The software engineering/computer science thing is DEFINITELY crazier. There are like 200 people studying computer related fields in newfoundland (total guess), which is an incredibly tiny number.

Word.

I know for a fact that Lennoxville (where Bishop’s is) has a higher concentration of students than 4.38 per 100. Sherbrooke’s student concentration as a whole is over 20 students per 100 people. That’s not including CEGEPs either. This is calculated from Sherbrooke’s population of 147 000, and UdeS having 35 000 students and Bishop’s having 1 800. Of course I reduced the ratio a little bit (with those numbers its about 0.25) because UdeS has campuses outside of Sherbrooke.

In Victoria, BC (pop: 337 000) when you include UVic (19 500), Royal Roads (2 600) and Camosun College (12 500) the ratio is about 10 students per 100 people.

Of course, all your other points still apply to Montreal. And indeed, Montreal is a much cooler place to party ;)

NOTE: That may have been an exaggeration.

Also, St. John’s has a single university and at least one public college.

Memorial has something like 14,789 undergrads, and around 2,500 grad students.

College of the North Atlantic has 7,939 full time, 1,510 part-time students, and something around 11,000 continuing education students.

When using the City of St. John’s population of 100,646, that gives a ratio of around 26 students per 100 residents. If you calculate based on the Metro population though, you have 183,493, which gives 14.57 students per 100 residents.

BAM! I win skrud!