McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from over 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country.
McGill is a public university, founded in 1821.
McGill is recognized around the world for the excellence of its teaching and research programs. Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning research on the nature of radioactivity was conducted at McGill, part of a long tradition of innovation on our campuses that includes the invention of the artificial blood cell and Plexiglas. Today our professors are building the new field of epigenetics, developing alternative energy sources from crop plants and driving human achievement in every field imaginable.
In addition to a stellar faculty, McGill is known for attracting the brightest students from across Canada, the United States, and around the world. McGill students have the highest average entering grades in Canada, and our commitment to fostering the very best has helped our students win more national and international awards on average than their peers at any other Canadian university. The prestigious Rhodes Scholarship has gone to a nation-leading 145 McGill students.
McGill is home to more than 10,000 international students, who make up over 27 per cent of our student population. The Staff at International Student Services works hard to provide international undergraduate, graduate, visiting and exchange students with a host of non-academic services and resources.
ISS offers a host of services to undergraduate and graduate degree students, exchange/visiting students, post-doctoral fellows, and other students who opt in to pay McGill Student Services fees.
McGill University is a world's top research university located in Montreal Quebec Canada. It is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. As of the 2014-2015 school year, McGill was ranked 1st in Canada among all its major/research universities in the Maclean's 24th annual rankings, maintaining this position for the tenth consecutive year.
Internationally, McGill ranked 24th in the world and 1st in Canada in the 2015 QS World University Rankings. This is the 12th year in a row that QS has ranked McGill in the top 25 of the world's universities. It was ranked 38th in the world by the 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. According to the 2011 Emerging/Trendence Global Employability Ranking, McGill was ranked 19th in the world for popularity among major employers.
