Abstract
The Canadian university system, principally public and administered by its provinces, is distinct and telling in terms of societal trade-offs. Its most salient distinction in contrast to the United States is the absence of an Ivy League equivalent for undergraduate education, with emphasis on system-wide consistent high calibre and low tuition cost.
Highlights
NO ELITE TIER OF UNIVERSITIES For a country with 10 percent of the US population, it has proportionately far fewer institutions
Canada’s university system evinces a different prevailing ethos. It aspires to lesser differences overall—in terms of calibre of teaching, content, research, and facilities
Canada’s bachelor’s degree programs are highly respected outside Canada, and its professional programs and medical and law schools are considered first rate by the loftiest of US vantage points (for example, all engineering schools are accredited by the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)
Summary
NO ELITE TIER OF UNIVERSITIES For a country with 10 percent of the US population, it has proportionately far fewer institutions. Some countries with much smaller populations, than Canada’s 35 million, have developed a sharply differentiated or tiered university system. Anyway, why does Canada have a Big Five and not a Best Five?
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