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Montreal named world’s best student city
Montreal has ended Paris’s five-year stint as the world’s best student destination, according to global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The fifth edition of the QS Best Student Cities ranking, featuring a ‘Student View’ indicator for the first time, provides further evidence of Canada’s increasing popularity and desirability as a student destination, particularly following recent political events in the United States and United Kingdom. It also underlines Canada’s strong position as it seeks to, by 2022, double its total of inbound international students.
Montreal’s success is the latest of a series of propitious signs for a city beginning to escape a period of economic stagnation, following positive growth forecasts for 2017, citywide initiatives designed to encourage entrepreneurship, and the recent announcement of its selection as the ‘World’s Most Intelligent City’. However, it is not only Montreal’s world-leading position that provides evidence of Canada’s status as a top-class international student nation. Other highlights for Canada include:
- Vancouver (10th) also places in the global top ten, while Toronto closely follows it in 11th;
- Four of Canada’s five ranked cities have risen up the overall ranking this year;
- The overall Canadian improvement is predominantly due to increases in QS’sAffordability indicator, which measures a combination of tuition fees and cost-of-living in each of the 125 cities for which QS conducted research;
- Ottawa is ranked the world’s number-one student city according to the 18,000 international students surveyed by QS for the ‘Student View’ indicator, which accounts for numerous factors, including tolerance & inclusion, willingness to remain in a city of study post-graduation, and a city’s social and cultural offerings;
- The ‘Student View’ indicator also sees Montreal in fifth place
- Toronto is ranked the world’s number-one city for Desirability, another composite indicator from which the overall ranking is constructed. The indicator includes, among other metrics, levels of pollution, corruption, and safety in a city;
- All five Canadian cities are among the world’s twenty most-desirable cities, with Vancouver 6th and Montreal 9th, and four of its five cities have improved theirDesirability scores;
- Montreal’s recent economic progress is evidenced by its 11-place improvement in rank for QS’s Employer Activity metric. It now ranks 16th worldwide for this composite indicator, which measures how favourably employers both international and domestic perceive the graduates of a city’s universities, and city unemployment rates.
- The global top ten can be found below:
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QS Best Student Cities 2017: Top 10
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| RANK 2017 | RANK 2016 | CITY |
| 1 | 7 | Montreal |
| 2 | 1 | Paris |
| 3 | 5 | London |
| 4 | 10 | Seoul |
| 5 | 2 | Melbourne |
| 6 | 9 | Berlin |
| 7 | 3 | Tokyo |
| 8 | 13 | Boston |
| 9 | 11 | Munich |
| 10 | 13 | Vancouver |
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