By Christopher Cotton, Queen’s University

Last night, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America. Half of the US is excited. The other half scared. Over the last 12 hours, there has been a spike in internet searches for “move to Canada” and the Canadian immigration website crashed.

What better time to release a new ranking of North American universities.

Top 10 most-desirable North American Universities as of November 9, 2016

1	McGill University	Montreal, QC	Canada
2	University of British Columbia	Vancouver, BC	Canada
3	University of Toronto	Toronto, ON	Canada
4	Queen’s University	Kingston, ON	Canada
5	Simon Fraser University	Burnaby, BC	Canada
6	Dalhousie University	Halifax, NS	Canada
7	University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	United States
8	Columbia University	New York, NY	United States
9	University of Waterloo	Waterloo, ON	Canada
10	Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	United States

Methodology: The tongue-in-cheek ranking is based on a very unscientific weighted average of academic quality, current faculty satisfaction with their university and its location, gut feeling, a limited knowledge of quality of life across cities in the sample, and an estimate of how badly faculty from other institutions would like to move there based on internet searches and immigration site web traffic over the last 12 hours (as of 8:00 am on November 9th).