McGill University

McGill University is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada .

It was founded in 1821 under a royal charter granted by King George IV, and its name was officially changed in 1885 to McGill University .

McGill's main campus is located on the slopes of Mount Royal in downtown Montreal, the second campus is in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, and the third campus is located on the island of Montreal, at the Gault Nature Reserve.

McGill's faculties include the Faculties of Arts, Medicine, Education, Engineering and Management.

The university offers degrees and diplomas in more than 300 fields of study, some of which are available in both English and French.

About 32.2% of McGill's students are international, admitted from more than 150 countries.

Why McGill University?

McGill University is one of two universities outside the United States, alongside the University of Toronto, that are members of the Association of American Universities.

The university is also the only Canadian member of the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) at the World Economic Forum.

According to major educational publications, McGill is among the top universities in the world, and for the past 16 years it has been in the top ten in the country in the annual ranking of Canadian universities (Maclean's).

Among its prominent researchers is Ernest Rutherford, who discovered the atomic nucleus and carried out his Nobel Prize-winning research on the nature of radioactivity while working as a professor of experimental physics at the university.

Other notable McGill inventions include the world's first artificial cell and the web search engine.

McGill University is internationally the most diverse medical-doctoral research institution in the country.

It is notable that the university has the highest average entering grades among Canadian universities.

McGill University counts among its alumni and faculty members 12 Nobel laureates and 147 Rhodes Scholars, as well as 16 billionaires, the current prime minister and two former ones, two Governors General of Canada, 15 justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, at least eight foreign leaders and more than 100 members of national legislatures.

Among the alumni of McGill University are also 8 Academy Award winners, 10 Grammy Award winners, at least 13 Emmy Award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, 121 Olympians with more than 35 Olympic medals, the inventors of the game of basketball and of modern organised ice hockey, and pioneers of gridiron football, as well as the founders of several major universities and colleges.