Question: If you're American why did you go to university in Canada? :/

Jillian Scudder answered on 18 Jun 2015:

lol, I assume this one’s mostly for me.

I did my undergraduate degree in the US, but moved to Canada to do my PhD. A PhD is a PhD, they’re pretty much the same anywhere, so there’s no particular downside in terms of the credential to doing it outside of the US or anywhere else. At the time I was applying to graduate school, the US’s economy was in the middle of the 2008 crash, so there were both a lot more people trying to avoid the job market by applying for grad school, and the grad schools had no money, because of the economy. So they both combined to make it ridiculously difficult to get into grad school in the US that year. Fortunately I had also been advised to apply to a school in Canada – they had a good program – and Canadian schools were less hard hit, so I was able to move up there and do my doctorate. I wound up really liking my studies there, so it was for the best, I think!