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Vancouver, British Columbia · Founded 1908 · Official site ↗
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Reputation & academic strength (100% editorial · no reviews yet). 95/100
How openly it publishes & sources its data. 73/100 · 4/4 signals
A research-intensive west-coast university with a flagship Vancouver campus and a second in the Okanagan. Known for strong co-op, sustainability and environmental research, and a striking coastal-mountain setting. Large, selective, and international.
Derived from University of British Columbia's own published flagship or known-for programs. Used to weight our program-specific rankings.
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Our own grades, computed from objective public data, relative to other universities. This is the school's overall quality. Click any row to see how University of British Columbia compares on that attribute.
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Published by the institution or government and linked to the official source. These are what drive our outcome-based rankings. The exact calculation that produced the 57/100 score is shown below.
Each verified outcome is scored 0-100 against the range its peers actually publish, then blended by weight. University of British Columbia publishes 2 of 3 verified metrics; missing metrics earn zero rather than increasing the weight of the available ones.
“95% of the 2023/24 cohort of first-year undergraduate students were retained into 2024/25 (UBC Vancouver)”
“84% of UBC Vancouver students [2018/19 cohort] completed their programs within six years”
Scored on 2 of 3 outcome metrics: the rest aren't published with a verifiable source, so they earn zero rather than being estimated.
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How openly University of British Columbia publishes the data families need, keeps it current, and links it to an official source. We score whether the data exists, not the results themselves. Each signal's source and its share of the 73/100 are shown below.
Each signal can earn a share of 100 points equal to its weight; a partly-met signal earns proportionally less. The points below add up to the score.
2 of 3 outcome metrics sourced
v1 scores objective, automatically-checkable signals. Editorial clarity assessments (admission rubric, website, policies), grounded in University of British Columbia's own pages and human-reviewed before publishing, are being added.
University of British Columbia offers programs across 13 fields, listed below at the program level. All 144 are confirmed on University of British Columbia's official programs page. Program outcomes roll up into the verified school-level figures above. We don't yet have verified program-level stats for these, so we mark each Unverified rather than show an estimate.
Program list compiled from University of British Columbia's published program areas and flagship programs. Program pages may inherit verified school-wide outcomes, but we do not present those as program-specific results.
2 of 5 facts currently link to verified official sources.
Every statistic on this page carries an evidence label. 2 of 5 stats currently link to a verified official source; the rest are marked Unverified until we confirm them against an official page. We never invent a citation to fill the gap.
An automated checker re-verifies every official source on this page on a daily schedule. If a source page moves, breaks, or changes, it's flagged and the figure is held out of our rankings until it's re-confirmed against the official page. Most recent run for University of British Columbia: September 29, 2026. How we keep this current →
Data as of June 2026. Verified official pages are listed in the sidebar. Our citation policy → · Our accuracy log →
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Recent admitted students typically had a 89-91% average.
Domestic tuition is about $6,230/yr; international tuition is about $44,000/yr.
Yes, University of British Columbia offers co-op programs.
Yes, University of British Columbia offers on-campus residence.
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admitted average documented on an official page (2024/25)
2 reachable official links; value verification is scored separately
We score whether the data EXISTS and is sourced, not the results themselves. A school is never penalized here for a low outcome, only for not publishing one.