Ryerson Mathematics
which university should I choose to attend, Ryerson or UofT?
I applied as an international student to Ryerson University and University of Toronto, both in Canada. I got accepted to do a Bsc computer science at Ryerson and Bsc computer scicence, mathematics and statistics at U of T. I would like to be a programmer/software engineer.I have to make a decision by next friday and I’m not sure which to choose.
Which degree would be better considering the field I would like to get into? Which school is better? Which one should I choose?
thanks alot 
Ryerson is viewed as being a technical school, and as such you can get a lot out of it as far as contacts and such go. U of T however is viewed as being Ivy league (And I know people on the faculty so I’m a little bias.) Obviously the weight of being an Ivy League school, and hosting professors from Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford make a degree obtained there more appealing to the general public.
I unfortunately can’t attest to the teaching methods of either school, however if you plan on programming games, science/physics applications or speciality business/government applications, then the mathematics and statistics studies will help your future research.
As for the programming it’s my experience with programming and computer sciences course that you get out of them what you put into them regardless of where you are.
I currently have a friend finishing his final semester of Comp Sci at Waterloo of all places who is under the belief he hasn’t learned a thing in the course. However we both went to the same (priviledged) high school, our programming teachers returned for additional training at Waterloo themselves each summer, so we were essentially taught the same concepts, the only things he was exposed to at university were new languages. Which if you understand the underlying concepts of IPO, logical flow, and modular design, it doesn’t much matter what language is in use.
So of course the broader spectrum makes more sense from that point of view. However I would suggest trying to find information on the teach procedures of both universities, one will undoubtedly cater more to your personal learning style over the other.
Kevin Ryerson w Art Bell-March 9, 1999 Pt 8
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