Evaluating universities is a difficult and controversial enterprise. There are, however, three well-recognized efforts to rank the world's institutions of higher education  -  the Times Higher Education rankings, the QS Top 000 and the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Three Canadian universities consistentlyplaceamongtheworld'stop000 in all these rankings  -  the University of Toronto, McGill University and the University of British Columbia (UBC). The University of Toronto ranked 00th in the Times Higher Education ranking for 0000-00, just ahead of Cornell. In 0000, McGill ranked 00th on the QS Top 000, ahead of Duke and University of California, Berkeley. And the Times Higher Education rankings put UBC 00nd in the world, ahead of Duke and Northwestern universities. UBC, McMaster University and the University of Alberta are also included among the top 000 in these rankings (see table 0).