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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quality is spread around the country, not concentrated in 5 schools. There are way more than 5 top notch colleges in the US so it isn't a useful comparison.

Canada -- 22% of its students are in the top 5 universities; translate that to the US and you would need 3.3 million students in the top 5 schools, or 660,000 each.

UK -- 5% of its students are in the top 5 universities; translate that to the US and you would need 750,000 in the top 5 or 150,000 each.

For reference, the largest US campus, Texas A&M has 75,000 students.[/quote]

Curious, where did you find that 22% figure?  In any event, Canadian policy is that if a school admission rate gets below a certain threshold, they view that as a negative.  As a result, they instruct the university to find a way to accept more kids.  It is far more common for students to not live on-campus, so housing is not considered an issue.

The other huge difference is the top Canadian colleges are all public universities. [/quote]

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