Sheridan tops 2025 Animation Career Review rankings in Canada

Jul 4, 2025

A purple background with the words 2025 14th Annual Animation Rankings and a fuzzy, blue pompom with googly eyes.For the seventh straight year, Sheridan is the top animation college in Canada according to Animation Career Review’s annual rankings.

Sheridan also placed second in Animation Career Review’s 2025 rankings of the top 50 international animation schools and colleges (excluding schools from the United States), behind only Gobelins in Paris, France. Nearly 200 schools from around the world were considered as part of the rankings.

This marks the fifth straight time Sheridan has ranked second in the international category, and the seventh consecutive year it has placed in the top two. Sheridan was one of only two Canadian schools to make the 2025 top 10. Sheridan also claimed the top spot in Ontario and across Canada, affirming its reputation as a global leader in animation education.

As Canada’s largest arts school, Sheridan offers a competitive Honours Bachelor of Animation degree – a four-year, hands-on program that emphasizes classical principles of animation in a variety of forms, including 2D digital, 3D and stop motion as well as a post-graduate certificate in visual effects

Graduates of Sheridan’s animation programs regularly go on to work with globally renowned studios such as Disney, Pixar, Nelvana, Sony Pictures Animation, Guru Studio, Atomic Cartoons, Wildbrain and House of Cool.