Quick facts
At a glance
Founding date of McGill University: 1821
Degrees granted in 2012-13: 8,282
Downtown campus: 845 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec
Macdonald campus: 21111 Lakeshore Rd., Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec
Leadership
Chancellor: Michael Meighen
Chair, Board of Governors: Stuart ("Kip") Cobbett
Principal and Vice-Chancellor: Suzanne Fortier
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Students
38,779 students
Most Rhodes Scholars of any Canadian university
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Faculty and staff
1,674 tenured and tenure-stream faculty
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Faculties and schools
11 faculties and 11 schools
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Research
$483.5 million awarded in research funding in 2011-2012 (McGill and affiliated hospitals)
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Notable firsts
Nature of radioactivity (Ernest Rutherford)
First artificial cell (Thomas Chang)
First Internet Search Engine (Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan)
Inventor of the Charge Coupled Device used in digital cameras and photocopiers (Willard Boyle, BSc'47, MSc'48 and PhD'50)
Health
Canada's first faculty of medicine, established in 1829
4 teaching hospitals affiliated with McGill
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Tuition
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Financial highlights
Total Revenue for 2013: $1.18 Billion
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