Comparison between Canadian Ph.D. and US Ph.D.

[miserablefunction]

As many of you are already aware of fantastic qualities of Canadian statistics programs(Toronto, UBC, Waterloo, Mcgill), I am wondering if their faculty job prospect are at the level of top 20 US Ph.D. programs. If not, what schools in US do you think are at the same level as the above four in terms of faculty job prospect in North America or Asia? Are those four programs as reputable as schools like PSU and NCSU or Purdue and Minnesota?

In addition, what about their curriculum and research environment? School like Waterloo seemed to have so many faculties in math, which could be ideal for someone who wants to collaborate with adjacent fields of statistics. Any opinion would be appreciated!

Edited September 6, 2018 by miserablefunction
clarification

[Stat Assistant Professor]

Publish in a respectable journal (or journals) and you will be in good shape to secure a top postdoc.

Publish a first author paper in Biometrika, JASA, JRSS-B, or Annals of Statistics, and you might even be able to get a faculty job right after finishing the PhD. (For biostatistics, a publication in Biometrics would probably put you in very good shape too).

 

That's what the most important thing for the academic job market is.