UT and Waterloo VS Duke

WorkerBee
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:46:22 +0000

I am an UofT EE alumni and my S is accepted to Duke and UofT with UofT Scholar award.
We just visited Duke a few days ago. I don’t think that Duke’s Engineering is better than UofT except for BME with pre-med track. Duke has very good pre-med advising and study abroad program. UofT engineering program is quite heavy in the past. Duke only requires 34 courses for graduation while UofT, 20 years ago, required 48 courses. My S decided to attend Duke. For him, the cost difference between UofT and Duke is around 10K/year. My S has dual citizenships so that he can get good FA from Duke.

IMO, Duke engineering is not worth extra 40K/year. Save your money for graduate school. Good students from UofT or UofW have no problem getting in US graduate schools.