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Characters: NBC News: Tom Costello, Emily Cox, Recruiter, Yvonne Garand, Morton Mendelson, & Glen Kimball

tom It may only be a few hours drive from the US border, but for the American students at Montreal’s prestigious McGill University, Canada has become a passport to a much more affordable college degree. Twenty-two hundred Americans make up 12% of McGill’s undergrads, 12%! Among them, Emily Cox of Chicago.

emily Well, it came down between McGill and Georgetown University and it just came down to money. Georgetown is forty-five to fifty thousand. McGill is twenty. And so, obviously, I chose McGill.

tom In fact, a lot of Americans are choosing Canada. Nine thousand are now studying here that is up 50% since 2001. Attending sixty Canadian schools like McGill, Carlton, University of Toronto, Dalhousie, and UBC, but at 30 to 60 percent less than what private US schools charge.

Recruiter Canadian schools are easier to get into but in some cases but they are harder to stay in.

tom At a large high school in Vermont recently, it is a sign of the times. As parents and students crowd into a Canadian college recruiting night, the biggest issue money.

yvonne It looks like that we will save between twenty and thirty thousand dollars a year.

tom Why are Canadian schools so much cheaper? Because the Canadian government provides a large chunk of their funding and Americans can still use their 529 college saving accounts, U.S. loans and even apply for scholarships. While some Canadian schools require Americans to submit ACTs or SATs many more don’t. No interviews no essays. In Canada, admission all comes down to grades.

morton We are not trying to sell cheap education. We are selling a quality education.

tom There are differences few fraternities or sororities and not a lot of college football or basketball in the great white north.

Glen So if you are coming to Canada you definitely need to be prepared to watch hockey.

tom A quality education in Canadian dollars, for a lot of Americans the price is right. Tom Costello NBC News, Montreal.

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From “Northern Exposure”, by NBC News Archives. (2011). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Copyright 2011 by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Adapted with permission.

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