<p>score911, I’ve lived in Toronto for much of my adult life, nearly 30 years. I can assure you that most in the academic world in Canada; in much of the business world - banking/financial/investment; in the legal community; in the medical community; etc. feel that U of T is Canada’s top university for the reasons I detailed in my earlier post on this thread. You have to look at the university as a whole, not just one or two programs. McGill may be more popular with American students, especially those in the northeast, due to proximity but it has had a period of many years now where it is seriously underfunded by the province of Quebec, and that financial neglect is evident in many ways at the university. I have several friends who are professors there and my Ds have friends who go to school there. As I said, you will get a good education at either one but there are differences in reputation.</p>