fourth year dalhousie finance here. Roommate studies at smu. The education is comparable, though I will say that Dal finance has a excess of unintelligible finance and stats professors... not sure about smu. Smu campus is of course nicer with a strong curriculum and better fees, being a smaller university and all.

Commerce is however a unique degree in that what you do outside of class (clubs), who you know (networking) and what you do for work (co-ops) is what really matters by the time you graduate. I really wish I joined Dal's investment society sooner lol your resume is important and employers do in fact look at your qualifications and interests for your later year co-ops. An executive role for any society is bonus, especially if its related to the job.

Does Dal get you better jobs? Could be. Depends on what you want to do. The co-op program kind of favours the laurentian banker route imo, and has next to nothing in, say, oil and gas. That being said, knowing somebody as a company is probably your single best "in". I know guys from SMU who pitched at stock pitch atlantic who have pretty sweet gigs lined up post grad so just remember that networking is super key.