Canada has some of the lowest foreign student tuitions of anywhere in the world, but you still pay a premium to attend as a foreign student (often 3 to 4 times the tuition that a resident would pay). u00a0While many Canadian universities are very well rated, they also have a reputation for not being particularly easy or forgiving. If you can't cut it, you're out.u00a0 Schools like Yale and Harvard run somewhere around a 98-99% freshman retention rate.u00a0 I think that UoT is around 91% and they brag about their high retention rate. u00a0To keep your entrance scholarship at a university like McGill you need to keep a 3.7 GPA. US Colleges typical require a 3.0. (though it may be more stringent for specific schools or scholarships)u00a0In short, the Canadian admission process is an extension of a socialist culture. The universities will do everything possible to give everyone a fair chance. If the admissions people think that you have a good chance of being successful, you can get in. However, to give everyone that chance, they need the slackers to fail fast and make room for the people who are serious about their education. u00a0Finally, US universities are particularly attractive to foreign students (and domestic) because of the opportunities that a US education opens up for US jobs. (There are about 17-18M full time jobs in Canada and about 120M in the US) Even if the students go back to their home country, they'll have a better chance of working for a local subsidiary of a US company or a company that does business with a US entity. Canada just doesn't have that same pull. u00a0That's just my opinion, of course. As a Canadian ex-pat, I'm a bit biased.