u/Livid-Cup-7006 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
It's the number 1 school in canada. It's comparable to Harvard.
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited
So for SWE and CS in the market, I would say Waterloo is #1 because of the co-op program. UofT is more academic and is the #1 academic school. I was going to my PhD after because I was primed for academics yeah.
In full transparency Engineering Science itself is a program within UofT that is the hardest program in the country to get into and the lowest 1/3 of people need to switch out of after first year (not sure if this changed), roughly tied with McMaster's Pre-Med program. So it's fair to say I did have a very good college experience and I only paid $5,000 a year for it at the time.
I don't like really touting on paper things like this vs factual statements about what people do vs credentials, but I think it's fair to disclose this in this context.