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Hey,
I'm still a teenager but it appears as though I may be stuck here in Saskatoon for my undergrad (if I go, I'd have to pay my own way PLUS living expenses) at the U of Saskatchewan. I want to study political science, french, and perhaps economics, too. Is there anything good about this university for those subjects? Like, I know this place is good for life sciences, agriculture, and vetrinary, but I'm not sure about social sciences and humanities.
P.S. If this truly would be not good for me (I have high aspirations in poli sci, and I wanna go for a PhD), I might just have to go to U of Toronto where I have family and I understand it is MUCH better.
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electionbuddy wrote:Hey,
I'm still a teenager but it appears as though I may be stuck here in Saskatoon for my undergrad (if I go, I'd have to pay my own way PLUS living expenses) at the U of Saskatchewan. I want to study political science, french, and perhaps economics, too. Is there anything good about this university for those subjects? Like, I know this place is good for life sciences, agriculture, and vetrinary, but I'm not sure about social sciences and humanities.
P.S. If this truly would be not good for me (I have high aspirations in poli sci, and I wanna go for a PhD), I might just have to go to U of Toronto where I have family and I understand it is MUCH better. No school is 'known' for social sciences/humanities. These faculties don't bring in a lot of revenue for universites so they rarely pump money into them to ensure they have an excellent reputation. You'll be fine wherever you go. Since you want to go to graduate school it would probably be better to stay at a lower tier school for your undergrad to make sure you get good grades and can make connections with the professors. You'll need both of these to get into graduate school. Going to U of T would be great for your M.A or ph.D but you won't make the connections you need during undergrad if you go there. Go wherever is cheaper. A M.A and ph.D will cost you a fortune in living expenses and tuition as well if you're not covered by scholarship. You should leave the travelling around to when you're doing those graduate degrees, when it really matters where you go. You should go to a smaller but still well known school where you can network with profs to get a good recommendation and maybe get in on their research. This will help you get into the best grad schools for poli sci/whatever you decide.  P.S yeah poli sci
1 We are from Mac! 2 A little bit louder! 3 I still can't hear you! 4 more more more... McMaster Class of 2011
Combined Honours Political Science and Philosophy
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BEST BUSINESS SCHOOL - Probably Western, but for MBA the more prestigious universities seem to have good programs, judging from the BusinessWeek rankings at least. (York, UoT, Concordia, HEC, McGill and the list goes on...)
BEST HEALTH/ SCIENCE SCHOOL - McGill, without a doubt! Many world famous health institutes (MNI, Meakins Christie, Center for research on Pain), all the peer based rankings, in fact the latest from American and Canadian Med Associations gave McGill highest distinction in all fields (the only one in Canada to acheive this) and ranked it as top 10 in the world, in a peer-based review. Amazing faculty! McGill is the most reputed in this area by a mile, but I'd say McMaster is building a pretty decent program, although med remains fairly easy to get into (as some of u will be quick to point out), like UBC (vs. UoT or McGill), but they're doing pretty well in the area of research. And there's some nice research coming out of Calgary and Alberta too. Again this is a category that UoT also delivers in, you can't go wrong in any field with the big three.
BEST TECH INSTITUTE/ SCHOOL Waterloo (UoT, McGill, UBC are always good, add McMaster to the list. And I've seen nice things from Universite de Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique which is the best funded of all the mentioned schools)
BEST UNIVERISTY CAMPUS I guess Queens, I visited, there are some nice buildings. I don't think very highly of McGill or UoTs campus, Canada doesn't have very nice campuses. Some people claim that UBC has a pretty nice campus, unfortunately I have never been)
BEST SPORTS FOCUSED SCHOOLS hmmm this is a tricky one, not a great category for Canadian universities but I'd go for definitely Guelph, and also Laval. Laval does pretty well generally in the interuniversity sport category and I doubt very many Canadian universities have the sporting facilities it has. The university hosts many major athletic events.
BEST RELIGEOUS CONSIDERATE SCHOOLS Carleton
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Student make the best SCHOOL
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YORK; Honors Arts - History Major/German minor? '12
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Something I'm curious about: Where is the best visual arts program? Where can you even study that besides at OCAD?
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electionbuddy wrote:Hey,
I'm still a teenager but it appears as though I may be stuck here in Saskatoon for my undergrad (if I go, I'd have to pay my own way PLUS living expenses) at the U of Saskatchewan. I want to study political science, french, and perhaps economics, too. Is there anything good about this university for those subjects? Like, I know this place is good for life sciences, agriculture, and vetrinary, but I'm not sure about social sciences and humanities.
P.S. If this truly would be not good for me (I have high aspirations in poli sci, and I wanna go for a PhD), I might just have to go to U of Toronto where I have family and I understand it is MUCH better. The decision to so a PhD is a life changing one and requires an immense amount of dedication and commitment to yourself and furthering the academy. I would urge you to study what you find most interesting and see where that leads you. Be careful and note that a PhD is not simply a a continuation of undergrad/Masters but more like an apprenticeship, the PhD school is making an investment in you and you choose a mentor who can help guide you in your academic endeavors.
BAH '08 (Queen's) MA'11 (Queen's)
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Business: Businessweek has put Queen's at the Top of the foreign MBA rankings for a couple years now.
Science: McGill, no contest.
Tech school: I don't know enough to say for sure.
Best Campus: Queen's. Honorable mention to U of T St. George. (And yes, I've been to McGill and UBC, but they don't really compare).
Best sports school: I don't know enough to say for sure.
Most religiously considerate: Isn't that every school?????
BAH '08 (Queen's) MA'11 (Queen's)
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