top marks in both of the main individual ranking categories: Program Reputation and Research Reputation.

Maclean’s has been evaluating Canadian universities for the past 34 years, and has been ranking university programs (Business, Computer Science, Education, Engineering and Nursing) for the past ten years, based on the programs’ reputations for quality and research strength.

UBC also topped the Maclean’s 2025 Best Programs By Reputation for Education, while placing second in Canada for Engineering and Nursing and third for Computer Science.

To compile the rankings, Maclean’s contacted faculty and senior administrators at universities across Canada, seeking their views in an online survey. They asked academics if their area of expertise was in any of the following five disciplines: business, computer science, education, engineering or nursing. If so, they were asked to list up to 10 universities that they felt offered the best programs and conducted the best research in their discipline. In the end, more than 1,000 professors, deans and chairs at 70 universities responded. Program reputation and research reputation contributed equally to the final results; both were weighted at 50 per cent.