Hello everyone,
I am a Canadian citizen who may apply to US universities. I am going into my senior year and all my grades so far have been pretty high (above 90%) except for some courses. I want to study engineering at a decent university. Can you guys recommend some good but not out-of-reach (ex. MIT and Ivies) ones?
Well, which part of Canada do live in? The east side or west?
For east, this is really nice US universities and colleges:
I don’t know many for the west side since I live on the east side of the United States, but I do know that University of California has great schools for engineering.
SAT/ACT scores? How much can you pay? East Coast, West Coast, Midwest? Private/public? Need financial aid or looking for merit aid?
I got around 2100 to 2200 (can’t remember I took it like a year ago) on the SAT. I got an 800 on SAT physics, which was quite surprising. Cost is not an issue but if it is much higher than Canadian universities I’ll probably stay in Canada. And thanks for the suggestions I will look into them
Also I think i’m rank 1 in my school, but my school is small and not competitive at all.
Good job! You should go for Cornell or Columbia Engineering.
As an International applicant, the California UC’s will cost $55K/year with little to no financial aid. Highly doubt they are worth paying this amount over some of the Canadian schools.
Unless you qualify for instate tuition at a public university, Canadian schools will cost waaaay less than an American school. Tuition in Canada will be $5-$10K, Canadian, similar to UMass instate tuition. Private universities will run $23K (for Olin with a half tuition discount) to $45K.
Ivy League for Engineering is a complete waste of money.
Best to shoot for one of the many excellent state schools. It would be better if you were more specific. Engineering is a pretty wide field. The answers would be different depending on the type.
If you look at the list @Lotus1113 highlighted above, the cost of attendance (OOS/International) varies from a low of ~$36K (CCNY) to a high of ~$58K (University of Michigan). I think, in almost every case, Canadian University cost will be much lower than comparable US institutions (excluding scholarships).
I disagree with the idea that “Ivy League for Engineering is a complete waste of money.” Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Penn have outstanding engineering programs for undergraduates. Are there less expensive options that are as highly ranked? Some. Obviously Georgia, Michigan, some of the UC’s, and some others. But the idea that none of the Ivy League schools have excellent engineering problems is far from true. Whether it is worth spending more for them can only be answered by the student and family. Many people think it is worth paying for but others choose not to.
As has been stated, it’s likely that nearly every U.S. engineering university of high caliber will have much higher tuition than your public universities in Canada. Also, you haven’t indicated which engineering discipline interests you. The availability and quality of individual U.S. university engineering departments will vary.
Have you no interest in the very fine Canadian universities? What about the Engineering departments at U of Alberta, U of Waterloo, U of Toronto, McGill University, U of British Columbia or McMaster University? I am not sure that an engineering degree from any American university would be superior to the education you can get in Canada.
Unless you can get into a top 20 university in the US, it is an absolute waste of your parents money. Go to undergrad in Canada.