Dude. You're probably not going to like the answer. Unless you're in a specialized program that is leading to a Masters, PHD, or professional program, undergrad programs are pretty much all the same. It really comes down to how a few factors:
1) Where do you want to live?
2) How big a school do you want to go to?
3) How much do you want to spend?
4) Who are you trying to impress?
5) Who has the prettiest buildings?
From an academic perspective, you're pretty much using all the same learning materials regardless of the institution.
Professors (for the most part) are professors.
TA's are pretty much TA's. Some speak better English than others.
I've been out for 11 years now (U of A Bsc Honors), and I did the student politics thing. I've seen the inner workings of the ivory tower called academia. I even applied (kissed ass) and got accepted to a Master program. I've talked this over will all my buddies who went to Queens, Western, U of T, UBC, McGill, etc. We figure it probably doesn't matter at all.
You will be stunned when you graduate and realize: "Wow, I thought I'd be a lot smarter than this". In many courses you are still learning a lot of pretty basic stuff even in 4th year. Certainly not the kind of stuff that one university is going to be able to teach way better than another.
To be perfectly honest, I'd forgotten 90% of what I learned in University by the time I was out for 5 years. So does it really matter where I learned it?
Yes, it probably makes a difference if you're trying to get into a Masters program or land a job at a prestigious law firm. But for 95% of university attendees, Lethbridge is just as good as Queens.
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