‘Young’ Oshawa university earns top ten engineering ranking in Canada in global university report

Ontario Tech University in Oshawa continues to add to its laurels, placing in the top 10 in Ontario and 23rd in Canada for engineering in the global Times Higher Education university rankings.

University of Toronto was the top ranked Canadian school in the global rankings, with Harvard taking the top spot in the world in the engineering category. American and English schools, in fact, topped all 11 categories, led by MIT, which scored three number ones.

Ontario Tech, named the Research University of the Year among Canada’s undergraduate schools for the third year in a row in 2025 by Research Infosource, scored especially high for ‘research environment’ in the Times Higher Education rankings.’The school’s research performance positions the university as one of Canada’s fastest-rising research powerhouses, Ontario Tech Vice-President of Research and Innovation Dr. Les Jacobs said last year, crediting the rise in prominence on the national and international stage to “strategic investments and a commitment to research that benefits Canadians.”

Ontario Tech ranked #1 among undergraduate universities in the Research Infosource rankings for research income growth, international research income growth and two categories related to university partnerships and research and placed second in Canada in three research categories and two AI categories, including the number of AI publications.

Also in 2025, Ontario Tech University earned a #3 seed in the province while ranking number one in the country in two categories in the annual Macleans university rankings.

A national clean-energy leader, with advance work in nuclear, hydrogen, battery storage, electrification, wind, solar and geothermal technologies, Ontario Tech also hosts Canada’s first International Atomic Energy Agency Collaborating Centre, which focuses on small modular reactors. Researchers are also studying future technologies such as nano reactors – small, portable, semi-permanent nuclear reactors that could make access to nuclear energy simpler and more affordable for communities nationwide.

Not bad for a school that only came into existence in 2002 and welcomed its first cohort of students in 20023.