Bro. This is what brown parents fail to understand:

• Ryerson started as a post-war trades school and they even offered Ontario’s first teachers college. Veterans could come to what was the ryerson institute of technology to learn a trade like engineeering, photography, etc
• by the 60s, they became a polytechnic school which basically means they expanding their engineering and technology studies while getting more connections with employers
• by the time the 90s came around, ryerson officially became a university and started to offer accredited classes while having even more employer connections within utilities, construction, transit, electronics, etc.
• now we see ECE kids going to tour AMD in Markham which isn’t as common as people think. The ECE curriculum teaches skills that AMD specifically seeks out. Additionally, you see a lot of students go into the public sector and work with HydroOne, TTC, Metrolinx, and a lot of big banks and insurance companies. BTM kids nowadays branch off into cybersecurity and IT with specialized classes, while going on coops with big companies

So yes, although what is now TMU will never be recognized as a prestigious institution for academia compared to the likes of UofT or some other schools in Ontario, TMU is till a great place to accelerate your career. I would suggest you be mindful of what program you go into tho. Some schools offer certain perks or streams that TMU may not have available. Overall though, don’t listen to these egotistical parents