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Adu
Posted: March 6, 2009 11:45:33 AM

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to be honest i dont care if the education is the same ,i would go the to most prestigious anyway because you go into with job market with a good name to bakc you up, when your all they same theoretically then the name of you alma mater will get you ahead, assuming that everyone is on a leval playing feild. for the stupid, im making assumptions, this isnt the case in real life because there are many other facts affecting how you get a job.

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
Hcheg
Posted: March 6, 2009 12:51:33 PM
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wayfarer wrote:
Not gonna lie, I've never heard of anyone who's attended the U of Manitoba. Heh.

Calgary seems like a good choice.



Perhaps you should hear of Marshall McLuhan then..
flyzeggs
Posted: April 21, 2009 3:35:25 PM
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For undergrad Queen's, UWO, McGill (in order)

For grad McGill, UofT, UBC (depends on the program)

Underrated: Lakehead, Brock and Bishop's
dark.avalon
Posted: May 3, 2009 5:06:47 PM
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wayfarer wrote:
Not gonna lie, I've never heard of anyone who's attended the U of Manitoba. Heh.

Calgary seems like a good choice.


Calgary is amusing. They give presentations to High School students who are taught to dislike their city. Even more entertaining is the fact that you go to Calgary and everyone will be fricking high when talking about going there...

Meh.
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Savon
Posted: May 4, 2009 6:30:50 PM
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According to rankings...
1. U of T
2. UBC
3. McGill

According to me:
1. UBC
2. ???

I've attended UBC only so I can't really say XD

UBC Science '10
clochesjerusalem
Posted: May 4, 2009 8:33:34 PM

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wayfarer wrote:
For those Western Canadian Universities:

1. UBC
2. U of A
3...

What you put in #3?
-Calgary?
-Saskatchewan?
-Victoria?
-Manitoba?

i would say uSask... its an amazin uni. dad's friend went there and said it was amazin.
my cousin goes to uManitoba (yes, we are from Manitoba but I live in ON atm). she sayz she loves it there, and might stay on to do her masters there. the campus is amazin, the profs are friendly e.t.c.


Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas


Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
soccerchamp17
Posted: May 5, 2009 2:10:10 AM
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08 World Rankings (All programs factored in)

1.) U OF T
ARWU WORLD - 24
THES WORLD - 41
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 18
Avg: 28


2.) UBC
ARWU WORLD - 35
THES WORLD - 34
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 31
Avg: 33



3.) MCGILL
ARWU WORLD - 60
THES WORLD - 20
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 42
Avg: 41



4.) ALBERTA
ARWU WORLD - 125
THES WORLD - 74
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 55
Avg: 85



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alberta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcgill_University

djiverson466
Posted: May 5, 2009 11:19:12 AM

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mynameismattgotmlgo wrote:
^ WTF makes one program better than another anyway? Because the professors are the best of the best in their fields of research?

I think it is almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the smartest high school students go to the most "well-known" programs and receive roughly the same quality of education as everyone else, but they come out ahead of everyone else because they were the smartest students to begin with.
^THAT
Ruthless4Life
Posted: May 13, 2009 12:54:46 PM

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According to research rankings,

1. UofT
2. UBC
3. McGill

But when it comes to "comprehensive" rankings, it could be anything because criteria becomes much more "subjective." But for undergrads, it doesn't really matter too much. The only difference is the brandname of your degree. But brandname is still psychologically important.
BrackenClelk
Posted: May 13, 2009 3:17:43 PM

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In the workplace, experience is more important than your alma mater. So unless we consider co-op, university prestige alone is negligible.



The Bracken.

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kk
Posted: May 13, 2009 5:54:26 PM

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UofT, McGill, UBC. <- best overall in terms of all their programs.

McMaster Health Sci 2013
accepted: mac healthsci, uoft engsci, waterloo math/ca, uoft life sci
synecdoche.etc
Posted: May 13, 2009 6:18:50 PM

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wayfarer wrote:
For those Western Canadian Universities:

1. UBC
2. U of A
3...

What you put in #3?
-Calgary?
-Saskatchewan?
-Victoria?
-Manitoba?


Not saying it should be number 3, but don't forget about SFU!

I can tell you a large number of places it is not though - Vancouver Island University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Capilano University, Thompson Rivers University, Royal Roads University, Quest University (although it's only a year old in any form, so it deserves some slack). I'm also pretty sure that it isn't UBC Okanagan, Trinity Western University, or UNBC. I'm sure there are many more similarily unlikely universities.

Corpus Christi College in first year
UBC transfer for second year
Poli Sci / International Relations (hopefully)
soccerchamp17
Posted: May 13, 2009 6:59:57 PM
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08 World Rankings (All programs factored in)

1.) U OF T
ARWU WORLD - 24
THES WORLD - 41
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 18
Avg: 28


2.) UBC
ARWU WORLD - 35
THES WORLD - 34
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 31
Avg: 33



3.) MCGILL
ARWU WORLD - 60
THES WORLD - 20
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 42
Avg: 41



4.) ALBERTA
ARWU WORLD - 125
THES WORLD - 74
NEWSWEEK (2006) - 55
Avg: 85



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alberta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcgill_University

/thread
Sesphen
Posted: May 14, 2009 2:06:41 AM

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Location: Ottawa, ON
1.UofT
2.Queens
3.McGill
4.UBC
5.Alberta
6.McMaster
7.Ottawa
8.Nontreal
9.Waterloo
10.Calgary
soccerchamp17
Posted: May 14, 2009 2:29:20 AM
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^

Lol Queen's doesn't crack the top 200 of any world rankings. Neither do any of the others after Alberta except Waterloo.
tribesdude
Posted: May 14, 2009 4:15:06 AM
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Although what you say is true for Overall rankings (for Queens), it in fact is one of the top Business Schools in the world, so although overall it is not as good as many Universities, its business program certainly is, hell in fact it was ranked internationally as the #1 MBA by Business Week I believe.
But anyway, yeah UofT, UBC and McGill are all overall better Universities than the other Canadian ones, at least based on rankings, all 3 of them consistently rank top 50 in the world.

On a side note, damn this forum favors Ontario schools quite a bit...
Sesphen
Posted: May 14, 2009 1:27:42 PM

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soccerchamp17 wrote:
^

Lol Queen's doesn't crack the top 200 of any world rankings. Neither do any of the others after Alberta except Waterloo.


Queens is very good. I will never consider some rankings like Times Higher crap Ranking. Queens Commerce undergraduates got the highest employ rate in the last year.
tribesdude
Posted: May 15, 2009 9:50:39 AM
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Sesphen wrote:
soccerchamp17 wrote:
^

Lol Queen's doesn't crack the top 200 of any world rankings. Neither do any of the others after Alberta except Waterloo.


Queens is very good. I will never consider some rankings like Times Higher crap Ranking. Queens Commerce undergraduates got the highest employ rate in the last year.


Thing is, it does not really matter if you consider it or not, but fact of the matter is, Queens fares fairly poorly in the overall University rankings, and hell this is coming from someone who wants to go to Queens Commerce (I Have yet to receive a reply, although a different program at Queens admitted me already, but it simply is not a program I want to do anymore)) but Queens is not a school that is recognized widely Internationally, it is a great school within Canada, and it does have the best Business Program/MBA (if you ignore the American Universities, at least according to BW), but overall it is not a top 100 school in the world. Schools such as McGill, UBC, and UofT are considerably better overall (which can be seen from the fact that UofT is ranked 2x and UBC is ranked 3x and McGill is ranked 4x (although in the rankings I have seen McGill is the one school that Jumps around a lot, sometimes its 2x, sometimes as low as 6x).



woosung91
Posted: May 15, 2009 7:59:22 PM

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Location: Toronto
1. U of T
2. McGil
3. Queens
4. UBC
5. Mcmaster/ Alberta/

University of Toronto Political Science 13 at New College
escru
Posted: May 15, 2009 11:03:28 PM

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Location: canada
1.rendeer
2.Safe
3.roll eyes
4.salut
5.santa


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