Maclean's is a major Canadian mass-circulation magazine, with emphasis on Canadian and, secondarily, U.S. and North American content. In its issue of 24 November 1997, Maclean's (MM) published its seventh annual rankings of Canadian universities. Perhaps because of the increased popularity of notions such as cost effectiveness, efficiency, and value for one's educational dollar, the rating or of universities has become an increasingly popular exercise in higher education. In this spirit, the expressed intention of the Maclean's venture was to take the measure of Canadian universities by creating a ranking road map for purposes of assisting students. For 1997, MM again converted preliminary raw data and information, across several indices, to ranks (first, second, etc.), derived from these an overall rank for each university, and then from these finally constructed a linear rank ordering of all universities. This research note presents analysis of several statistical and related aspects of the 1997 rankings.