Admission to U of Waterloo (MS/CS) ! Some confusions !!!

[deadcoder]

Originally Posted by pagfloyd

hey deadcoder, thnx for your post.
assuming I am getting full financial support in both the universities, which one would be better in terms of joining the industry after MS? [a recent salary survey suggests switzerland has the highest avg. pay for sw eng. and canada is just behind the US at around 8 or 9].
IT Pay around the World Survey 2007: Switzerland pays the highest salaries followed by Denmark, Belgium, UK and Ireland

Undoubtedly ETH-Zürich... ETH-Zürich is far far better than UofWaterloo. So, you should go for ETHZ if you get full scholarship.

Again, for salary perspective, you are right. Let me give you an example. A software engineer of Google, who was working at their head office (MTV, California) got much better high scale when he switched to Zürich office. Again another considering thing is; one has to pay less amount of Tax in Swiss than US (When the state is CA,NY...).

By the way, may I know how did you get full scholarship from ETHZ? by excellence scholarship? I also applied there and got accepted. As their full scholarship doesn't cover all of the expenses, I had to deferred their offer for the next semester as a backup.

Best of luck...