McMaster University is a public research university located in the city of Hamilton Ontario. The campus is sited in the Golden Horseshoe along the western end of Lake Ontario. On the northern boundaries side of the campus it is popular for the destination for walkers who make use of the many trails that connected the campus to the Royal Botanical Garden Lands. McMaster University operates six academic faculties, comprising Engineering, Health Science, Humanities, Social Science, Science and the DeGroote School of Business. McMaster is a member of the Group of thirteen. (Group of research intensive universities in Canada). In addition, McMaster’s contains four libraries in the campus which comprises 1,303,969 volumes and 3,495,444 total of resources, including videos, maps, sound recording, and microfilm. The four libraries are being broken down to Mills Library houses the Humanities and Social Science collections, Innis Library houses content which supports the academic and research interests DeGroote School of Business, Thode Library houses academic material of various disciplines of science and engineering, while the Health Science Library houses books pertaining to the field to medical sciences.

Student’s life on Campus:

McMaster offers their students McMaster University Student Centre which is the center for student life and programming. It contains a café, study space, common areas, and a number of administrative departments, including the CIBC Conference Hall. Also the McMaster University Student Centre contains an office for student’s organizations like the McMaster Students Union and The Silhouette weekly newspaper as well as other services such as the Campus Health Centre and the campus dentist. On the other hand the campus carries twenty dining outlets located throughout the campus and including two major residence dining facilities. Moreover, the dining faculties also offers students who are vegetarian with a completely vegetarian café known as Bridges café, which made voters voted the University for the Country’s Most Vegan Friendly University through PETA for a number of years.

McMaster is aiming to pursue student to get in touch with the campus sprits by offering students with a varieties of clubs and event to join like the Faculty Student Societies which includes, Commerce Society, McMaster Engineering Society, Bachelor of Health Science Society, Humanities Society, Science Society, Social Science Society, and the Society of Arts and Science Students’.



DeGroote School of Business Campus



McMaster Class room for Lectures

York University

York University is one of the largest university in Toronto which the main Campus is located in the North York Region at Keele and Steeles. The main campus has 457 acres and is home of more than 55,000 students in both full time and part time program. The university also has other campus at  Glendon (Bayview and Lawrence) with 85 arces, The Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, Schulich School of Business (King and Bay) and  Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Centre (Dundas and Yonge)

The University has total 47,062 undergraduate students, 6,143 graduate students and 3,226 international students in both full ­and part- ­time programs. The University also has more than 1,400 full time faculty, 2,297 full-time support staff and 1000 contract faculty and teaching assistant

He university has totally 10 faculties, they are:

• Environmental Studies
• Education
• Fine Arts
• Glendon
• Graduate Studies
• Health
• Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
• Osgoode Hall Law School
• Schulich School of Business
• Science and Engineering

York's Libraries

York’s libraries are located in five buildings; 4 in the main campus and 1 in Gledon Campus

• Scott Library, housing Sound & Moving Image, Maps, Archives & Special Collections
• Peter F. Bronfman Business Library
• Steacie Science and Engineering Library
• Osgoode Hall Law School Library
• Leslie Frost Library on Glendon Campus

The University provides a wide range of resources including over 40,000 electronic journals, 300,000 ebooks, 2.5 million volumes, and signifi­cant collections in film, music, maps, archival materials and microforms.

Student Life

The intellectual, cultural and social life at York is one of the richest in Canada:

• Approximately 270 student clubs and organizations
• Sport York offers 19 interuniversity sport teams, 15 sport clubs, 44 intramural sport leagues, special events and 10 pick-up sport activities offered daily
• Student publications including the weekly newspaper, Excalibur, and the bi-weekly bilingual newspaper, Pro Tem
• Student broadcast outlets including Radio York, CHRY 105.5FM, and Radio Glendon, CKRG 800AM
• The Art Gallery of York University devotes itself to exhibitions of the most challenging forms and issues of contemporary art and the Glendon Gallery, the only fully bilingual gallery in Toronto, emphasizes francophone artistic expression
• The Student Centre houses over 45 student clubs and services including the Lee Wiggins Childcare Centre, a food court, art gallery, travel agent, student lounges and The Underground restaurant/club

How international students talk about York and their student life

Ryerson University

Ryerson University is located in the busiest intersection in downtown Toronto. Ryerson University is known for the school of business. Ryerson is composed of 31, 000 undergraduate students, 2,170 graduate students, and 65, 400 certificate and continuing education students. Ryerson is one of Canada’s largest undergraduate business school and the faculty of engineering, architecture and science as well as the faculty of arts, faculty of communication and design, and the faculty of community services.

Down on Bay Street in Toronto’s financial district is Ted Rogers School of Management. Ted Rogers School of Management is also Canada’s largest undergraduate management program, along with several graduate programs such as, Bachelor of Commerce programs are grouped into: Business Management and Technology Management, Hospitality and Tourism Management, and Retail Management. Ted Rogers is known it leader in entrepreneur education in Canada and houses in the Ryerson University Entrepreneurship Program and is the largest entrepreneurship programs in Canada.

  

One great benefit about Ryerson is they offer a great faculty of Community Services. It has multi-disciplinary programs such as health, early childhood education, social justice and community development. Students will have the opportunities to work with different mentors, supervisors, practitioners, and professionals to ensure a career experiences that they will need to help them get a taste of first hand work of their future careers.

Ryerson University also provides students with a continuing education program where students can take part time classes that fit their work schedule to make their learning experiences more flexible. Another great benefits for the campus is recently the university is expanding and is one of the largest expanding in the history, with six new buildings down on to Yonge Street which gives students the advantage to have more relax space or free time to take a break off learning and explore down the Yonge Street to different properties like, Sam the Record Man Store, Future Shop and World of Posters. Ryerson also have a Ryerson Theatre which is the largest theatres in downtown Toronto with over 1200 seats. The theatre is home to several red carpet premieres as part of the Toronto International Film Festival. Ryerson University is a great school to learn and to enjoy your time while learning with all the great faculty that is provided and is located in the heart of downtown Toronto.