American students heading to Canada for college

At a time when many U.S families are finding they have fewer dollars than they expected to spend on higher education, the price of a Canadian undergraduate degree is looking attractive...

Across the country, about 9,000 Americans studied at Canadian universities and colleges this year, up from 2,300 just 12 years ago, according to Canada's embassy in Washington...

For a foreign student, for instance, Dalhousie estimates that tuition, books, housing and health insurance run $23,636 a year. At Boston University, a school that often competes for the same U.S. students, the equivalent annual cost comes to $61,794...

"When we recruit we do not talk about being cheap," said Morton Mendelson, the university's deputy provost of student life and learning. "We say come to McGill. It's a world-class education. But people who are buying the education can do the math."