本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛The 2014-2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed York 226-250th in the world, placing 9-15th in Canada.[31] The 2014 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 421-430th in the world.[36] According to the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) rankings, the university ranked 401-500th in the world.[28] In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked York 9th in their 2014 comprehensive university rankings.[35] The Higher Education Strategy Associates ranked York 8th nationally in Social Sciences and Humanities.[37]

Several of York's programs had also gained notable recognition both nationally and internationally. In the QS World University Rankings 2013 ranking of history departments, York was place thirty-third in the world, and third in Canada.[38] In the Corporate Knights 2011 ranking of teacher-education programs in Canada, York had placed fifth.[39] York's Osgoode Hall Law School ranked second in Canada, in Maclean's 2012 ranking of Canadian common law schools.[40] In the Corporate Knights ranking of law programs in Canada, Osgoode Hall had also placed second.[41] In the QS ranking of law programs, York had placed 42nd in the world, and fifth in Canada.[42]

The Schulich School of Business had also gained national and international accolades. In the Corporate Knights 2011 rankings of MBA programs in Canada, the school had placed first.[41] In the same year, the Corporate Knights had also ranked the school third in Canada for undergraduate business programs. In Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2011 rankings of MBA programs, York had placed second in the world, and first in Canada.[43] In Bloomberg Businessweek's 2010 rankings of the best business schools outside the United States, Schulich had ranked seventh, the second highest of any Canadian business school.[44] In Forbes 2010 rankings of the best two-year MBA program outside the United States, Schulich had ranked 10th in the world, the highest out of any Canadian business school.[45] In CNN Expansion's ranking of MBA programs, the school had ranked 18th in the world, placing first in Canada.[46] In the Financial Times 2011 ranking of MBA programs, Schulich had ranked 49th in the world, and third in Canada.[47] In The Economist's 2011 full-time MBA rankings, Schulich had ranked ninth in the world, and first in Canada更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

York has educated some of the current and past directors and CEOs of Canada's major banks (Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal), the largest and most prominent media networks in Canada (CTV Television Network, Rogers Communications, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), and numerous judges, diplomats, and senior politicians including a former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada, the Minister of Finance of Canada and the former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. Astronaut Steve MacLean was educated at York University in the physics department and later taught there before going to work at Stanford University.