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BEST 6 ENGINEERING SCHOOLS IN CANADA
Canada’s best universities are public with tuition that is generally much more affordable than that at
most American universities. But how good an education does a Canadian school give you? What is a
degree from University of British Columbia, McGill, or University of Toronto worth when stacked up
against the best universities from around the world?
That depends on who’s doing the ranking.
The ranking systems are, quite frankly, a bit of a scam. They depend on subjective interviews and
factors like “reputation” as judged by other academics. And most professors are like hyenas roaming
the Serengeti looking for carrion to feast on: shrill-voiced, cowardly, but cruel and even violent if
they have to be. So, some ranking systems favour British or European universities. Others favour
North American or at least American universities. And the ranking differences for any given school
can be substantially different, depending on what ranking system you use.
Maclean’s ranking of Canadian universities, for example, suffers from around 10 major Canadian
universities refusing to participate for over a decade now. They claim the rankings were too simple
and too subjective. So, Maclean’s rankings were not used in compiling our own rankings. But even
they could be used by people to consider some of Canada’s smaller universities and try to find one
that fits one’s needs.
So, rankings – even if they are fairly subjective – are necessary in order to see how schools compare
to their peers. But because methodologies differ among different surveys, and because the
methodology does not necessarily measure objective things, it’s at best a guide and not a true
ranking. Consider what David Woodhouse in University World News writes:
The central criticism about whole-of-institution rankings relates to the methodology that addresses
quality in a superficial way but projects a complex image. Most rankings rely on two types of data:
data given by institutions that may not be validated, and data obtained from opinion polls in the
name of 'expert opinion'. With both components on shaky ground, the use of complex formulae with
weights and indicators only helps to project a pseudo-scientific image to outcomes that may be
statistically irrelevant
