<p>You post a site like c.o.l.l.e.g.e p.r.o.w.l.e.r, the university evaluating equivalent of Yelp as one of your sources, and then question the reliability of Times Higher Education Rankings… Seriously?!</p>
<p>We talked about this… Just because Time’s rankings don’t correspond with YOUR personal rankings doesn’t mean they are flawed, just that they DON’T AGREE WITH YOUR VIEWS. Btw virtually all University ranking systems have a survey component because they often ask academics and employers in various fields of industry how they value a degree from specific institutions (a valuable component of determining “prestige”, no?)</p>
<p>Also what about how well Toronto and McGill and UBC do on QS and US News. Are they similarly unreliable in your view?</p>
<p>BTW Washington Monthly only ranks American universities, not world Universities so it is irrelevant to judging Canadian Universities. Please check your sources before posting.</p>
<p>I have multiple sources backing up my claim that at least some Canadian Universities are prestigious… You have yet to list one reliable source to your claim. Until you have some reliable data (please no more public message boards) it is not worth you posting again.</p>
<p>You have the right to your opinion, but to be frank it is an opinion that is largely not supported by the data.</p>
<p>I am from Canada and planning to attend college in the States, so we’re completely opposite :)</p>
<p>Since I don’t know your intend major, I’d say McGill, Queens, UofT, and UBC are the schools that hold fantastic reputations. </p>
<p>If you’re a science/health care person, definitely try to apply to McMaster. Engineering I’d recommend Waterloo, McMaster, UofT to you. Queens and Western (Ivey) are great for business programs. McGill, again, holds an irreplaceable reputation in the world. </p>
<p>So Queens is good. Nameless’ precious Times ranking puts Queens in 225th place. Waterloo and Western are not prestigious institutions. I had never heard of either of them until last year.</p>
<p>You seem to have a real vendetta against the Times don’t you? Well if you don’t like it you are free to use rankings like QS and US news or the ARWU. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Personally my favorite is actually QS because I find their website provides some very useful background information about the university beyond just the raw rankings.</p>
<p>BTW Dartmouth (ARWU: 151–200, QS: 113, TIMES 124) tends to suffer in most rankings because it has a focus on undergraduate experience rather than research oriented graduate work, and thus does not produce a large amount of high impact research.</p>
<p>If you want to judge Liberal Arts Colleges like Dartmouth your best bet is to look at rankings that specifically look at LACs because they are very different in terms of their education objectives and styles, and comparing them to research intense universities is frankly comparing apples and oranges.</p>
<p>Point still stands: There are prestigious Canadian Universities and EVERY major global university evaluating system agrees.</p>
<p>No doubt Canadian U have good reputation, but for undergraduate education, the typical class size in UT/UBC can be 10 times bigger than US private schools, does this mean a big disadvantage on education quality?</p>
<p>Average tuition at top US private universities is $43,000. At Canadian universities it is about $8000. If you want small classes you will have to pay for it. If you family can afford it, then go.</p>
<p>There are also plenty of small Canadian Universities too, which have small class sizes, a larger focus on undergraduate education and probably have more of a small LAC/private U feel. It just that the only Canadian Universities that are focused on on this site are the huge research universities like McGill or Toronto, which have big introductory classes for undergrad. </p>
<p>The University of Toronto is Canada’s #1 school is world renowned for its research and has some of the best professors in the world teaching there. It is like #17 in the world. Very prestigious. One thing you should know about UofT is that they are quite hard. YOu should go on studentawards.ca/forum and look into all the gossip about this school. good luck</p>
I am aware that U of T is the highest ranking college in Canada. It is ranked highly in the world rankings, as it is ranked above Yale for example. However, U of T is not nearly as selective as Yale. So what is the deal with the comparison of prestige between the two? Will it be beneficial to go to Yale because it is harder to get into, or is U of T viewed highly just as much even though its acceptance rate is much higher?
U of T works differently. The weak ones are separated from the cream during the college years. Very intensive in general. So the higher acceptance rate can be very misleading.