Thinking of Studying in Canada?

Canada has become an appealing destination for U.S. undergraduates because of the opportunity to get a world-class international education at a more affordable cost and without crossing an ocean.

Today we attended a lunch meeting with representatives from The University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario), Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario), Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec) and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec) to learn more about the benefits of studying at a Canadian university.

Here are some noteworthy facts we learned:

• Students at Queen’s University can spend their entire freshman year studying in a 15th-century castle at the Bader International Study Centre in the UK. Queen’s University has around 25,000 students and features competitive programs in Commerce (Business) and Film Production.
• Concordia University has a campus in the heart of downtown Montreal – ranked the top city in North America for students - as well as a more traditional suburban campus a 20-minute shuttle ride away. 6% of Concordia’s 46,000 students are from the United States. Concordia’s rocketry division recently took first place ahead of MIT and Yale at the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition.
• University of Guelph, located one hour west of Toronto with 22,000 students, has its own Turfgrass Institute. It also features a top graduate veterinary program with many opportunities for undergraduates to study animal related fields.
• Bishop’s University, with only 2,400 students, is one of the few primarily undergraduate institutions in Canada. Business is the most popular program, and the Physics Department ranks just behind Caltech for percentage of students continuing on to PhD programs.  

If you can stand the cold, it may be worth considering whether you might like to #LookNorth for your undergraduate education! 
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