Along with Concordia University, Carleton is the best university in Canada in terms of having good class sizes, according to the Globe and Mail’s 2012 annual university rankings report, released Oct. 25.
The report is compiled from the opinions of 33,000 Canadian undergraduate students from 60 campuses. It gave Carleton a B+ in class size — the same grade as Concordia.
But Carleton president Roseann Runte said class size isn’t indicative of a good teaching record.
“Good teaching is not about class size,” Runte said in an email. “It is about great professors and students who participate.”
Carleton scored poorly with a B- in reputation with employers, but Runte said that’s changing.
“We have more than doubled our options for co-op and we work hard to bring job fairs and employers to campus,” she said, adding the results may not be accurate.
“Another survey, [the National Survey of Student Engagement], I believe, showed that 98-99 per cent of our students employed after graduation,” she said.
The Globe and Mail asked students to rate their university in a number of different categories, including quality of teaching and learning, instructors teaching style, work and play balance and city satisfaction.
