dmndrake

Or I was annoyed by your passive-aggressiveness. You'll make a fine poli-sci.

HieronymusBosch

I'm on this site predominantly to procrastinate. Half the fun comes from passive-aggressiveness (other half, of course, from genuine pleasure in assisting others, despite what you may believe ) And I shall be interpreting that last comment charitably.

curiouscanadian5

I think everyone has generally said the same thing but UBC is definitely the way to go. While they are both GREAT college atmospheres (I have friends who went to both), UBC is way more internationally recognized as a great school. Everyone in my community certainly considers it a great accomplishment to get accepted to UBC and I live in a very wealthy city with very high grade averages.

Taba24

Hi there.
I am going through the same problem.
I have been accepted in ubc in ab economics and at western in financial economics, but I am unable to choose one out of them.
I want to go to western because of its campus life and that there I can get involved and put something on my resume. The only thing pulling me to ubc is its ranking. I personally think that only ranking doesn't matter and as long as you are not a whole package no employer will have you.
Which university do you guys think would help me land a good job lets say in us or London and will later help me get into a good grad school. I want to go into banking after my undergrad.
I am good at studies and at York I had an avg of 88% in my first year so studying is not a problem for me. The only problem is I cannot study at all if I don't have enough friends around me to spend time with them when I am free. I get depressed when lonely. I already have friends at western whereas at ubc I don't know anyone and was not given a place on campus so will have to rent an apartment off campus.

Kindly help me decide if I should go to ubc just because of its ranking or should I take into consideration all other aspect of uni life too.

Plus it would be very helpful if you could outline if we can work in public/private econ sector with a Econ degree(undergrad) or is masters compulsory.

Taba24

My parents think I should go to ubc considering its ranking but after going through your experience at the university I am having doubts over it

starbright

It really doesn't matter. It's only undergrad. Both of these schools will offer basically the exact same 'education' with the same 'future': you have profs from the same backgrounds, using the same 'methodology' (the exception is the business school where one is more case based than the other), the same text books, faculty coauthor and go to the same conferences, etc. etc. There are similar class sizes, majors etc. Sure one is more highly ranked than the other in terms of research recognition, but for undergrad, it really will not make any difference.

Go with the one that has a culture that works for you- be it student body, specific types of majors, location.

I speak as a Canadian professor and researcher.