<p>1- McGill CLEARLY has the best international reputation of any Canadian university. U of Toronto has as good a rep within canada, and a better rep in Ontario but not so outside of ontario. McG attracts the highest caliber foreign students from everywhere. Great faculty. Nice size, not too big or small (21,000). Pedestrian campus and city. Live nearby or a few subway stops away. Toronto is enormous, like Ohio state or Texas, 63,000 students!</p>
<p>2- McGill has a great campus, in a fantastic location, right in the heart of Montreal, but next to the Mount Royal park and the most expensive residential area in town to the west (Golden Square Mile), with the lively student “ghetto” to the east, downtown Montreal to the south, with great shops and restaurants, and the “Main” area further east with great bars, clubs, late night grub and the best nightlife in North America (drinking age is 18 and bars stay open till 3am). Maybe 100 bars and clubs within a mile of campus…</p>
<p>3-Montreal is more fun and cheaper than Toronto. Toronto is closer to a midwestern big city, while Montreal is like a small safe cheaper bilingual New York City. Great food too. Great cultural scene (arts, music, literature,…)</p>
<p>4-Nice activities around Montreal: skiing/snowboarding 50 minutes from campus, with lit slopes open till 11pm. Finish classes at 5pm, on the slopes at 6:30pm, back in the clubs downtown at midnight, dinner/breakfast at 3:30am. Nowhere else you could do that.</p>
<p>5-Montreal has the best looking women in North America.</p>
<p>Bumping this thread before it slides back into the abyss, in hopes of getting any response to my question (above) about Canadian colleges that have strong English Lit/Writing programs.</p>
<p>I’m also looking for ideas for noteworthy Canadian LAC’s…? Or a good online info source–perhaps a Canadian counterpart to CC?</p>
<p>^Thank you very much for the link! I did do a search on “Canadian colleges”, which unearthed this thread that we’re in now, but somehow I missed the thread that you linked to. Thanks again.</p>
<p>This is a good website. You can see where Canadian and British schools fall relative to the American ones you know. This table shows Arts & Humanities, but you can choose other domains as well.</p>
<p>What about the University of Guelph? My daughter wants to attend. She likes their horticulture/agriculture program. We are from the states. We live in Illinois </p>
<p>How is financial aid in Canadian Universities because we can’t afford to pay for college tuition</p>
<p>Or would she be better off sticking with the schools in Illinois?</p>
<p>Nothing compared to private schools and other out-of-state schools, but most Canadian universities charge around US$15000 for each year of school. Not cheap, but not overly expensive either.</p>
<p>umm…have u guys checked the website ‘<a href=“http://www.canadianivy.ca/”>http://www.canadianivy.ca/</a>’. Clearly not, coz McGill is not a part of the ‘Canadian Ivy League’. I go to UBC and it is amazing, and it is one of the top 3 in Canada, so all the McGill worshippers need to rethink what they are saying. People who are considering going to University in Canada…this webpage is the best resource to decide where to go.</p>
<p>The Canadian Ivy website is a marketing campaign that is used by UBC and UofT to attract American students. It’s not a guide of Canadian universities and this “resource” merely directs you to the UBC or UofT websites. In fact, at one point McGill and Queen’s were part of this campaign:</p>
<p>“[…] McGill University in Montreal and three other Canadian universities marketed as Canadian Ivy: the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University.”</p>
<p>Both McGill and Queen’s are no longer part of the “Canadian Ivy” campaign, probably because the campaign didn’t yield any significant increase in American applications for the universities.</p>
<p>Oh and by the way… the latest Maclean’s university rankings are as follows:
<p>Toronto slipped because it’s boycotting the rankings and no longer provides data to macleans. macleans uses out of date data to rank U of T now. Remember U of T was number one for 14 year consecutively until they decided to boycott.</p>
<p>Guelph is a good school. Canada has no bad ones really. Guelph is attracting a lot of american’s lately. the community is nice and safe and she will find lots of winter activies like Darmouth students would. As for specific programs you would have to do some more digging.</p>
<p>well academically (for undergrad) mcgill is harder to get into, this year you basically needed 89 average for arts (i know people with 87 and 88 who didn’t get in) and toronto the average was a bit lower i’m not sure what though. However both have really strong international reputations. Toronto because of its size and what not has a slightly bigger international reputation, particularily because there is a large number of asian people who attend. Mcgill is still really well known to anybody who it may actually matter to. If heard pros and cons for both university as well as good and not so good experiences. I suppose it’s all a matter of personal taste and which program you’re in.I got into both and am having a tough time deciding which. I’m in montreal right now visiting and it’s a great city, toronto is great too though and they’re quite similar. The main difference is montreal is totally bilingual and a bit more of a european atmosphere (plus an 18 drinking age). The language makes no difference to me either, because i am completely bilingual.</p>
<p>they’re both very good buisiness school, i think queens has a better international reputation for business. However i know someone who graduated from UBC buisiness and is now a multimillionaire…can’t complain</p>