Canadian Engineering Schools Tier List!

Short Summary:

This video presents a tier list ranking 13 Canadian engineering universities based on three criteria: graduation rate, employment match rate, and student loan default rate. The goal is to objectively assess which universities best prepare students for engineering careers. The video highlights the University of Waterloo as the top-ranked school due to its exceptionally high employment match rate. The speaker emphasizes the importance of considering employment prospects when choosing an engineering program.

Detailed Summary:

Introduction:

The video aims to rank 13 Canadian engineering universities based on three objective criteria: graduation rate, employment match rate, and student loan default rate.
The speaker emphasizes that these criteria are chosen to assess the universities' effectiveness in training employable engineers, rather than focusing on factors like university size or prestige.

University Rankings:

Tier S:
- University of Waterloo (1st): High graduation rate, exceptionally high employment match rate (94.3%), and low default rate.
- University of Toronto (3rd): High graduation rate, high employment match rate (90.8%), and zero default rate.
Tier A:
- University of Alberta (5th): High graduation rate, high employment match rate (92%), and presumed low default rate.
- McGill University (4th): High graduation rate, high employment match rate (91%), and low default rate.
- Queen's University (6th): Highest graduation rate (91.4%), high employment match rate (89.9%), and low default rate.
Tier B:
- University of British Columbia (8th): Estimated high graduation rate, high employment match rate (85%), and presumed low default rate.
- McMaster University (7th): Moderate graduation rate, high employment match rate (90%), and low default rate.
Tier C:
- Carleton University (10th): Moderate graduation rate, moderate employment match rate (83.5%), and moderate default rate.
Tier D:
- University of Windsor (9th): Moderate graduation rate, moderate employment match rate (81.5%), and high default rate.
- Ryerson University (11th): Moderate graduation rate, moderate employment match rate (80%), and moderate default rate.
- Ontario Tech University (12th): Low graduation rate, low employment match rate (76.2%), and moderate default rate.
Tier E:
- York University (13th): Extremely low graduation rate (58%), no reported employment match rate, and moderate default rate.

Conclusion:

The speaker emphasizes the importance of considering employment match rate when choosing an engineering program, especially due to the high cost of education.
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Notable Quotes:

"The most important thing to me when I was choosing these criterias was to make sure that I wasn't looking at things like the size of the university, the types and accolades of the professors that are at that university, the kind of global renowned brand names of the university. I wanted this to be more of an objective: do they do a good job of training students to become actual engineers?"
"If you want to go to a university and get a job in that field like almost guaranteed, the place to go is the University of Waterloo."
"You really want to get your money's worth out of it and that usually means being employed in the field that you know you go to school for and that you try and learn about."