American vs. Canadian University - Engineering?

If you're going to major in engineering at an Ivy League, then you might as well stay in Canada. Most of the Ivy Leagues have nothing spectacular in terms of their engineering departments (Cornell is probably the exception). It probably won't be worth the extra cost and effort.

Okay, first of all, you are probably going to have to do an undergraduate, and then engineering masters degree.

So, basically, you will have to get a bachelor degree to be considered for an Ivy League school.

You could easily go to a very good Canadian school, get lots of practice (because we have lots of trade initiatives for engineers), and get a high paying job right away.

You don't even have to volunteer because many Canadian universities have something called Co-ops, which means that you will get paid to do 4 months at an engineering job, and then you have to do 4 months of school and that happens on and off for as many periods as your faculty says. You have to apply for this, but it's extremely beneficial to the work place because they will most likely hire someone who already has experience. Anyways, in your graduate year you would be doing an internship.

I really think that it's a waste of time and money for you right now. The thing is, you aren't really that experienced in the world yet fresh out of high school and Ivy League schools are hard work. It's not just a name...or should I say, it has it's name for many reasons.

I would suggest going to a school in Canada first, feeling life out, checking out what you like best, and then deciding. I've already changed my mind about 8 times in the course of two years at uni.

Long term benefits of going to an Ivy vs. a Canadian Unversity? I don't know...you become an American for a short period of time?

Honestly, you will get a lot out of going to a university in Canada.

Here are some good ones:

McGill (french)

Waterloo

University of Toronto

University of Guelph

Universtiy of British Columbia

EDIT: Yeah, like the guy said under me, the Co-op is the best part of a University.

I suggest for the Canadian Universities to look in Maclean's Magazine the University Edition. As for the USA universities i don't know too much but you have to be super careful to see if the degree will be recognized in Canada because the Canadian government does not recognize every degree in the USA equivalent to the same degree in Cnd and therefore a waste of time.

Hope this helps!

ps. McMaster University has a really good Engineering program and so does UBC.

pps. from Canada to USA I don't know. Sorry. Also coop is an amazing to do in University. I had a friend who went all ove Europe with a coop and he loved it. Also Waterloo does have amazing coops!

Every once in a while the government publishes statistics on people immigrating to Canada and the number of Americans coming to Canada usually comes close to the number of Canadians going to America. For come people the decision has to do with family reunification. It could be marriage. Some Canadians go south for the warmer weather. Foreign students pay more than Canadian students here (like American out of state tuition). Should you help her? Our immigration system is simple and the officials are honest. You don't need an immigration lawyer or a 'consultant'. So what help could you give her other than moral support?

For Canada...Waterloo is def #1 cuz of the co-op :)

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