The higher education in Canada

THE HIGHER EDUCATION IN CANADA – UNIVERSITIES OF CANADA: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, TRENT UNIVERSITY
Simon Fraser University (S.F.U.) (1965): www.sfu.ca <http://www.sfu.ca/>
Arrangement: Canada, Barnaby’s cities and Vancouver, province British Columbia
Description: Here the third decade the university is registered among three best unspecialized higher education institutions of Canada.
On two of its big campuses students are trained according to 100 baccalaureate and 50 master programs.
Graduates of university became famous in the most different areas of modern life – from policy (3 prime ministers of Canada) before sport (3 prize-winners of the Olympic Games) and computer games (Ming Li – the founder of the games Half-Life and Counter-Strike).
Number of students: 24 thousand
Programs and specializations of training: business, management, finance, engineering, pedagogics, ecology, art, mass media, medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, economy, ecology, informatics, design, political science, geography, psychology
Beginning of programs: September; January; May
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 16’000 – 18’000/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 11’000/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 88+ (R:20 +, W:20 +, S:20 +, L:20 +); certificate on the previous ademichesky education
Saint Mary’s University (1802): www.smu.ca
Arrangement: Canada, Halifax, province Nova Skotiya
Programs and specializations: business, management, informatics, ecology, medicine, astronomy, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, psychology, corporate training, criminalistics, oriental studies, art, engineering, anthropology, economy, linguistics, history, geography, political science, philosophy, sociology, marketing
Beginning of programs: September
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 6’000 – 34’000/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 7’000 – 9’000/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 80+; IELTS: 6.5 +; certificate on the previous academic education
McGill University (1921): www.mcgill.ca
Arrangement: Canada, Montreal, Province of Quebec
Description: In the twenties the last century in laboratories of university the great physicist Ernst Rutherford was engaged in physical researches.
McGill is called one of the best Canadian universities in the next annual Maclean’s list. The second year in a row McGill becomes number 2 according to medical programs, conceding only to Toronto university. In 2010 McGill once again becomes the best in such categories as, for example, “the highest academic rates of entrants and students” (the university has the greatest percent of the students who got various national awards and awards); and “the greatest percent of foreign students”. In recent years the McGill business school where this program is taught, is included into number 15 of the strongest outside the USA.
Number of students: 34 thousand
Programs and specializations: anthropology, geography, mathematics, statistics, engineering, right, accounting, business, art, culture, informatics, communications, medicine, marketing, materials science, management, music, ecology, plant growing, agriculture, zoology, social sciences, physics, psychology, philosophy, political science, finance, chemistry, economy, linguistics.
Beginning of programs of training: September-October; January
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 15’000 – 24’500/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 11’000 – 12’000/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 80-100; certificate on the previous academic education
Algonquin College (1967): www .algonquincollege.com
Arrangement: Canada, Ottawa, Province of Ontario
Description: Along with Toronto Ottawa one of two megalopolises of the Province of Ontario. The city fairy tale – voproshcheny architecture of Hi-Tech, Ottawa is not only one of the most excellent places not only for life, but also for study. The college offers about 200 programs of training of baccalaureate and master level. From 18 thousand students of college 1 thousand – representatives more the 100th camp of the world (including and Russia).
Number of students: 18 thousand
Programs and specializations: architecture, design, informatics, business, management, finance, accounting, marketing, media, engineering, ecology, art, journalism, linguistics
Beginning of programs: September; January
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 11’500 – 14’000/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 9’000 – 11’000/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 88+; IELTS: 6.0 – 6.5 +; certificate on the previous academic education
Trent University (1964): www.trentu.ca
Arrangement: Canada, Peterboro, Province of Ontario
Description: Trent is distinguished by rather soft conditions of transfer and quality of language and preuniversity preparation. It is fine opportunity for future bachelors “to log in” the higher education of North America at desire
further to be transferred to other more prestigious higher education institution of Canada or the USA.
Besides, Trent is known as “green” university where the huge attention was always paid to an ecological component of the academic programs and scientific projects.
Number of students: 5 thousand
Programs and specializations: history, anthropology, biology, business, chemistry, physics, informatics, culture, economy, pedagogics, art, ecology, forestry, geography, natural study, development, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology
Beginning of programs: September; January
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 16’700 – 17’300/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 9’400 – 12’000/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 86+; certificate on the previous academic education
University of Toronto (U.of T.) (1827): www.utoronto.ca
Arrangement: Canada, Toronto, Province of Ontario
Description: The London Times puts in the rating Toronto university on the 17th place that is the highest result for the Canadian higher education institutions in so authoritative list. Here it is necessary to add that among top to fifty Times have only three Canadian universities.
Toronto (about 4 million inhabitants) is one of the largest cities of the Province of Ontario, and U of T its largest higher education institution having 3 big campuses where about 75 thousand students are annually trained. The few Canadian higher education institutions can be proud of Nobel laureates among the graduates. And scientists of university, professor F.Banting and doctor D.-A. MacLeod, became the first Canadians who received this award for merits in the field of medicine and psychology.
Number of students: 75 thousand
Programs and specializations: architecture, design, business, management, informatics, stomatology, engineering, pedagogics, ecology, art, medicine, pharmacology, sport, natural sciences, sociology, corporate training, international relations; forestry, right, linguistics
Beginning of programs: September-October; May
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 25’000 – 48’000/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 11’300 – 19’500/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 100+; certificate on the previous academic education
University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) (1908): www.ubc.ca
Arrangement: Canada, cities of Vancouver and Keluna, province British Columbia
Description: The British weekly Newsweek placed University of British Columbia on the 27th place in the world. The influential American magazine US News & World Report gave to university the 40th place in the universal rating.
Vancouver (with suburbs of 2 million inhabitants) by right is considered almost ideal place for life not only in Canada, but also on all North American continent. In 2010 the city will receive the “White” Olympic Games.
The province British Columbia has deficiency of qualified personnel, and the university successfully promotes the solution of this problem. About 40 thousand his employed graduates provided in 2008-09 the cumulative economic effect for the province about 6 million Canadian dollars.
Among graduates of UBC the Nobel laureate – the Doctor of economy Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh.
Number of students: 44 thousand
Programs and specializations: pedagogics, agriculture, medicine, anatomy, anthropology, informatics, architecture, archiving, art, linguistics, business administration, chemistry, physics, biology, botany and zoology, cross-cultural relations, engineering, theatrics, design, psychology, forestry, geography, sociology, history, economy, journalism, right, mathematics, music, pharmacology, philosophy, planning, plant growing, political science, Theosophy, land management, statistics.
Beginning of programs: September-October
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 7’000 – 42’000/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 12’000/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 90+, certificate on the previous academic education
Acadia University (1838): www.acadiau.ca
Arrangement: Canada, Volfsvill, province Nova Skotiya
Description: Akadiya is the only higher education institution taking the 1st places on all four main categories of an authoritative Canadian rating: “The best university”, “Quality of education”, “Innovation” and “The higher education institution looking in tomorrow”. In 18 years of existence of a rating of Maclean’s this higher education institution of 15 times was called as University with the most innovative training baccalaureate programs.
Volfsvill where the university – the typical Canadian campus is located. Far from noisy megalopolises all conditions for fruitful study and active recreation of students are created here. 10% of students of Akadiya are made by foreigners.
Number of students: about 4 thousand
Programs and specializations: business, management, pedagogics, informatics, art, economy, linguistics, history, Theosophy, music, philosophy, political science, sociology, theatrics, regional geography, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, statistics, physics, psychology, engineering, ecology.
Beginning of programs: September
Duration of programs: bachelor degree: 4 years; magistracy: 1-1,5 years
Training cost, 2011-2012: CAD 6’500 – 13’500/academic year
Cost of accommodation and food: CAD 6’500 – 8’500/year
Requirements to applikant: age 17+; TOEFL ibt: 79-92; certificate on the previous academic education