Canadian living in the US, I am an college student and I plan to apply to UH,UT,TAMU. I am not sure if I should apply to universities in Canada? And if not which university to go to if I get accepted to all 3. I am majoring in business.
@APA212 Your cost of attendance at Canadian schools would be about 60-70% of the instate cost of the universities on your list. That’s not including financial assistance of the last province (if any) that you lived in.
The main question you should think about is where do you want to live? Job prospects in Texas and probably the US would be better at one of the 3 universities. Job prospects in Canada would be better coming from a Canadian university.
Let’s say i finish my BBA in an American University then i decide to get my MBA from Canada and then start working in Canada… Would that also be better? I heard that usually Canadian living in Canada get their BBA from Canada then go to the US to get their MBAs. I don’t want to be well i wouldn’t say the odd one out… i would say like the one who got her MBA from Canada… My friends say that i should get my BBA from Canada then come back and get my MBA from the US… i really feel lost. Thanks for answering though. 
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If you are a Canadian citizen living in the US, then the cost of university will usually be substantially lower in Canada. This is probably true for both undergraduate and graduate school. An exception might occur if you are lucky enough to get a large or full scholarship at a US university. In many cases for someone with dual citizenship who is resident in the US, even their local in-state university will cost more than comparable universities in Canada (unless going to your in-state university allows you to live at home, and save room and board costs).
Also, if you want to end up working in Canada, then you probably want to get at least one of your degrees in Canada. If you get your last degree in Canada, then you will have the opportunity to talk to recruiters on campus, and also have the opportunity to interview at any company which happens to be convenient to where you are living while getting your last degree. I think that many people tend to get their first degree closer to home, and often travel further for graduate degrees. However, this is a personal choice IMHO.
In terms of which universities to apply to in Canada, this is a hard question to answer. Canada is a very big country, with a lot of very good universities. Some (such as McGill, Toronto, and UBC) are academically very challenging, academically very good, and difficult to get into. In order to suggest any particular universities, we would need to know approximately what your GPA is, and where in Canada you are interested in. Most universities in Canada teach in English, but there is at least one which is bilingual and a few universities that teach in French. As you might guess most of the French universities are in Quebec, but not all of them.
Generally grades seem to be lower at universities in Canada, compared to what the same students would get doing academically equal work at academically comparable universities in the US. I don’t think that this matters much since, for example, admissions staff at other universities seem to understand this.
If you are starting undergrad in September, and haven’t applied anywhere in Canada yet, then you are probably already pretty much on the course to take undergrad in the US and graduate school where ever you want, which could optionally be in Canada.
One place to look is the Maclean’s university rankings. In general university rankings should be taken with some skepticism, but the Maclean’s rankings at least are mostly not all that far off from what I have heard (I have wondered whether they under-rank the French language universities, but if you don’t speak French this won’t be an issue for you personally).
Don’t forget York or Western Ontario for Business. Western Business, especially, has had a great rep for a long time.
Maclean’s rankings can give you a general idea of what’s what, but don’t take them as gospel.
“but don’t take them as gospel”
True. Even more true when you are looking for a university with a specific specialty.