<p>in terms of rep, ranking, quality, etc. it's a publicly funded school for starters. i doubt i would compare mcgill with uc berkley, but umich may be a bit more realistic.</p>
<p>Think a little lower--McGill is not that great--good but not great.</p>
<p>McGill is more like NYU than Michigan.</p>
<p>"Think a little lower--McGill is not that great--good but not great."</p>
<p>"McGill is more like NYU than Michigan."</p>
<p>hahaha. It connects?</p>
<p>I think McGill would have been a pretty cool place to attend. In Montreal, not very expensive, pretty good reputation. Granted it may have been a little bit better for me because I would like to work in Canada after graduation.</p>
<p>definitely gonna disagree.
It is on par.
Both are top research Universities in north America.</p>
<p>I would say the top large research Unis in america are</p>
<p>Cal
UMich
UCLA
McGill/ Toronto/ UW Madison</p>
<p>in about that order.</p>
<p>Also, on a global scale, McGill is huge. Very well recognized in all of europe and parts of Asia.
Grad school though, i would say UMICH wins hands down.
I don't think McGill grad is that great at all. But their undergrad is super good and really really intense (gets an A on college Pr0wler.com if that means somethin)</p>
<p>I thought the big all-around 4 for research were Stanford, Harvard, UMich, and Berkeley (this is according to my political modeling prof).</p>
<p>^just in the U.S, probably</p>
<p>BIGTWIX, there are 3 things that hurt McGill's undergraduate students in my opinion:</p>
<p>1) There really isn't much of a cohesive campus environment.
2) Alums are hardly involved and not very loyal.
3) The University is hurting for resources. Tuition is very low so the university has very poor cash flow and its endowment of roughly $730 million (effective June 2006) is on the shallow end compared to larger schools of its class. Just so that you get an idea of McGill's endowment compared to other major universities its size (McGill has 31,000 students, so I figure schools with25,000-40,000 students are comparabe):</p>
<p>University of Michigan $5.7 billion ($140,000/student)
Texas A&M University $5.6 billion ($125,000/student)*
University of Texas-Austin $5.5 billion ($110,000/student)*
University of Virginia $3.6 billion ($170,000/student)
University of California-Berkeley $2.2 billion ($65,000/student)*
University of California-Los Angeles $1.9 billion ($55,000/student)
New York University $1.8 billion ($35,000/student)**
McGill University $730 million ($25,000/student)</p>
<p>One needs to point out that the average tuition at the US universities is significantly higher, so the US schools have much healthier cash flows. </p>
<ul>
<li>Unlike the other elite universities listed above, Those with an * do not have a Medical school and/or hospital, which drain a portion of the endowment, so they can go a little further with their endowments.</li>
</ul>
<p>** Not public, but large and quite similar to many publics.</p>
<p>That said, I definitely love McGill. It is an incredible university with a very strong global brand name. And Montreal is a stunning city. Like I said, given its lack of resources and not-so-cohesive campus environment, I would compare it to NYU.</p>
<p>McGill has less endownment than some of the elite boarding schools in the northeast.</p>
<p>If you really want to work in canada after graduation, mcgill would be a great option. But overall, Umich and mcgill aren't comparable.</p>
<p>No, I don't think McGill is close to either Michigan or NYU. I'd say it's more on the level of UNC Chapel Hill or UW Madison. Which are both really good anyway.</p>