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The University of Alberta is a Top 5 Canadian university with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry ranked among the top 100 in the world. In 2022, the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry was ranked 75th globally by Times Higher Education's world univeristy rankings in the area of clinical health.
The University of Alberta is the fifth largest university in Canada, with three colleges, 18 faculties, five campus locations, and almost 40,000 students. We were ranked fourth in Canada and 110th in the world, according to the 2022 Quacquerelli Symonds (QS) global university rankings, a 16-place jump from 2021. We currently have 41 3M National Teaching Fellows, seven of whom are from the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, including Dr. Vijay Daniels, Assistant Dean, Assessment in the MD Program who was awarded a fellowship in 2022.
The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry has 21 departments, two stand-alone divisions, and seven research institutes. It is ranked among the top 100 in the world in the area of medicine/clinical health and in 2022 was ranked 75th globally by Times Higher Education’s world university rankings in the area of clinical and health. We are home to 1,056 undergraduate students, 576 graduate students, more than 1,000 medical residents, and 100 postdoctoral fellows. We have more than 650 academic faculty and approximately 2,500 clinical faculty members who teach students in hospitals, clinics, and private practices.
As a research-intensive faculty, we are home to internationally renowned researchers in many areas, including diabetes, obesity, virology, cardiology, cancer, transplantation, and spinal cord injury. In 2021, the faculty generated $166.4 million in research funding. In 2020, Dr. Michael Houghton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for co-discovering the Hepatitis C virus.