COLLEGE NAMED ONE OF CANADA’S TOP 50 RESEARCH COLLEGES

Lakeland College ranks 33rd overall on Canada’s Top 50 Research Colleges list in the 2022 rankings compiled by Research InfoSource Inc.

InfoSource Inc. surveyed post-secondary institutions across Canada, analyzing research income, funding and partnerships, as well as the number of faculty and students involved in research in 2020-21.

Lakeland sits in second place in the annual survey for college research income growth. In 2020-21, Lakeland’s research income grew 251.8 per cent.

Lakeland ranks 19th in the survey in the area of college research intensity funding per researcher.

During the 2020-21 fiscal year, Lakeland secured $3.05 million in total sponsored research income, collaborating with a range of government, industry and post-secondary partners to continue to advance real-world agricultural productivity and sustainability in key commercial crop and livestock species, as well as agriculture technology.