<p>Which is the best business school in Canada? I heard it's either Queens or Western.</p>
<p>They’re both equally amazing, but extremely different at the same time. </p>
<p>Western is a HUUGE party school (and has a lot larger student pop.), and London is a great university town. Western Ivey is different from other undergraduate business programs in Canada in that you don’t actually start studying at Ivey until after 2nd year - and that is if you have been able to keep your AEO status/GPA/etc. So for the first two years, you can study anything you want. As well, when you’re actually studying at Ivey, the tuition more than triples (if you’re a Canadian citizen). I also believe the prerequisites to get AEO status are much different from Queen’s prerequisites. I’ve also heard that Ivey is better for those who are much better at networking, presentations, etc. - just really good oral and presentation skills. </p>
<p>Queen’s on the other hand is very social, but not as wild as Western, and Kingston is also a great university town. Queen’s admits much less students than Western and requires more essays. Queen’s Commerce unlike Ivey is all four years. Commerce is slightly harder to get into than getting AEO status (correct me if I’m wrong!). Also, the program basically doesn’t allow you to take any electives until your third year. As well, I’ve heard that Commerce is better for those who excel at math - if you’re more interested in going into banking/finance, Commerce is THE program!</p>
<p>Toronto, McGill, British Columbia and York could each also make cases to have “The best Business School in Canada” The different MBA and BBA rankings, both at domestic and international don’t really have a consensus ranking of these 6 schools.</p>
<p>If you are interested in looking at reputation rankings here are some well known sources:</p>
<p>Financial Times:
[Business</a> school rankings from the Financial Times - Global MBA Ranking 2013](<a href=“http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2013]Business”>http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2013)</p>
<p>Business insider (rankings for MBAs):
[The</a> World’s Best Business Schools - Business Insider](<a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com/best-business-schools-list-2011-6]The”>The World's Best Business Schools)</p>
<p>Frankly business school rankings as a whole are a fairly nebulous affair and unlike many other departments in universities, the brand name of a particular business school will differ drastically based on where you are applying for a job in Canada. Not surprisingly you will find people everywhere that will claim that one of these schools is clearly above the rest, mainly because it was the one which was most prominent in their area (where I come from in Toronto, the top highschoolers who wanted to go to business generally went tot UofT or York), I would think for cities like Montreal and Ottawa Queens and McGill business alumni would similarly be the dominant groups. Nonetheless the 6 listed (Toronto, Queens, York, McGill, Western, UBC) tend to be grouped together (in various orders) at the top of most rankings and reputational surveys and a degree from any one of them will serve you well.</p>
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<p>From what I understand Richard ivey is better but you can’t go wrong with either one.</p>
<p>How would U of A and U of Calgary business schools compare with these two schools?</p>
<p>How is Western’s medical sciences program?</p>