- Founding date of McGill University: 1821
- Degrees granted in 2008-09: 7,675
- Downtown campus: 845 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec
- Macdonald campus: 21,111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec
Outstanding Students
- 35,300 students
- 6,829 (19.4 per cent) international students
- 7,975 (22.6 per cent) graduate students
- More Rhodes Scholars than any other Canadian university
- 6,247 (17.7 per cent) of our students claim French as their first language
Student Enrolment Fall 2009
| Full-time undergraduate | 20,854 |
| Part-time undergraduate | 3,877 |
| Full-time graduate | 6,034 |
| Part-time graduate | 1,941 |
| Postdoctoral fellows | 610 |
| Residents and fellows | 1,083 |
| Other | 901 |
| Total enrolment | 35,300 |
Enrolment by Mother Tongue
Enrolment by Place of Origin
Outstanding Faculty
- 1,627 tenured and tenure-track faculty
- 159 Canada Research Chairs allotted to McGill
- 147 endowed teaching and research chairs
- 135 members of the Royal Society of Canada
- More than 900 tenure-track professors hired under an ambitious recruitment program since 2000. Of these, 185 were Canadians repatriated from other countries.
Enrolment by Academic Unit Fall 2009
| 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. | 558 | – | – | – | 558 |
| 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 | – | 114 |
| Science | 4,209 | 889 | 120 | – | 5,218 |
| Subtotal | 22,298 | 6,864 | 1,693 | 90 | 30,945 |
| Continuing Education | 2,433 | 1,111 | – | 811 | 4,355 |
| Total all students | 24,731 | 7,975 | 1,693 | 901 | 35,300 |
Outstanding Learning Opportunities
- More than 300 programs of study
- 11 faculties and 10 schools
- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
- McGill School of Environment*
- Faculty of Arts
- School of Social Work
- McGill School of Environment*
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Education
- School of Information Studies
- Faculty of Engineering
- School of Architecture
- School of Urban Planning
- Faculty of Law
- McGill School of Environment*
- 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
- McGill School of Environment*
*The McGill School of Environment falls under four faculties
Outstanding Research
- $432.118 million awarded in research funding in 2008-09 (McGill and affiliated hospitals).
- 147 international research and development partnerships totaling $93.4 million.
- Over 40 spin-off companies operating as stand-alone or merged entities, including two new start ups created in 2008-09.
- 193 government and industry sponsored research contracts valued at over $23 million 2008-09 (67 per cent Canadian government and private sector, 19 per cent U.S. government and private sector and 14 per cent international).
- 19 licences and options to license granted to the private sector in 2008-09, for a cumulative total of more than 170 licences.
- Prolific innovation with over 120 new inventions reported.
- One of the largest patent portfolios among Canadian universities. In 2008-09, 38 national & 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.
Other Academic Units
- Centre for Continuing Education
- Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office (GPSO)
Tuition Fees 2009-10
| Quebec Students | $1,968 |
| Rest of Canada | $5,501 |
| International Students | $14,000 – $23,000* |
*Depending on program
RESEARCH FUNDING 2008-09: $432.118M
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 2008-09
| Operating grant, Quebec government | $343,057,000 | |
| Indirect costs of research, federal government | $17,076,000 | (i) |
| Research grants & contracts | $274,843,000 | (ii) |
| Tuition & fees | $169,815,000 | |
| Gifts & bequests | $84,344,000 | |
| Investment & interest income | ($33,017,000) | |
| Other revenue | $100,497,000 | |
| Total revenue | $956,615,000 |
- Total amount received from the federal government, for which $8.2 million is paid to teaching hospitals.
- The amounts included for research grants and contracts are those for McGill University only, and exclude those associated with its hospitals.