sirpsiti Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 Who has a better department in computer science? Also living wise which place is better? I heard that it rains much in Vancouver. Is that right? Any help is highly appreciated.
cs_phd Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 UBC CS is better overall as per rankings. But, it depends on what you want to do. Are you applying for PhD or MS and what is your area of research ?
sirpsiti Posted April 16, 2015 Author Posted April 16, 2015 I am applying to PhD. With data mining as my research area. In my research domain also, UBC wins. So may be joining UBC only; Thanks a lot for your help on this.
MathCat Posted April 16, 2015 Posted April 16, 2015 Vancouver is a pretty nice place to live. It does not rain as much as people say. It mostly rains in the fall and winter, and that's better than a blizzard! It is expensive to live in Vancouver, and the commute to UBC is pretty long, but it's a nice campus and close to the beach.
sirpsiti Posted April 16, 2015 Author Posted April 16, 2015 (edited) Thanks a lot for your response. This will be of great help. One more question in this regard. Since you said, commute to UBC is long, what mode of communication will be good? I plan to not own a car to save some money, and also donot want to spend too much time in commuting. Will biking be a good option? Given bearable rains. Also staying in campus can be other option. But it seems that they have a long waiting time. Any idea to check on the waiting list, before actually applying for it? Edited April 16, 2015 by sirpsiti
MathCat Posted April 16, 2015 Posted April 16, 2015 Depending where you live, you can bike. When I visited, I met students who bike to campus - usually around 30-40 mins to do so, but that's because they wanted to live on their own and so lived further away to afford that. You could live closer than that and bike. Staying on campus is very expensive and a bit isolated from the city life, if that bothers you. You'll get a bus pass as part of your student fees - most students bus there. One issue is that buses are pretty busy, so you can get passed by or have to stand the whole way. Definitely don't get a car, it's too expensive as you have said. Obviously the commuting time will depend a lot on where you live. Most students I talked to were taking around 45 minutes to commute, but there are places you could live that would take 2-3x as long (don't live there!).
twentysix Posted April 16, 2015 Posted April 16, 2015 Vancouver is a pretty nice place to live. It does not rain as much as people say. It mostly rains in the fall and winter, and that's better than a blizzard! It is expensive to live in Vancouver, and the commute to UBC is pretty long, but it's a nice campus and close to the NUDE beach. fify with pertinent information.
sirpsiti Posted April 17, 2015 Author Posted April 17, 2015 Thanks a lot for providing me such detailed information. All the information will be of very much help. Cannot appreciate enough.
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