Student review [#100711] for Electrical and Computer Engineering
at University of New Brunswick - UNB

I came to this school with previous educational experience in electrical engineering. The first year is the core for all engineer; physics, calculus, etc. The best teacher’s I’ve had to date were all from other departments…

The material in years 2 and 3 is completely incoherent and unorganized. Just a bunch of engineering, circuit and math facts randomly and poorly “thrown” at students. They test so frequently the majority of my peers get stumped on fundamental circuits (ex RLC or a novel op-amp circuit). The testing solely prioritizes memorization and brute force because it’s so frequent, which does nothing for long-term retention and utilization.

The department (as of 2026) lacks adequate teachers. The courses are all setup so the worst teachers (ones the admin *KNOW* don’t deliver the course well) are teaching the most critical classes for graduating on time.

Various issues with ECE2722 and ECE3031, which are both a full-year setback if you fail. I twice had to call the assistant dean of engineering down on a professor due to syllabus disputes. This was after begging the chair of the ECE department to act (which they did not). The AD resolved the issues and actually did their job as the teacher was in clear violation of their syllabus. This is all stuff I did not have time for, in an already busy term/year.

The projects and group work are a joke, even as a senior as 80% of the work ends up being AI or AI inspired.

I’ve heard AMAZING things about the graduate level courses and professors, near world-renowned.

But at this point, this whole school just feels like a scam. They cheated me on nearly all of my credits from transfer. There’s no real onboarding/advising session when entering UNB.

If you’re a super eager person who KNOWS this is what they want to do, and you’re up for a minimum of four years of exhausting lack of standards, go for it. I’m serious though, it is better to go university –> college to get your 6 years than vice versa. College will actually accredit you for courses you take, because they’re not sycophantically money hungry (opinion).

To give you an idea of how highly they think of their teaching (which again, hasn’t matched my college experience [ironic]): I had 1 missing competency from an outline in College (out of 10+) and I had to retake 3 (relatively basic) electronics courses… THREE.

Otherwise, I would highly recommend another school or a college level program to get you started.

For further reference UNB’s graduate program expects a 3.7GPA+, while schools like Waterloo expect a 3.3+ (last I checked, may change)…

They really seem to think they’ve cultivated a culture of caring, development and their student’s growth, but they just want the $6-8k+ you’ll be giving them every term for a VERY lackluster program.

I especially don’t recommend if you have previous educational experience.

The $10 000 I spent on a college level course was WAY better of an experience; Transformative, hard, and better entry level employment opportunities.

Nothing near the absolute clown show of this school that’s costed me 5x as much…

Just because they have a nice campus and accommodations doesn’t mean they’re a good school – don’t be fooled.

Also, just an observation, a lot of reviews written about UNB sound like they’re straight from a chatbot (not on this site). Go read some.

I also had some insight into their accreditation process as an educational institution. They “randomly” select only 4.3GPA students to talk about their experience to the accreditation board. They were all told to not say anything negative about their experiences before the meeting…

I’ve had classes that “accredit” design in engineering. That whole “accreditation” was a project in which the professor makes you copy (yes, directly copy) his work for a transformer design. They then pass this off to the accreditation body as design in engineering. The government quite literally made them do this for transparency, and they’re still not being entirely transparent (not surprised).

Again, a scam in my opinion.

The final thing I’ll say is that post-secondary is LARGELY what you make of it. The only reason I’ve grown here is because of the hard work I’ve put into my education; not the school I’ve attended. You can still have a great experience in this school. The reason I think I haven’t is because I had my standards set high by a school that costs 1/5 of the tuition, and actually cared about their students outside of a crumby slogan and some posters.

My advice would be
1) Work hard, stay consistent
2) If you know a courses’ material, challenge the course for a credit
3) Do not go to this school for undergraduate, especially if you have post-secondary education in ECE.

Everything presented in this review has been purely my experience, and heavily features my opinion.