<p>Canadian here! :D</p>
<p>which i should i choose? they are all top notch schools, but michigan costs 4x more than toronto, and they are about the same rank.</p>
<p>help me decide :D</p>
<p>Lol… Canada…</p>
<p>heyheyhey, canada is good</p>
<p>I nvr said it wasn’t, buddy</p>
<p>Toronto at 1/4th the price is a no-brainer…unless your parents are very wealthy, in which case, Michigan will provide you with a more well-rounded undergraduate experience. But the academic quality will be equally good at both schools.</p>
<p>^Paragon, I hail from Canada originally and my son attends U of Mich as an in-state student. He loves it and is in a highly specialized program. Nonetheless, he fully intends to look at top Canadian schools for his masters because for the price and quality in some disciplines they cannot be beat.</p>
<p>As much as I love AA and UMich, I personally would think you were nuts to choose UMich over UT unless you have a very very specific discipline in mind in which UMich was demonstrably better ranked.</p>
<p>PS Alexandre, changed my handle due to some google stalking 
Still me. K.</p>
<p>@kmcmom13</p>
<p>thx for ur input, ya im particularly interested in the combined MBA & Engineering program offered at U of T, which in the end, i shall end up with a MBA & a BSci.</p>
<p>so, i’ll listen to u guys and choose toronto :D</p>
<p>@paragonD6, I’m Canadian too and I would choose U of T engineering over Michigan any day for 1/4 the price. It’s a whole different ball game when you say, for example, Carleton engineering v. Michigan engineering, but at Toronto’s level at 1/4 the price, it’s pretty much a no brainer. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Hey kmc I’m also having to choose from Toronto and other US schools(purdue and RPI). From what I’ve heard the Americans tend to recommend US schools, while the Canadians recommend Toronto. Regarding getting a better job in the industry after graduation, what do you suggest? People say the US has a bigger hi-tech industry and higher salaries (with lower taxes). Oh and as a prospective grad student, I have tuition waivers.</p>
<p>^^^It’s all about the money in the this case SilhouetteDown. Toronto costs way less than Michigan for a Canadian student. If costs were more comparable, then the recommendations would be different.</p>
<p>SD – I think it also depends on your area of specialization and WHERE you want to work afterward, and what kind of country you want to live in in terms of things such as education and social safety net for your family. Income tax is much lower in the U.S. in higher income brackets compared to Canada, but as a business owner, I pay $15,000 for my own health care coverage that I did not pay in Canada, and to receive equivalent education I also feel people might do better in some private schools in the US, which are an expense, where I personally BELIEVE in public schools – but only if they’re funded and run by competent, professional staff. The quality of education in the US is much more uneven – meaning outstanding in some neighborhoods and quite abysmal in others. In Canada, my experience was that education was valued among all people and FOR all people.</p>
<p>So, if you were wanting to work in the US and were comfortable with what that meant (getting used to no national healthcare, possibly paying for future children to be properly educated, etc.) you might want to consider networking via US schools and recruitment (eg. then I’d say choose Michigan). If you’re Canadian already and you think you’re likely to want to work in Canada, U of T (Toronto, not texas is very well regarded in the industry and is exceptionally well priced. </p>
<p>Several of my friends in engineering work for Canadian companies but manage divisions in the U.S. (and around the world) and not one to date has necessarily found it to be more fiscally lucrative to go to the U.S. per se. But that’s not at a “starting out” level, and that might be industry specific (I know a lot of people in refinery and petrochem.)</p>