McGill University is a high-ranking one of international prestige. It also happens to be a public University with a relatively low budget and costs little even to foreign students, as compared to other similar ranking Universities. I see it as a sign of success and efficiency in the public University sector.

However, let us not forget the successes of the private University sector. As any quick glance at University rankings will reveal, the United States dominates the field. Of course, it has ten times the population of Canada, something that has to be considered. But Canada has three Universities in the top hundred, in contrast to the United State’s fifty-nine, rather than the thirty that would seem proportional.

I’ve often heard people complain that, though it is true that the United States is renown for its Universities, that they are far too expensive for the common family to afford. Of course, Harvard does not filter its students on merit alone (though it still offers many ways for the most brilliant students of this world to get in, regardless of their economic status). But on the whole, it seems that Universities are perfectly accessible:
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