Western University

Western University in London, Ontario is a U15 research university best known for the Ivey Business School, among the most respected business programmes in Canada. The Ivey Advanced Entry Opportunity is what a Kazakh applicant should understand first. It admits students to Ivey at the point of university entry rather than requiring a competitive application in second year, and it requires two activity essays of 2,500 words each. Five thousand words of assessed writing is by some distance the largest supplementary requirement of any Canadian university. For a student writing in a second language it should be started months ahead rather than weeks, drafted repeatedly, and read by someone who can judge English prose. Engineering and health sciences are further strengths. London sits between Toronto and Detroit with living costs well below Toronto, and the campus culture is unusually residential.