College in Montreal Canada | McGill University

McGill University
Address :

845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, QC, Canada
(514) 398-4455

 

 

Quick facts

At a glance

Founding date of McGill University: 1821

Degrees granted in 2009-10: 7,739

Downtown campus: 845 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec

Macdonald campus: 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9

Leadership

Chancellor: Arnold Steinberg

Chair, Board of Governors: Stuart ("Kip") Cobbett

Principal and Vice-Chancellor: Heather Munroe-Blum

Provost: Anthony C. Masi

Vice-Principal (Administration and Finance): Michael DiGrappa

Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations): Rose Goldstein (effective December, 2010)

Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine: Richard I. Levin

Vice-Principal (Development and Alumni Relations): Marc Weinstein

Executive Head (Public Affairs): Vaughan Dowie

Executive Director and Senior Advisor (Planning and Institutional Analysis): Pierre Moreau

Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning): Morton J. Mendelson

General Counsel and Director of Legal Services: Line Thibault

Secretary-General: Stephen Strople

Students

• 36,531 students
• 7,294 international students
• 8,301 graduate students
• More Rhodes Scholars than any other Canadian university: 132
• For the third year in a row, McGill students lead the Canadian law school pack when it comes to some of the most coveted jobs for budding jurists: clerkships at the Supreme Court of Canada
• 6,484 of our students claim French as their first language

 

Student Enrolment (Fall 2010)

Full-time undergraduate	21,501
Part-time undergraduate	3,766
Full-time graduate	6,263
Part-time graduate	2,038
Postdocs	624
Residents and fellows	1,273
Other	1,066
Total Enrolment Fall 2010	36,531

Faculty and staff

• 1,627 tenured and tenure-stream faculty
• 159 Canada Research Chairs allotted to McGill, 140 of which have been filled
• 147 endowed teaching and research chairs
• 135 members of the Royal Society of Canada

More than 930 tenure-track professors have been hired since 2000, with nearly 60 per cent recruited from outside Canada. Of these, over 165 were repatriated Canadians.

Again this year, McGill researchers are among the winners of the Prix du Québec. Professor of organizational behaviour and international management at the Desautels Faculty of Management and creative powerhouse Nancy Adler, and renowned HIV/AIDS researcher and activist Mark Wainberg received the highest honour conferred by the provincial government in recognition of their contribution to the social and scientific advancement of Quebec.

An eminent neuroscientist with a contagious passion for discovery, Albert J. Aguayo and an outstanding teacher, a brilliant investigator and an innovative leader, Jonathan C. Meakins (1882 - 1959) join the ranks of the 82 Hall of Fame laureates who have gone before them, inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for 2011. 

Academic Staff :
Tenured/tenure-track professors	1,627
Administrative and support staff (includes trades/services):	3,457

Faculties and schools

Eleven faculties and ten schools

Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
     School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
     School of Environment*
Faculty of Arts
     School of Social Work
     School of Environment*
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Education
     Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Faculty of Engineering
     School of Architecture
     School of Urban Planning
Faculty of Law
Desautels Faculty of Management
Faculty of Medicine
     School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
     School of Nursing
     School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
Schulich School of Music
Faculty of Religious Studies
Faculty of Science
     School of Computer Science
     School of Environment*
 *School of Environment falls under three Faculties 

Other Academic Units

Centre for Continuing Education
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office (GPSO)
 

Fall 2009 Enrolment by Academic Unit

Faculty	Undergraduate	Graduate	Postdocs and Residents	Other	Total
Agricultural & Environmental Sciences	1,083	439	21	90	1,633
Arts	6,645	945	26	-	7,616
Interfaculty B.A. & Sc.	588	-	-	-	547
Dentistry	126	36	42	-	204
Education	1,709	926	8	-	2,643
Engineering	2,813	1,008	58	-	3,879
Law	693	114	2	-	809
Desautels Faculty of Management	2,401	552	6	-	2,959
Medicine	1,453	1,606	1,406	-	4,465
Schulich School of Music	566	277	4	-	847
Religious Studies	42	72	0	-	115
Science	4,209	889	120	-	5,218
Subtotal	22,298	6,864	1,693	90	30,945
Continuing Education	2,433	1,111	-	881	4,355
Total all students	24,731	7,975	1,693	901	35,300

Research

• $432.118 million awarded in research funding in 2008-09 (McGill and affiliated hospitals).
• 223 government- and industry-sponsored research contracts valued at over $25 million 2009-10 (81 per cent Canadian government and private sector, 9.5 per cent U.S. government and private sector and 9.5 per cent international).
• 26 licences and options to license granted to the private sector in 2009-10, for a cumulative total of more than 142 active licences.
• One of the largest patent portfolios among Canadian universities. In 2009-10, 37 national and international patents were granted to McGill.
• McGill hosts top researchers from around the world, notably through the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program and McGill's Japan Visiting Scholars Initiative. 

Health

Canada's first faculty of medicine, established in 1832

Affiliated Teaching Hospitals:

• McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), representing five teaching hospitals affiliated with McGill:
  • Montreal Children's Hospital
  • Montreal General Hospital
  • Royal Victoria Hospital
  • Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute
  • Montreal Chest Institute
• Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
• Douglas Mental Health University Institute
• St. Mary's Hospital Center

Canada's largest hospital-based research facility is located at the McGill University Health Centre, with more than 500 researchers and clinicians, nearly 1,000 graduate and postdoctoral students, and close to $100 million research funding. 

Financial highlights

Total revenue for 2009-2010 (in thousands of dollars):

Grants, Canada:	$173,369
Grants, Quebec:	$416,624
Grants, United States:	$6,396
Grants, other sources:	$21,875
Contracts:	$11,148
Tuition and fees:	$186,966
Sale of goods and services:	$104,024
Gifts & Bequests:	$36,707
Investment & Interest Income:	$44,748
Other revenue:	$43,626
Total:	$1,043,483

Mission, Motto and Coat of Arms

Mission

(adopted in 1991)

"The mission of McGill University is the advancement of learning through teaching, scholarship and service to society by offering to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students the best education available, by carrying out scholarly activities judged to be excellent when measured against the highest international standards, and by providing service to society in those ways for which we are well suited by virtue of our academic strengths."

Motto

Grandescunt Aucta Labore
("By work, all things increase and grow.") 

Coat of arms

The McGill coat of arms (that is, the shield along with the scroll beneath) is derived from an armorial device assumed during his lifetime by the founder of the University, James McGill. The University's patent of arms was granted by England's Garter-King-at-Arms in 1922 and registered in 1956 with Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh and in 1992 with the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada. In heraldic terms, the coat of arms is described as follows: "Argent three Martlets Gules, on a chief dancette of the second, an open book proper garnished or bearing the legend In Domino Confido in letters Sable between two crowns of the first. Motto: Grandescunt Aucta Labore." The coat of arms consists of two parts, the shield and the scroll. 

The coat of arms and other McGill symbols are a source of pride and identification for the University and are protected by trademark.

McGill's Secretariat is the headquarters for matters ceremonial, convocations, special events, the McGill coat of arms and "signature," letters of credence, the University seal, permission to use the University coat of arms and signature.

Community contributions

An innovative McGill microcredit program is helping rural Ghanaian women earn the money they need to feed their children and gain independence. Read more at McGill in the Community. McGill is known worldwide for its teaching and scholarship, but we’re also committed to stepping outside the classroom to serve society in concrete, immediate ways. Whether we’re providing free dental care to needy Montrealers or building AIDS awareness half a world away, McGill’s staff, students and faculty members are constantly finding new ways to enrich their communities – local and global alike.
We invite you to explore McGill's "In the Community" website and discover some of the ways we’re working in our community. You'll also learn more about the many entertaining and educational public activities offered right here at McGill.

Source http://www.mcgill.ca