<p>Hey!</p>
<p>So from these colleges:
- UW Madison
- U of Toronto
- McGill University
- UBC
- George Washington University
- UIUC</p>
<p>Which college has the better reputation (in the US and internationally)?
Which college is worth the money?
- I know that GWU is super expensive but the other colleges are typically cheaper than the average american college.
I'm interested in majoring in:
- Business
- International Relations
- Education</p>
<p>You need to be speaking with potential employers to find out which of these are more likely to help you land a job. If you are an international applicant, I would recommend the Canadian Us over the US Us because they almost certainly will be less expensive, and Canadian immigration policies are more rational than US immigration policies so it will be easier for you to find and hold student jobs and internships, and it will be easier to get a permanent job there after graduation.</p>
<p>All that said, since you haven’t even applied yet, there is no telling where you will be admitted, and whether any of them will be affordable. So questions of “better” may be entirely moot.</p>
<p>To even a sophisticated US employer the 3 Canadian colleges are not especially well known. If however I had to order them, McGill would come out on top. The challenge for the US employer is that it is unlikely that he would have hired new graduates from any of these universities and that consequently he would be obliged to decide on a vague “reputation” basis. For applicants who are already established in their field the undergraduate college matters less in hiring decisions and the specific university is unlikely to influence a hiring decision.</p>
<p>Both University of Wisconsin – Madison and University of Illinois – UC are well known and well regarded everywhere in the United States. My sense is that George Washington University is well known and well regarded in some parts of the country.</p>
<p>I mean all these in the undergraduate sense…not applying for a job…I’m a senior in high school. I just want to know how these schools compare within the boundaries of the majors I’m interested in, and maybe which has the edge in whatever category.</p>
<p>The two previous posters understand that. You will be applying for a job after your undergraduate years at any of these or other colleges. However, they have provided you with information you should be aware of.</p>
<p>To some degree, the best one is the one to which you are admitted. Without knowing your stats, it’s best as a general rule not to get overly attached to any one university until after you know you are admitted. Choose schools you think you could be happy in, then pick and choose based on finer points later.</p>
<p>“To even a sophisticated US employer the 3 Canadian colleges are not especially well known.”
I disagree. Those are the top 3 Canadian schools and TNCs/multinational companies or any company that hires internationally would be well aware of them.
However OP if you have a Canadian degree first you’ll need to establish residency in Canada and work then, THEN if you wish could you try and find a job in the US.
Outside these three, GWU has an edge for international relations.
UW-Madison and UIUC are both extremely expensive for public universities. Both are good for education and business but essentially you’d be certified to teach in their respective states so think carefully. For education you can look into the exit test passing rates. WI has a governor that is slashing education and local budgets are suffering so hiring mustn’t be all that great. Check into the current state of IL for education expenses. Remember that as a teacher you’d likely have to work in impoverished/difficult schools that have trouble hiring, although you may prove interesting to some charters. As for business, I don’t know of international students with a simple business BS who can easily get hired in the US unless they have very in-demand skills.</p>
<p>I currently go to McGill university and this past weekend and last couple days I have seen hordes of new students from the US who have just arrived going on tours. I even overheard one tour guide ask where the all her group had come from and all but one said the they were from the States. </p>
<p>If McGill is so well known by 18 year old American kids that so many of them would choose to go to school here, you would think that seasoned employers who have seen hundreds if not thousands of resumes would recognize the school.</p>
<p>the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia may not have as many American students as McGill but their strong international academic reputation (at least least on par with the American schools mentioned) would definitely</p>
<p>These three Canadian schools have 3 of the consensus top 6 business schools in Canada (Queens, York and Western Ontario being the others). Of the three I would say UofT’s Rotman School of Management might have a slight edge in prestige.</p>
<p>I have heard excellent things about McGill’s international relations program, and the city of Montreal is also an excellent city for opportunities in this field. IT is obviously not DC, but there is a significant international presence in the city, such as the world headquarters of the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization.</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Also to be clear on the whole job thing…I’m Korean so I might come back to Korea for a job…so maybe a more internationally known college is better?</p>
<p>I’ll probably head to graduate school after undergrad anyways…</p>