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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
What is the failure rate? Shockingly low I suspect. The need for income means more students pass. That's not a good sign. Sorry, that's not 'top notch, at least not in my opinion.
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Not sure what you mean about the need for income. Queen's is no different than any other Canadian university with tuition rates at around $8k per year, the rest being funded by the government and the legacy trust funds from the alumni.
Can't speak to the other faculties, but the engineering one has a low failure rate (around 5% if I recall) as their academic entrance requirements are very high so they get a good grade of student (financial support directly from the university/alumni if required) and also they really work at providing the best teaching they can.
For example, if an engineering student fails first year, which they can do first time away from home and all that stuff, they offer something called J section which essentially is the first year repeated in a compressed fashion in the summer. If you don't pass there - same standard by the way - then you are out, but most students who enter J section end up buckling up and getting through.
Thankfully both of my kids made it through the normal path and graduated in 4 years.
This was quite different from other Canadian engineering schools that typically had failure/drop out rates on the order or 50% as means of weeding out the lower end, albeit with lower entrance requirements. As a parent who funded the education, I quite liked the fact that once they got in, given good academic performance, they would not be artificially weeded out and have to seek another discipline.
Queens is not considered a weak degree at all - at least here in Calgary where the Queen's mafia is pretty strong and pretty elevated in corporate positioning.
D.