Simon Fraser University

I’m not exactly sure how you rate a school… so I’m sticking with the silly Berkeley-​grad, Californian tourist perspective.
First of all, damn. This school’s architecture is simple, modern, and gorgeous. I felt like I was in Noah’s Ark with all the intricate stacks of «wood» placed on the top ceiling. The shape and angle of the floor were pretty sexy and it felt more like a upscale office building rather than a school. Everything felt NEW and inviting.
Before my SFU friend left for class, he said there was a mall around the corner from the entrance. WAIT WHAT? A MALL? Yes, indeed, there is a freakin’ mall in this school. I thought it was quite hilarious that the first store you see on the left is a liquor store. I killed some time walking around the mall and using the wifi in their food court.
I never went into a classroom so I can’t really go over that but one thing that really gave this place an extra star for me was their SFU TouchMap located at the entrance. WOW this is totally nuts. The TouchMap is an epic interactive touch-​screen map for the school, with individual classroom descriptions and locations on each level. Mad props to the design and programming team who made this!
SFU Surrey is a pretty neat campus for who people who love modern design and cool beans interactive maps.

This campus is beautiful (ok, well not as nice as UBC), but its a whole lot better than the Burnaby campus. the Surrey campus is surrounded by windows and really has this big, open feel to it. There’s a multitude of Blendz coffee shops to help you stay awake whilst studying. In addition, because this campus is built upon a mall, you have a vast selection of food choices as well to help you procrastinate whilst studying.
The majority of classes that are offered at this campus are all tech classes. From graphic design to computer systems and everything in between. They have quite a few continuing education classes as well for part time students.