Top Universities in Canada

Once you decide to study in Canada, you will realize that it’s a great future investment; cost and quality effective. Studying in Canada will give you access to excellent education, a cultural diversity and most importantly one globally recognized degree. However studying abroad, just as in any other country which is not your own, requires prior financial planning and commitment before your departure.

Tuition Fees

One of the most important aspects of choosing an overseas study destination is the total cost in terms of tuition and living expenses. Canada, therefore offers a reasonable price to knowledge and self-affiliation, for both national and international students.

Tuition fees in Canada vary across programs, universities and provinces. Generally degrees in professional schools like law, medicine and the MBA are ranked as the most expensive as in every other country.

The program duration in Canada ranges from 3 – 4 years for undergraduate programs and 1 – 2 years for graduate programs.

Before departing to Canada you have to make sure you’ve put some money aside for initial expenses, as part of the process as following:

Application fees $50 to $150 depending on the University.
Approximately 25per University due to authentication of documents required by the University (transcripts, recommendation letters).
Entrance exam costs around $ 200 a piece, depending on the field you are applying for. Usually students take this exam two times therefore plan on spending around 500 $ on this test.
Test scores like GMAT, GRE, SAT, TOEFL, IELTS have to be reported by the testing agencies (like ETS), which may cost up to $ 20 per University (an average cost for reporting scores of all tests you may have taken).

Canada is a big and assorted country even when it comes to expenses, so the money you will spend on University fees overall depend widely on the region you choose to live. The expenses also vary from the different study programs you are enrolled in, whether you are and undergraduate students or a graduate student and so on.

A blunt overview of University expenses for international students that study in different provinces in Canada is presented below:

Province

Undergraduate Students

Graduate Student

Newfoundland Prince Edward Island

Nova Scotia

New Brunswick

Quebec

Ontario

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

Alberta

British Columbia

$7,260$7,510

$8,520 – 12,480

$7,063 – 10,720

$9,168 – 10,518

$6,900 – 16,204

$4,940 – 6,900

$7,779 – 10,890

$6,293 – 11,078

$4,462 – 15,870

$1,896 – 3,549$6,100

$4,329 – 15,000

$5,610 – 8,465

$8,268 – 20,000

$5,432 – 29,000

$3,795 – 9,685

$5,313

$5,298 – $19,200

$2,272 – $17,499

Top Universities in Canada

1. McGill University

Mc gill university

Ranked 24^thin the world, McGill University has once again overtaken the University of Toronto to return to its earlier position as the highest ranking university in Canada. Founded in 1821, the university has international students from 150 countries and has been voted first in Canada among medical-doctoral universities for 10 consecutive years.

2. University of Toronto

Ranked 34^th in the world, the University of Toronto is located in Canada’s largest city. Its areas of acclaim include literary criticism, communication and theory, and a range of research innovations, including being the birthplace of insulin and stem cell research.

3. University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

Over on the west coast, the University of British Columbia ranks 50^th in the world and is home to almost 60,000 students (almost 12,000 of whom are international students) at its campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna.

4. University of Alberta

University of Alberta

Ranked joint 96^th in the world in the QS World University Rankings this year alongside the University of Helsinki, the University of Alberta is a major economic driver in Alberta and has been particularly well-respected for its arts and humanities courses.

5. Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is one of Canada’s major research centers, allocating nearly $524 million to research conducted in more than 150 research centers as of 2011. It ranks 115^th in the world this year and has an international community of over 7,000 students.

6.McMaster University

McMaster University

This year McMaster University ranks joint 149^th in the world alongside the Université Catholique De Louvain. It’s is located on a 300 acre campus in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, which in recent years has attracted attention for its growing arts scene.

7. University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Ranked 152^nd in the world this year, the University of Waterloo has climbed 17 places compared to the previous year’s rankings. The university is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada, and claims to have the number one psychology department in Canada, based on research citations.

8. Western University

Western University

Otherwise known as the University of Western Ontario, Western University is ranked 192^nd in the world this year and is especially known for its medicine, science and business courses – with its largest faculty being the social sciences.

9.University of Calgary

University of Calgary

Ranked joint 204^th in the world alongside the Università Di Bologna, the University of Calgary is the birthplace of significant inventions such as the neurochip, and counts the current Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, among its alumni.

10. Queen’s University

Queens University

Based in Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s University, is ranked 206^th in the world this year, and has campuses spanning more than 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of land throughout Ontario. Queen's was the first university west of the maritime provinces to admit women, and to form a student government.

The remaining top universities in Canada are…

11. Simon Fraser University – ranked 225^th in the world.

12. Dalhousie University – ranked joint 277^th in the world.

13. University of Ottawa – ranked joint 284^th in the world.

14. University of Victoria – ranked joint 319^th in the world.

15. Laval University – ranked joint 324^th in the world.

16. Concordia University – ranked 411-420 in the world.

17. Université du Québec – ranked 431-440 in the world (a good leap from its ranking of 501-550 last year).

18. York University – ranked 441-450 in the world.

19. University of Saskatchewan – ranked 451-460 in the world.

20. University of Guelph – ranked 471-480 in the world.

21. Carleton University – ranked 501-550 in the world.