<p>Which has a better engineering program Queen's or McGill ?</p>
<p>Based entirely on the subjective fact that I, as an American, have heard of McGill and heard great things about it’s engineering program but nothing about Queen’s, I would say McGill is likely better. Perhaps a Canadian can offer a more objective opinion?</p>
<p>McGill, then get your MBA at Queen’s.</p>
<p>Nice city, sick night life, hot french girls, 18 year old drinking age.</p>
<p>What kind of engineering?</p>
<p>They’re both well rated schools, but both seem to offer relatively basic co-op work possibilities and inflexible schedules (i.e. few or no summer classes, this can waste a huge amount of your time).</p>
<p>My suggestion:</p>
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<li>Compare the class requirements side-by-side for the engineering major you want.</li>
<li>Look up the size of the department, number of profs, look at some of their web pages, etc. Try to get an idea for how much funding and enthusiasm there is in the department.</li>
<li>Check out what co-op / work placement / career center options both schools have. I can tell you from personal experience McGill engineering career center is alright, but nothing amazing.</li>
<li>Figure out if you want to live in Kingston or Montreal, huge difference.</li>
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<p>Also consider the language issues. If you hope to get a job after graduating, you <em>must</em> have co-op or internship experience, add a summer of research too if you want to be well placed for graduate school.</p>
<p>For Chemical Engineering, and well I think Kingston will suit me a little bit more since it is far from all distractions. As for class size and professor-student relation well Queen’s is clearly better in that while big classes are huge.</p>
<p>Class sizes are quite program dependent.</p>
<p>Try to look up the actual enrollment figures from past semesters for relevant courses. This is a good idea in general, as universities tend to list tons of courses in their calendars which may be offered once very two years or not at all. McGill has some huge classes in some programs (biology for example) and small ones in others (computer science for example).</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about chemical engineering unfortunately, but my generic advice is that the quality of your education will be very similar at both schools. So tuition, cost of living, city, should all be equally important when choosing.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>