McGill University

About us

Location Montreal, Canada Funding Type Public
No of Students 40036 Establishment University
Founded In 1821 Estimated Cost of Living 20635 CAD
Address 845 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada

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.

Why?

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.