thomasincanada said:
It makes sense that when you have 10 times as many universities, your top ones are going to be better. Canada certainly has no universities with the reputation of Princeton/Harvard, etc.
However, I think it's fair to say our average university education is as good as the average US university education. Are you inferring something different?
Although we're getting quite off topic, and this more of a Lounge topic...I'll continue as I pretty much started this tangent....
I would say our top schools (U of T, the rest of the top Ontario ones, UBC, McGill, a couple others) can compete in certain areas (Business, Medicine, Law)...however as a whole, I would say that the US universities are better. And the reason is quite simple, and its Funding; not the number of universities, which of course does help the cause. US tuitions are higher, and US universities receive a lot of money via corporate sponsors.
Now, I would say Canadian universities are more accessible by more of the population here in Canada than compared against the American universities. This is the major advantage of the Canadian post-secondary system has over the American system.
But unless you can go to one of those previously mentioned Canadian universites, which I am not (I'm at University of Manitoba), than I would rather be in a US university.
Thats where I stand on that. So to relate it to hockey, unless I knew I'd be able to take courses at UBC or U of T, etc with the tuition money provided by the WHL; I'd rather wait until I was done high school and try and go to an American university.
Plus there is an intangible benefit for taking post-secondary education away from your home.