Recession, unemployment drive Americans north

Good luck guys, all our good jobs went south or to Asia.

If Americans are coming here to pay non-resident tuition because it's cheaper than resident tuition back home, there's something wrong. I have trouble believing that, and wonder if they're able to game the system somehow.

Anyway, sounds like a good deal. They'll pay taxes up here, but then all go south for the superior healthcare, so they won't cost us anything.

Nope - for the most part it's true. The thing is that the best schools in the USA charge a fortune, while the state run, second-rate universities are cheaper, but have far less cachet than the better known schools.

For example, my wife got into Business school here at the UofA and her international friends paid about $15,000 per year for and MBA. Many American universities charges over $20,000 per year for an MBA - some go as high as $50,000 per year. $10,000 is a lot of savings - especially if you have to finance your education and pay interest on it after you graduate.

The article seemed to be comparing state unis to provincial ones, I can't beleive that our out of province fees are low than their in state ones. The uni of Manitoba doesn't exactly have a lot of cachet vs the elite private US schools either.