I graduated from Psych. at McGill a few years ago.
Very nice school. Lots of history. Here is a list of many of the famous people who've attended the "Harvard of Canada".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...versity_people
7 nobel prize winners, 1 pulitzer prize winner, 2 former Prime Ministers, 126 Rhodes Scholars etc etc etc....(source: wikipedia)
Its right smack in downtown. ~30,000 students. Amazing nightlife in the city. Almost all within walking distance of the University. Great public transit (most of the time). I've traveled to so many countries around the world and heard the same thing over and over again...Montreal has the most beautiful women in one city that anyone of these several people have seen (told to me over several years by several unconnected people). I dont necessarily agree with that, but I hear it all the time. Another thing is that when I traveled around Europe, Asia and the U.S. I had a "McGill" backpack on and people were always striking up conversations about the University, or that they had gone there, or that they know someone there or that they heard someone famous had gone there.
I moved to B.C. cause there is no question that the winters there are very very very bad. I hate the cold. Put up with the weather there for 25 years and couldnt take it anymore. But the 5 months of the year when its warm (May - Sept.) its so beautiful there. So much history and culture. Architecture is amazing. Multi-culturalism is great.
Im not bashing U of T or Toronto cause I dont know enough about either to speak on the matter. But I'm just giving props and big ups to Montreal.
I will say that the French/English thing was getting really boring!
To be less biased here is a list of U of T faculty:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...Toronto_people
Just as many famous people.
