What Students Say
Likes
- I liked the reputation that the college holds with local employers. Employers are always willing to prioritize Carleton students for roles at their companies for Internships as well as permanent roles.
Dislikes
- As I said above, the location of the University is a bit of the problem because the Ottawa region has long and cold winters.
Required Exams for Admission
Scholarship and Program Structure. The co-op option helps to gain some work experience during the degree apart from making some money. The community is nice and supportive as well, with a good amount of resources available for all sorts of problems that one might bump into. I love the course structure and teaching methodologies applied by the faculty, but I dislike the Canadian winters. They're depressing and make you want to skip onto work that's important to hand in within a given time frame.
Course Curriculum
Each course is 0.5 credits, and I need to complete 20 credits to graduate from the program (40 courses in 4 years). Some classes are small (1:8 ratio) and some are huge (1:200). Usually, the mandatory computer science classes would have a size of anywhere between 100-200.
Campus Life
The campus life is pretty vibrant here. A lot of events, workshops and festivals keep taking place on campus. I've been pretty involved with a lot of clubs on campus which regularly hold engagement events to boost community involvement.
Placement
All tech firms require software developers. The median salary after graduating from my school's department of computer science would be around 80-120k Canadian Dollars, working in a good company as a developer.
Accommodation
Private room - good location, transit access, safe neighborhood, good room mates. Living with people from different nationalities gave me a good exposure to their lifestyles and perspectives towards work and life in general.
Fees
Funding from parents for tuition fees. Part-time jobs and teaching assistantship has helped me manage my living expenses here in Canada. It's not cheap, but its the same all across North America for undergrad programs, unless you're on a full-ride.
