School has one of the highest drop out rates in al...

School has one of the highest drop out rates in all of Ontario for Engineering.

I mean, what else to be expected when they let in students by the truck loads with 60-65% Grade 12 averages. Poor students are fooled into thinking that the same level of effort that got them 60's in high school will become engineers with the same amount of effort.

What the school doesn't tell you is two fold:

1) In order to keep their accreditation, they have to maintain academic standards, so students who got 60's in grade 12 cannot possibly keep up with the academics. And students with 60's and 70's make up a bulk of the newly admitted students at UOIT.

and

2) Even at 11 years old, the school is so new that engineering firms in and around the GTA, still ask "UO...what?" when hiring. Common theme among UOIT graduates, is having to tell people about what/who/where their school is.

Do yourself a favour, work/study harder and go to an established school.

Majority of my nephews friends who graduated UOIT with engineering degrees are working in non technical/menial labour jobs, while his sister who went to Queen's for engineering had 6 job offers even before she graduated. Ironically, he graduated with higher grades from UOIT than she did from Queen's.

Now, I am not blowing smoke here, but basing this on my 23 years as a technical recruiter for some of the largest engineering firms in Canada.

I have no affiliation with UOIT or Queen's or any other university.