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Originally Posted by Neoxphuse
I say this based on feedback from other people who have done it already.
Yes, UBC is ranked as one of the best schools in UBC. My issue is the teaching. All I ever hear is how most teachers there are unapproachable or only have a couple of hours out of the week available for students. How, most of their time is spent on research. How exams are unrelated to the questions that they have faced in class.
And then the class size of 100+ students. I don't know if this is the case for most classes. And I guess the other thing is how most universities, SFU also, you have to take 1 year of BS classes that have nothing to do with what you want to do.
I never went to UBC and never applied, it wasn't my first choice. But I'm putting out what others have said to me about it.
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you are pretty clueless to put it kindly...
Teachers are unapproachable and only have few office hour? Yea.. because many professors at UBC are world-class researchers and their time is best utilized in research, not in trying to re-teach what's been covered in lecture. Students are supposed to make use of study groups, and TAs.
Most of their time is spent on research? Yea... I would like to see humans make advances in this world. Do you?
If you cannot keep up with the university style of learning, you should attend community colleges where the teacher-to-student ratio is much lower. But even then, if you need a teacher to spoon feed you every single concept, you should reconsider whether advanced education is the right path for you (I mean that with no offence).