<p>What are comparable institutions in America? (In terms of prestige, difficulty, etc)</p>
<p>Overall school:
U of T
McGill
UBC</p>
<p>and
Waterloo engineering
Queen's business</p>
<p>thanks in advance</p>
<p>I’d put Toronto and McGill roughly on the level of Michigan. UBC slightly below…perhaps NYU level.</p>
<p>Waterloo is very good in engineering (the best in Canada, I think), and its computer science program is extremely famous (like Carnegie Mellon). The co-op program is well-established and successful.</p>
<p>I agree with IBClass06. Might also compare UBC to Wisconsin.</p>
<p>The latest THES/QS ranking of ** North American ** universities is as follows:</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>] Harvard
[</em>] Yale
[<em>] Caltech
[</em>] Univ of Chicago
[<em>] MIT
[</em>] Columbia
[<em>] Univ of Pennsylvania
[</em>] Princeton
[<em>] Duke
[</em>] Johns Hopkins
[<em>] Cornell
[</em>] Stanford
[<em>] Michigan
[li] ** McGill **[/li][li] Carnegie Mellon[/li][</em>] Brown
[<em>] UCLA
[</em>] Northwestern
[<em>] ** UBC **
[li] UC Berkeley[/li][</em>] NYU
[<em>] ** Univ of Toronto **
[li] Boston Univ[/li][</em>] Dartmouth
[<em>] Wisconsin-Madison
[</em>] UC San Diego
[<em>] Univ of Washington
[</em>] WUSTL
[<em>] Emory
[</em>] UT Austin
[<em>] Univ of Illinois
[</em>] Rice
[<em>] Georgia Tech
[</em>] Univ of Minnesota
[<em>] UC Davis
[</em>] Case Western Reserve
[<em>] Univ of Virginia
[</em>] Univ of Pittsburgh
[<em>] UC Santa Barbara
[</em>] Purdue
[<em>] Vanderbilt
[</em>] Univ of North Carolina
[<em>] Univ of Southern California
[</em>] Penn State
[<em>] Georgetown
[li] ** McMaster **[/li][li] ** Queen’s **[/li][li] Univ of Rochester[/li][</em>] Ohio State
[<em>] Univ of Maryland
[</em>] SUNY Stony Brook
[li] ** Waterloo **[/li][/ol]</p>
<p>The THES/QS ranking is not very popular among CC’ers, but, from an international perspective, apart from Stanford’s and Berkeley’s lower-than-expected ranking, the list above is on average an accurate depiction of how North American (research) universities are perceived overseas in terms of prestige.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how hard it is to get into UBC Vancouver campus as an american?</p>
<p>I see. Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>Small, I’m not sure if you’re an american, but having lived in vancouver for 9 years, I find that UBC is not hard to get in at all. If you’re international it might be different, but I think it’s much better than an international applying to US.</p>
<p>And I really don’t like UBC, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>Yes, thank you, a friend is looking at it because her sister is going to grad school there</p>