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I also know someone who has enrolled at UBC in agricultural from the US. He told me the same would of cost him much, much more in the US, hence one of the reasons he is here.
Doubt Canada is that much cheaper, especially for international students. U.S. schools are generally more expensive, because all the Tier-1 schools are private.
Doubt Canada is that much cheaper, especially for international students. U.S. schools are generally more expensive, because all the Tier-1 schools are private.
Most tier one. There's three public Tier 1 schools just in Texas. University of Texas - Austin, Texas A&M, and University of Houston. Rice is as well, but it's private.
The amount of health insurance in USA is staggering ($800-$1000 a person a month is not uncommon). That alone, to me, cancels out all nit-picking about taxes.
if you have a decent job, your employer will pay most of it. Didn't you know that?
Nobody I know in the US has to pay $1000 a month on health insurance.
An unemployed person will have a bad quality of life in both countries, so there is no point in comparing to start with.
if you have a decent job, your employer will pay most of it. Didn't you know that?
Nobody I know in the US has to pay $1000 a month on health insurance.
An unemployed person will have a bad quality of life in both countries, so there is no point in comparing to start with.
Yep. Actually it is not all that uncommon for a family of 3 to pay $1000 per month, especially if they are self-employed or contract workers.
And yes employer does pay part of your insurance, but you still have to contribute a portion of your salary towards the insurance premium every month. I believe my old monthly premium was about $180 that is deducted monthly from pay, and that was the cheapest/crappiest policy I could find via my employer. It's not a biggie if you are young and healthy, but every time I go visit the doctor I had to pay a pretty sizeable co-pay (about $250 as a first time patient), and the co-pay increases if I go visit specialists.
I find that healthcare in Ontario is a lot more simple after my move to Toronto. In fact, I end up with a little more disposable income here because I no longer have to pay those non-sense deductions.
if you have a decent job, your employer will pay most of it. Didn't you know that?
Nobody I know in the US has to pay $1000 a month on health insurance.
An unemployed person will have a bad quality of life in both countries, so there is no point in comparing to start with.
An d if you don't? A person with a face-disfiguring illness I knew in the US (he had been as high-flying and had felt as invincible as any of the posters here) was unable to work so his insurance became $800 a month, and the world could care less if he was able to shoulder that all alone or not. I suppose the most vulnerable, who cannot work, are the most disadvantaged in the US. And that alone - the social fairness in Canada - again, for me, cancels out any nit-picking about taxes.
A-ha-ha-ha re: an unemployed person would have worse health care here in Canada. The care is the same here, nobody asks how much you are making when you enter a clinic.
Most tier one. There's three public Tier 1 schools just in Texas. University of Texas - Austin, Texas A&M, and University of Houston. Rice is as well, but it's private.
When I say Tier-1, I meant the most selective schools - typically the top 20 that make the annual U.S. News and World Rankings. And they are all private, with the sole exception of UC Berkeley. Nobody who can get into Ivy + Stanford, Duke, MIT, Caltech would ever consider Austin or Texas A&M. For the highest achieving graduates those are "safety schools" meant as backup in case every single top 20 rejects them.
University of Texas Austin is not even close in our national rankings: #53. UVA, UMichigan, and UNC Chapel Hill are all public schools that are much better.
When I say Tier-1, I meant the most selective schools - typically the top 20 that make the annual U.S. News and World Rankings. And they are all private, with the sole exception of UC Berkeley. Nobody who can get into Ivy + Stanford, Duke, MIT, Caltech would ever consider Austin or Texas A&M. For the highest achieving graduates those are "safety schools" meant as backup in case every single top 20 rejects them.
University of Texas Austin is not even close in our national rankings: #53. UVA, UMichigan, and UNC Chapel Hill are all public schools that are much better.
Tier 1 has an actual meaning, as the top research schools in the country. If you're talking rankings, that's a different point, and it really depends on who's doing the scoring.
I'm not waving the flag for Texas, I was just using UT as an example as the global ranking has it placed very close to UBC, which was the original point. There's no way that a public school of any kind will make a US based top school. UNC may drop a bit now that they have a faux course scandal.
UBC does NOT charge $5000 to $7000 per semester but rather per year.
Not according to their website;
September 5, 2014
Term 1 tuition fees are due. Tuition fee payment in Winter Session may be done in two instalments. In general, the first instalment covers tuition for Term 1 courses and the first half of two-term courses, plus most student fees. Visit the UBC Calendar for more details.
$4,900 to $7,800 for Canadian citizens and permanent residents [1] $26,400 to $33,680 for students on study permits [1]
January 7, 2015
Term 2 tuition fees are due. The second instalment covers tuition for Term 2 courses and the second half of two-term courses. Visit the UBC Calendar for more details.
See tuition amounts listed for September 5, 2014.
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