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Mcgill University

MCGILL UNIVERSITY

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Location

Montreal, Canada

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Established

1821

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Total Students

34,840

Ranking

QS Ranking (2023)

30

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Particular: Details

Location: Montreal, Qubec, Canada

Established: 1821

Total Students: 40,036

Percentage of International Students: 25%

Mcgill University, found with a purposeful sense of “questioning the usual”, was established in the year 1821 by the royal charter of King George IV. It is located in the heart of Montreal (Canada) and had a total strength of 40,153 students in fall 2019. 31.9% of this population belonged to international students.

  • The institute is organized into 11 main faculties plus schools offering more than 400 programs in over 80 departments. While some of the McGill University courses like Biomedical Engineering, Investment Management and Medicine are believed to be exceptionally brilliant, its Computer Science and Religious Studies programs are apparently one of the best among all Canadian universities.
  • With an average acceptance rate of 41% for fall 2019, McGill University offers admissions to most of its programs in the month of January. Though the higher rate of acceptance could be a little misleading, aspirants must note that the admission at university is no walk in the park and still requires a 90+ entering grade. However, graduates are guaranteed placement within 3 to 6 months of completing their degrees, making it worthy of all the effort.
  • Academic skills development
  • Career development
  • Counselling
  • Disability support
  • Medical centres (Brisbane and Melbourne)
  • International student services
  • Student advocacy
  • Campus ministry
  • Student safety
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
The university is sprawled across the green fields of around 1,600 acres in its 2 lush campuses of Downtown Montreal (Main) and Macdonald campus. Downtown Montreal Campus
  • Offers all the mainstream courses. It houses a large number of candidates.
  • In-house residence for undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Facility to have an apartment around Montreal campus.
Macdonald Campus McGill University’s MacDonald Campus harbours Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, the Institute of Parasitology, and the McGill School of Environment.
University rankings
Global rankings
ARWU World[14]90
QS World[18]35
Times World[16]42
Times Reputation[161]39
Times Employability[162]17
U.S News & World Report Global[15]43
Canadian rankings
ARWU National[14]3
QS National[18]2
Times National[16]3
U.S News & World Report National[15]3
Maclean’s Medical/Doctoral[163]1

 

McGill counts among its alumni 12 Nobel laureates and 145 Rhodes Scholars, both the most of any university in Canada,as well as five astronauts, the current prime minister and two former prime ministers of Canada, the current Governor General of Canada, 15 justices of the Canadian Supreme Court, at least eight foreign leaders, 28 foreign ambassadors, over eight dozen members of the Canadian Parliament, United States Congress, British Parliament, and other national legislatures, at least 10 billionaires, nine Academy Award winners, 11 Grammy Award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, two Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients,[note 5] and at least 16 Emmy Award winners. McGill University or its alumni also founded several major universities and colleges, including the University of British Columbia,the University of Victoria, the University of Alberta,theSchulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Dawson College.

 

In the arts, McGill students include four Pulitzer Prize winners, Templeton and Berggruen Prize winner Charles Taylor,[268] essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul, a Companion of the Order of Canada along with Charles Taylor, Juno Award winners Sam Roberts and Donald Steven, singer-songwriter PritaChhabra and William Shatner, best known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk on Star Trek and winner of several Emmy Awards. Nine Academy Award winners studied at McGill.  Poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen majored in English at McGill and graduated in 1955. Composer and six-time Grammy award winner Burt Bacharach studied music at McGill, and Win Butler and RégineChassagne of the Grammy Award winning group Arcade Fire met while studying at McGill.[271] In the sciences, students include doctors, inventors, five astronauts (out of 14 total selected in the CSA’s history) and scientist Mark J. Poznansky, a member of the Order of Canada. Dating back to 1908, McGill graduates and faculty have received a total of 12 Nobel Prizes in disciplines ranging from Physiology, Medicine, Economics, Chemistry and Physics. YoshuaBengio a McGill graduate, won the 2018 Turing Award, the most prestigious award given in the field of computing.

Some politicians and government officials both within Canada and abroad are McGill alumni, including three Canadian prime ministers, the incumbent Governor General of Canada, and 14 justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. Julie Payette, current Governor General of Canada, received her Bachelor of Engineering in 1986 before joining the Canadian Space Agency in June 1992. The engineer and 29th Governor General of Canada participated in two space missions, logging more than 25 days in space. Daniel OduberQuirós earned his degree in philosophy at McGill in 1948 and became president of Costa Rica from 1974 to 1979. VairaVīķe-Freiberga completed her PhD at McGill and was elected as president of the Republic of Latvia in 1999, serving until 2007, as the first female president in Eastern Europe after Turkey’s TansuÇiller. Ahmed Nazif also completed a PhD at McGill in 1983 and has served as the youngest prime minister of Egypt since the republic’s founding in 1953. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor under President Jimmy Carter completed both his B.A. and M.A. degrees at McGill in 1949 and 1950, respectively. Two United States Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, as well as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill have been bestowed honorary degrees from McGill University. Roosevelt and Churchill received Honorary Doctorates of Law at Citadel Hill in Quebec City, on September 16, 1944, while Bill Clinton accepted his Honorary Doctorate on October 16, 2009.

McGill students are also recognized as athletes, including various members of Canadian national teams and 121 Olympians of varying nationalities who have won over 35 Olympic medals.[24] In 2020, McGill alumnus Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who first became the first medical school graduate to play in the NFL in 2018, became the first McGill graduate to win a Super Bowl as No. 76 of the Kansas City Chiefs. McGill alumni also include James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, as well as the pioneers of the modern version of organized ice hockey, and the modern game of American football.

Professors at McGill have won 26 Prix du Québec, 14 Prix de l’Association francophone pour le savoir and 21 Killam Prizes. Twelve Nobel Laureates have studied or taught at McGill, among them Otto Hahn, who was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the nuclear fission of uranium and thorium.

If you are planning to study abroad in Canadaand targeting this university, you can get in touch with AEC. Give us a call on +91-8448446609 or 011-43334444 to get assistance on call. You can also write a query and sent it to us at [email protected].

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