Best intl. universities

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There are excellent French engineering schools which award students with a Bachelor’s degree (in English) in 3 years, with outstanding outcomes : students go on to grad schools like MIT, Caltech, Stanford,…
Check out the Ecole Polytechnique, CentraleSupelec (joint with McGill).

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Anonymous wrote:There are excellent French engineering schools which award students with a Bachelor’s degree (in English) in 3 years, with outstanding outcomes : students go on to grad schools like MIT, Caltech, Stanford,…
Check out the Ecole Polytechnique, CentraleSupelec (joint with McGill).

It seems this program is new--no one has yet matriculated, so we dont know the outcomes, it does sound fun though especially if you know French.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have experience with a kid learning a language and then studying in it? My kid loves language and would like to move somewhere, learn the language and then attend university there. Does anyone have an estimate for how long it might take to get fluent enough for university?

Depends on both the kid and the language.

Kid seems to pick up languages easily. His current plan is to go to Norwegian folkehogskole. He seems to think that in a year he'd be ready to go to Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which is ranked highly in his desiredy major.

That seems unrealistic to me, but maybe I am wrong?

Sure, he can be fluent in Norwegian in a year.

Not that PP but Norwegian is the easiest of the Scandinavian languages. If the kid is already a linguist there's EVERY chance they'll be pretty fluent in it after a year's immersion.

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In Greater China top schools have intl streams:
- HKU
- HKUST
- Beida

Top degree program options in China:
NYU Shanghai
Duke Wuhan

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Anonymous wrote:For business, the University of Western Ontario (now called “Western”) is considered one of the best in Canada. It has a bucolic campus in a smaller city. For some reason nobody ever mentions it here. It’s popular for students who don’t want to deal with the huge U of Toronto or the huge city of Toronto.

It's also generally regarded as the biggest party school in Canada.

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Anonymous wrote:For business, the University of Western Ontario (now called “Western”) is considered one of the best in Canada. It has a bucolic campus in a smaller city. For some reason nobody ever mentions it here. It’s popular for students who don’t want to deal with the huge U of Toronto or the huge city of Toronto.

It's also generally regarded as the biggest party school in Canada.

UWO doesn't even factor on the "best colleges" list in Canada. There's tons of options but if you're going to aim for one of them, at least aim high.

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Anonymous wrote:There are excellent French engineering schools which award students with a Bachelor’s degree (in English) in 3 years, with outstanding outcomes : students go on to grad schools like MIT, Caltech, Stanford,…
Check out the Ecole Polytechnique, CentraleSupelec (joint with McGill).

I didnt realize that these French Unis are rated top in Math, apparently the teaching is in English--does anyone have any experience?

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Anonymous wrote:For business, the University of Western Ontario (now called “Western”) is considered one of the best in Canada. It has a bucolic campus in a smaller city. For some reason nobody ever mentions it here. It’s popular for students who don’t want to deal with the huge U of Toronto or the huge city of Toronto.

It's also generally regarded as the biggest party school in Canada.

UWO doesn't even factor on the "best colleges" list in Canada. There's tons of options but if you're going to aim for one of them, at least aim high.

Western is solid. I'd call it the IU of Canada.

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ETH - Zurich - one of the best in the world

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Those who know Canada, what can you tell me about Queen’s?

My DD was looking at their technical-track art history program, but I don’t know much about the school or the city. It has one of the few North American graduate programs in art conservation, but from what people have said here, I’m not seeing much about the school’s general reputation in the humanities. And it’s hard to get a read on what Kingston is like.

She’s doing an IB diploma with French as one of her HLs, and thinks she should be able to get up to speed with French fairly easily. Probably not enough to take classes in French yet, but at least enough to live in a bilingual city.

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Anonymous wrote:Those who know Canada, what can you tell me about Queen’s?

My DD was looking at their technical-track art history program, but I don’t know much about the school or the city. It has one of the few North American graduate programs in art conservation, but from what people have said here, I’m not seeing much about the school’s general reputation in the humanities. And it’s hard to get a read on what Kingston is like.

She’s doing an IB diploma with French as one of her HLs, and thinks she should be able to get up to speed with French fairly easily. Probably not enough to take classes in French yet, but at least enough to live in a bilingual city.

In Kingston Ontario? thats all English

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Anonymous wrote:Those who know Canada, what can you tell me about Queen’s?

My DD was looking at their technical-track art history program, but I don’t know much about the school or the city. It has one of the few North American graduate programs in art conservation, but from what people have said here, I’m not seeing much about the school’s general reputation in the humanities. And it’s hard to get a read on what Kingston is like.

She’s doing an IB diploma with French as one of her HLs, and thinks she should be able to get up to speed with French fairly easily. Probably not enough to take classes in French yet, but at least enough to live in a bilingual city.

Love Queen's and like Kingston a lot. The vibe is kinda mini-Wisconsin, but prettier and not as sports-crazed (but still extremely spirited by Canadian standards). Very little French actually spoken in either the school or the town. The business ("commerce") school is the university's strongest, but nothing's weak there; the university is in the tier right below McGill/Toronto/UBC. I'm pretty sure Fiske has a write-up on Queen's.

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Anonymous wrote:There are excellent French engineering schools which award students with a Bachelor’s degree (in English) in 3 years, with outstanding outcomes : students go on to grad schools like MIT, Caltech, Stanford,…
Check out the Ecole Polytechnique, CentraleSupelec (joint with McGill).

I didnt realize that these French Unis are rated top in Math, apparently the teaching is in English--does anyone have any experience?

The Masters programs at Polytechnique and Centrale are the most elite programs in France. (The French system is different and the top students do high school -> two years of “prepa” where they study like crazy for entrance exams -> a three year masters program at one of 6-7 top business or engineering schools).

I know many masters grads of polytechnique/ centrale and they do indeed go on to top phd programs, get recruited into top consulting/ finance, etc. Some enormous percentage of French CEO’s went to polytechnique. Basically these schools are the MIT/ Harvard of France along with the top 2-3 business schools.

Recently, both these engineering schools have started bachelor’s programs taught in English to try to be more globally relevant (I assume). Polytechnique has some partnerships with Columbia, which is a good sign. The teaching is presumably top notch but they are definitely new programs so jury’s kind of still out in terms of how “elite” they are and how the graduates fare. I am following progress closely (my kids are 8-10 years out). Worth looking into!

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Anonymous wrote:There are excellent French engineering schools which award students with a Bachelor’s degree (in English) in 3 years, with outstanding outcomes : students go on to grad schools like MIT, Caltech, Stanford,…
Check out the Ecole Polytechnique, CentraleSupelec (joint with McGill).

I didnt realize that these French Unis are rated top in Math, apparently the teaching is in English--does anyone have any experience?

The Masters programs at Polytechnique and Centrale are the most elite programs in France. (The French system is different and the top students do high school -> two years of “prepa” where they study like crazy for entrance exams -> a three year masters program at one of 6-7 top business or engineering schools).

I know many masters grads of polytechnique/ centrale and they do indeed go on to top phd programs, get recruited into top consulting/ finance, etc. Some enormous percentage of French CEO’s went to polytechnique. Basically these schools are the MIT/ Harvard of France along with the top 2-3 business schools.

Recently, both these engineering schools have started bachelor’s programs taught in English to try to be more globally relevant (I assume). Polytechnique has some partnerships with Columbia, which is a good sign. The teaching is presumably top notch but they are definitely new programs so jury’s kind of still out in terms of how “elite” they are and how the graduates fare. I am following progress closely (my kids are 8-10 years out). Worth looking into!

thank you! we are dual canadian cit so cost is nice, but my kids want the American hand holding of small colleges you pay a premium for....

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Anonymous wrote:There are excellent French engineering schools which award students with a Bachelor’s degree (in English) in 3 years, with outstanding outcomes : students go on to grad schools like MIT, Caltech, Stanford,…
Check out the Ecole Polytechnique, CentraleSupelec (joint with McGill).

I didnt realize that these French Unis are rated top in Math, apparently the teaching is in English--does anyone have any experience?

The Masters programs at Polytechnique and Centrale are the most elite programs in France. (The French system is different and the top students do high school -> two years of “prepa” where they study like crazy for entrance exams -> a three year masters program at one of 6-7 top business or engineering schools).

I know many masters grads of polytechnique/ centrale and they do indeed go on to top phd programs, get recruited into top consulting/ finance, etc. Some enormous percentage of French CEO’s went to polytechnique. Basically these schools are the MIT/ Harvard of France along with the top 2-3 business schools.

Recently, both these engineering schools have started bachelor’s programs taught in English to try to be more globally relevant (I assume). Polytechnique has some partnerships with Columbia, which is a good sign. The teaching is presumably top notch but they are definitely new programs so jury’s kind of still out in terms of how “elite” they are and how the graduates fare. I am following progress closely (my kids are 8-10 years out). Worth looking into!

thank you! we are dual canadian cit so cost is nice, but my kids want the American hand holding of small colleges you pay a premium for....

Check out Mount Allison and, if French is solid (for the area, not the school), Bishop's.