- Students
- Faculty & Research
- Rankings
- Faculties & Schools
- Finance & Administration
- Sustainability
- Alumni & Donors
- Health
STUDENTS
Enrolment
By mother tongue
| 47% | English |
| 20.5% | French |
| 32.5% | Other |
By place of origin
| 47.25% | Quebec |
| 22.38% | Rest of Canada |
| 30.37% | International |
By Faculty
| 1,777 | Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
| 9,311 | Arts |
| 706 | Interfaculty BA & SC |
| 278 | Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences |
| 2,590 | Education |
| 4,637 | Engineering |
| 803 | Interfaculty Studies |
| 907 | Law |
| 3,176 | Desautels Faculty of Management |
| 5,895 | Medicine and Health Sciences |
| 851 | Schulich School of Music |
| 6,292 | Science |
| 2,290 | Continuing Studies |
Average entering R score* of undergraduates - 2021
Source: CRÉPUQ
31.6
McGill
28.1
Quebec
(average excluding McGill)
Proportion of international students – 2021
[As a percentage of degree-seeking students]
Source: U15 Data Exchange
30.8%
McGill
20.6%
Canadian research universities
(average excluding McGill)
Proportion of PhD students – 2021
[As a percentage of degree-seeking students]
Source: U15 Data Exchange
11.6%
McGill
6.6%
Canadian research universities (average excluding McGill)
FACULTY
1,778
Tenured and tenure-stream faculty
147
Endowed teaching and research chairs
182
Canada Research Chairs allotted to McGill
234
Active Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
RESEARCH
Funding - Fiscal year 2020-2021
[including affiliated hospitals]
Source: CAUBO
| $391.005M | [56.9%] | Federal |
| $40.071M | [5.8%] | Industry |
| $117.893M | [17.2%] | Not-for-Profits and Individuals |
| $79.358M | [11.5%] | Provincial (QC) |
| $59.086M | [8.6%] | Other (includes foreign, investments, endowment, and miscellaneous revenues) |
| $687.413M | [100%] | Total |
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168 government- and industry-sponsored RESEARCH CONTRACTS valued at $14 million (excluding affiliated hospitals) in FY2020-21.
24 CLINICAL TRIAL agreements signed between April 2020 and March 2021 (internal reporting calendar).
Revenue of $4.3 million from a total of 84 CLINICAL TRIALS in FY 2020-21.
202 active licenses and options, including 29 licenses and options to license granted to the private sector in 2021.
McGill reported 129 disclosures, submitted 65 national and international patent applications, received 16 new patents, and spun out 14 companies in 2021.
[All contracts and clinical trials figures exclude affiliated hospitals.]
RANKINGS
MEDICAL-DOCTORAL UNIVERSITIES
for 18 consecutive years
[Maclean's University Rankings 2023]
[QS World University Rankings 2023]
[Times Higher Education World University
Rankings 2023]
[Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022]
FACULTIES & SCHOOLS
Faculties
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Law
Desautels Faculty of Management
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
School of Continuing Studies
Schulich School of Music
Faculty of Science
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
Financial highlights 2021-22
Total combined sources of revenue
2022: $1.58 billion
| Government of Quebec to fulfill teaching mission | $420.7 | |
| Tuition and fees, including domestic, Canadian, international students and Self-funded programs | $389.1 | |
| Government of Canada research and infrastructure grants, including Tri-Agency and CFI | $259.2 | |
| Research and infrastructure grants and contracts, recognized to the extent expenses are incurred, including MEES, US government grants and other sources | $233.7 | |
| Sales of goods and services generated by student housing and hospitality services, bookstore sales, faculty programs, community services (ex. School of continuing studies, Executive Institute, Dental clinic), student services, such as athletics and health services | $126.7 | |
| Investment and interest income from endowment income distribution and contributions to operations as well as unrealized gains and losses on investments. | $83.0 | |
| Gifts and bequests | $66.8 |
SUSTAINABILITY
Community Engagement
Year in Review
A new undergraduate course open to students from all faculties, FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, was launched in Fall 2022. The course features a multidisciplinary team of instructors who present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.
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As part of McGill’s Bicentennial celebration, the University hosted a Sustainable Futures Festival in September, featuring cross-campus and community events. This included tree and plant giveaways, a sustainability career fair, talks by esteemed guest speakers, an award ceremony, and a showcase event for student-led sustainability projects and research. More than 5,000 plants were distributed to the McGill community as part of the celebration.
Learn about McGill’s commitment to sustainability—including how we plan to get to zero-waste by 2035 and carbon neutral by 2040.
ALUMNI & DONORS
Philanthropy by the numbers
[The second-highest fundraising total in McGill history]
The McGill Fund shows the power of collective giving
Our Alumni
McGill has over 300,000 alumni living in over 185 countries.
70+ alumni branches and constituent groups worldwide
350 events were hosted globally in collaboration with McGill Alumni Association volunteers
2022 highlights
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Donors collectively gave over $3.95M during McGill24, the University’s annual day of giving. The event inspired around 5,000 people to make a gift to McGill, including almost 1,800 first time donors.
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Donors have helped McGill build the #1 student aid program in Canada: the Maclean’s magazine annual rankings consistently award McGill the top spot in the Scholarships and Bursaries category. And according to details from a study published in La Presse earlier this year, McGill is the university that welcomes the second largest proportion of students from lower socio‐economic backgrounds in Quebec.
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Renowned architect Moshe Safdie donated his professional archive to McGill. The gift consisted of over 100,000 pieces, including loose sketches, sketchbooks, models, drawings and correspondence, as well as his personal apartment at Habitat 67.
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McGill announced the largest-ever gift to a Faculty of Education in Canada: $29M from Sylvan Adams. The gift established the Sylvan Adams Sports Science Institute, which aims to improve elite human performance and promote healthier living across the human lifespan.
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With a joint gift of $26M to McGill and Université de Montreal, Lorne Trottier has cemented Montreal’s status as a global hub for space research. Trottier’s support for the newly renamed Trottier Space Institute at McGill will help advance our understanding of the universe.
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Thanks to gifts from Victor Dahdaleh totalling more than $30 million, McGill launched the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine. The Institute will accelerate advances in global health using genomic medicine to inform patient diagnosis and care.
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The Irving Ludmer Family Foundation ushered in a new era for collaborative brain research with a $15.3M gift to establish the Ludmer Centre Single-Cell Genomics Brain Initiative. The gift will fund new scientific research positions focused on investigating the brain one cell at a time.
HEALTH
McGill is home to Canada's first faculty of medicine, established in 1829.
Canada's second largest hospital-based research facility is located at the McGill University Health Centre, with 550 researchers and clinicians, 1,200 graduate and postdoctoral students, and close to $170 million research funding.
Affiliated Teaching Hospitals:
- McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), representing six teaching hospitals affiliated with McGill:
› Montreal Children's Hospital
› Montreal General Hospital
› Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute
› Montreal Chest Institute
› Lachine Hospital and Camille-Lefebvre Pavillon
- Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
- Douglas Mental Health University Institute
- St. Mary's Hospital Center