加拿大的大学没有专业排名。最权威的排名杂志是Macleans,分成三类:undergraduate, comprehensive and medical school来排。第一类是以本科为主的小大学,不以研究为主;第二类是没有医学院但也做研究的大学,第三类是有医学院、门科类齐全的大学。总的是来说,medical school类排在前几位的大学都历史悠久,名声显赫。排在第二类前几位的大学,则各有特色,以创新为长。这三类的排名在这里可以查到: http://www.macleans.ca/universities/
Carleton U. has the IT Security and this prof. is the Canada Research Chair in Network and Software Security, and who has some large fundings and projects. 加拿大的高等教育还是很优秀的,虽然没有美国名校的名气大,但很多研究项目还是领先的。不要盲目崇拜美国。 http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/
If you really want to be his student, you must make an appointment with him or see him at his office time. I believe the professors won't be office if not their office time. And when I contact my supervisor at the first time, he just replied "See me at my office time".
Among the universities that refused to provide information directly to Maclean's in the fall of 2006 were: University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, McMaster University, University of New Brunswick, University of Manitoba, Université du Québec network, Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, Ryerson University, Université de Montréal, University of Ottawa, York University, Concordia University, University of Western Ontario, Lakehead University, Queen's University, Carleton University, and University of Windsor. The withholding of data served as a means of voicing the universities' displeasure with the methodology used to determine the Maclean's ranking.[7] Indira Samarasekera, president of The University of Alberta, further discussed this in the article, "Rising Up Against Rankings," published in the April 2, 2007, issue of Inside Higher Ed.[8][/SIZE][/SIZE]