studying in mcgill

Yes, it is expensive to attend McGill if you're not a resident of Quebec. Tuition is roughly 3 times as much for residents of other Canadain provinces so I shudder to think how much it would be for an international student. The cost of living can be quite high, depending on where in the city you live. Westmount and Notre Dame de Grace are the two areas closest to the university, and the rents are very high. The city is very culturally diverse with a huge ethnic population, but remember that it is in Quebec and because of that, you should have at least some rudimentary French so you can read the street signs. You don't want to be like the tourists from New Jersey who drove the wrong way into a tunnel and died in a fireball because they didn't know that the red signs on both sides of the road that said "RECULEZ" meant "BACK UP". There are nursing jobs available in Quebec for new grads, but that is one of the provinces with the lowest pay scales and poorest benefit plans in the country and there is a requirement that nurses be fluent in French.

My daughter is a PhD candidate at McGill right now and she's getting a good education from a school with a stellar reputation. But she has sacrificed a lot to be there and does not plan to remain there when she's finished this degree. (She's gotta do a post-doc after that... sh'es been going to school for 25 years already and I'm despairing of her ever getting a real job!)

Yes, it is expensive to attend McGill if you're not a resident of Quebec. Tuition is roughly 3 times as much for residents of other Canadain provinces so I shudder to think how much it would be for an international student. The cost of living can be quite high, depending on where in the city you live. Westmount and Notre Dame de Grace are the two areas closest to the university, and the rents are very high. The city is very culturally diverse with a huge ethnic population, but remember that it is in Quebec and because of that, you should have at least some rudimentary French so you can read the street signs. You don't want to be like the tourists from New Jersey who drove the wrong way into a tunnel and died in a fireball because they didn't know that the red signs on both sides of the road that said "RECULEZ" meant "BACK UP". There are nursing jobs available in Quebec for new grads, but that is one of the provinces with the lowest pay scales and poorest benefit plans in the country and there is a requirement that nurses be fluent in French.

My daughter is a PhD candidate at McGill right now and she's getting a good education from a school with a stellar reputation. But she has sacrificed a lot to be there and does not plan to remain there when she's finished this degree. (She's gotta do a post-doc after that... she's been going to school for 25 years already and I'm despairing of her ever getting a real job!)