By offering prices in the same ballpark (<50% higher) with other top unis (UBC/UofT), McGill was a good choice for high caliber students across Canada. This means, for QC students, an opportunity to study with the brightest across Canada, rather than having to move to a different province.
Now, a lot of top Canadian students will choose other options as they would be $36k+ less than what they would have paid at other top unis. Long term, this will hurt the reputation of McGill, as it will become the school of “my parents paid for my tuition fees” and “I had to take a 75k loan because I couldn’t get into UBC/UofT”.
This could, potentially, result in more francophone students choosing to leave Montreal to study at a school with top students coming from all over Canada.
Long term, this will hurt the reputation of McGill, as it will become the school of “my parents paid for my tuition fees” and “I had to take a 75k loan because I couldn’t get into UBC/UofT”.
Harvard seems to be doing just fine with that same reputation.
Harvard has need based financial aid, and it’s probably the most generous in the US. For a family of 4 making 100k a year sending their kids to college, not only would the aid cover all of the tuition/books/personal expense, it’d cover over half of the housing and food (12k of 20k covered).
So it’d be significantly cheaper for a student from Ontario to go to Harvard than McGill.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Déry framed the increase, the proceeds of which will go into government coffers, as a way to balance the funding of English and French universities in the province.
Nearly a third of the students who attend Bishop’s are from outside the province, the university’s principal and vice-chancellor, Sébastien Lebel-Grenier, said earlier this week.
In an email response to CBC News Wednesday, McGill’s media relations office confirmed it had postponed announcing a $50 million investment over five years “to enable more people from its community to learn or improve their French.”
The university was alerted a few days ahead of Déry’s tuition hike announcement that changes were coming that could affect the school’s financial situation but was not informed what those changes would be, according to the email, which was unsigned.
“Finding the initial funding for McGill’s investment in the promotion of the French language was extremely difficult,” it wrote.
I think we’re missing the point here and it’s hitting hard and strong the representation of the city of Montreal as the metropolis of Quebec."
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