Canadian Immigration and ACCA, CIMA, CFA or CMA

[Savak]

Hey Toronto Boy

Its been a while. I sent my academic documents to the ICAO for preliminary evaluations towards the Minimum 17 Credit hour courses. They took 9 months to evaluate me, but in the end they ended up giving me credit for 6 courses i.e.

1) Introductory Accounting 1
2) Introductory Accounting 2
3) Cost Accounting 1
4) Cost Accounting 2
5) Economics
6) Financial Management

But i have to do these courses from a university in Toronto

1) Intermediate Financial Accounting 1
2) Intermediate Financial Accounting 2
3) Advanced Financial Accounting
4) Advanced Accounting Elective
5) Taxation 1
6) Taxation 2
7) Auditing 1
8) Auditing 2
9) Auditing and IT
10) Canadian Business Law
11) Business Information Systems

I applied to both Wilfrid Laurier University and York University to take these courses and Mashallah i have been admitted to both the programs. Btw my family also applied for Canadian Immigration in 2009, we had our medicals done in July 2011 and we are expecting some good news on that front by Feb 2012. I received my ICAO evaluation in Nov 2011 so i had to apply urgently to the universities for admission, its pretty surprising they offered me admission on Short notice for Winter 2012, but this admission has only been intimated via email, the offer letter will take time to get to me as its being sent via normal postage.

So right now i have requested the unis to deffer my admission to next Semmester in May (Spring) 2012 by which time i should hopefully inshallah receive the residency visa. I actually wanted some advice, I was always led to believe that York University is a much higher ranked University compared to Wilfrid Laurier but some people i have run into say WLU is a better option than York. I would like to add Cost, travelling is not such a big deal but i would like some insight which University is a better choice to go in terms of reputation, alumni etc.