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Major English-speaking countries

	UK	USA	Canada	Australia	New Zealand	Ireland
Student visas	UK	USA	Canada	Australia	NZ	Ireland
Reviews of universities	Times	US News	Macleans	AEN
TV networks	BBC	CNN	CBC	ABC	TVNZ	RTE
Official tourist information	UK	USA	Canada	Australia	New Zealand	Ireland
Wikivoyage article	UK	USA	Canada	Australia	New_Zealand	Ireland

Ratings of world universities

Times (UK) newspaper top 200
Newsweek magazine (US) top 100
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) rankings

Information by country

USA

Information for Chinese students coming to the US; some of it applies to any Western country. There is a lot of material; printed out it makes a whole book.

The US covers about the same range of latitudes as China. States such as Florida or California have a climate much like Southern China while Northern states are as cold as Heilonjiang or Canada.

Hawaii is the closest part of the US to Asia and many of the state's residents are of of Asian ancestry. It is a beautiful area with several universities.

The UK

The most famous universities in England are Oxford and Cambridge, both several hundred years old. Sometimes they are referred to together as "Oxbridge". Scotland's University of Edinburg is also quite old and has a fine reputation.

The "red brick" universities area group of universities built in the 19th and early 20th centuries, generally considered quite good.

University of Birmingham in England's second-biggest city
University of Bristol
University of Leeds
University of Liverpool
University of Manchester
University of Sheffield in the midlands
University of Reading near London
Queen's University, Belfast in Northern Ireland
University College London
University of Exeter
University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the North-East
University of Southampton on the South coast

Of course Britain has dozens of other universities as well.

Canada

City	Province	Population	Universities		Climate	Chinatown	Comment
			old, good	newer	(compared to Harbin)
Victoria	BC	80,000		U of Victoria	warmest in Canada		provincial capital
Vancouver	BC	2.1 million	UBC	Simon Fraser	warmest in Canada	old, huge	Beautiful city, ocean and mountains
Calgary	Alberta	1.1 million		U of Calgary	(same)		oil and cowboys
Edmonton	Alberta	1.1 million		U of Alberta	(colder)		oil, Canada's most Northern major city
Winnipeg	Manitoba	700,000		U of Manitoba	(colder)
Toronto	Ontario	5.1 million	U of T	York	(warmer)	old, huge	Largest city, much business
Ottawa	Ontario	1.1 million		Carleton	(same)	large	Capital city, quite beautiful
Kingston	Ontario	150,000	Queens		(same)		Small, pretty city on lake
Waterloo	Ontario	500,000		Waterloo	(warmer)		good U for computers
London	Ontario	460,000	Western		(warmer)		near Toronto, Niagara falls
Montreal	Quebec	3.6 million	McGill	Concordia	(same)		mainly French-speaking city
Halifax	Nova Scotia	370,000	Dalhousie		(warmer)		on ocean, good sea food

There are dozens of universities not on this list though the list has the largest and best-known.

If you can get in, University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver or University of Toronto (U of T) would be good places to go. Both are large well-known schools. Both are in cities with large Chinese communities, easier for you to live in. Simon Fraser and York are smaller and less famous but in the same cities.

Queens, Dalhousie and U Vic (University of Victoria) are worth considering. They are all in small cities, cheaper to live in and easier to learn your way around. Dalhousie is in Eastern Canada, an interesting area but far from other cities. Queens is in a small city but close to several larger ones: Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. Victoria is about two hours by ferry from Vancouver and has a warm (for Canada) climate like Vancouver.

Waterloo has a good reputation for Engineering and Computer Science. Their program includes time working in hi-tech companies as part of the course; you have to write reports about your work for the university and your work supervisor gives you a grade. Pay for this is low, but it fairly often leads to good job offers for graduating students.

Queens and Western (University of Western Ontario) have a good reputation for MBA programs. Carleton, being in the capital, has an MPA (Master of Public Administration) program that is good if you want to work in government. McGill has Canada's best-known medical school.

UBC's school of architecture is the best-known in Canada. Unlike other schools, it is mainly a graduate school; get your first degree in civil engineering and then come study design.

There are some online directories of Canadian universities, at 4icu and uc411.

Australia

There are two associations of universities in Australia. The Group of Eight say they are "Australia's leading universities". There is also a site for all Aussie Universities with a breakdown by city and state.