Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:55:57 -0700WeeblyTue, 19 Mar 2013 03:21:40 GMThttp://english.vanforum.org/blog/chatting-on-ut-beating-cornell-u-of-penn Chatting on U.T. beating Cornell , U. of Penn.
Danny Li， 2013-3-18.

The Times ranked the University of Toronto in front of Cornell, University of Penn. UBC is ranked 22th beating Georgia Tech, Northwestern, San Diego, Duke, Wisconsin-Madison, UIUC, Minnesota, Maryland, Brown, Southern California, Purdue, Michigan State, Arizona.

In fact, University of Toronto, McGill and UBC were the best university in the world that could compare with Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford in the 60s and 70s. The US Universities improved so aggressively that the world forgot the Canadian Universities in the 90s.

There were always Nobel prize winners in UBC , which had been providing the top-notch education. I compared the US and Canadian Universities when I was working in UBC and University of Alberta 10 years ago, UBC was even better than most US Universities, almost as good as Stanford and Berkeley. The Canada Universities provided the small classes teaching, much better than the 200-300 students lectures of US colleges. The library  was not so busy as the US ones, you did not need to wait a long time to eat in the cafeteria.

The US universities were somewhat disorganized, money talked there, diplomas were so easy to obtain. The Cornell might be the easiest Ivy college to get in and to graduate. The various quality of Cornell students might be the reason of low rank. Univ. of Penn was the same problem, it spent a lot of money on the advertisements rather than the qualities of teaching, a Apple of Sodom. Of course, there is a disadvantage of ranking, the ranking high does not only relate to the quality of the schools.

In general, the Canada Universities do not focus on the vanities, in other words, they do not pay more attention to face and facework rather than being realistic to improve the teaching quality. The tuition fee is relatively more economic than the US ones, that is, it is worth studying in the Canada Universities.


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