#27 McGill University (McGill)

Basic Infomation:

World Position: No. 27

Nature of University: Public

Research Findings: Very High

Number of students: 39,736

Number of Teachers: Unkown

Number of international students: 12,794

Overview:

McGill University (McGill), founded in 1821, is located in Montreal, Canada's second largest city, and is Canada's top public research university.

McGill University is one of Canada's most famous institutions of higher learning and one of the world's leading universities. Students from more than 150 countries/regions come to McGill, and our student body is the most internationally diverse of all research universities in the country. McGill is the university with the highest academic requirements in Canada. Its application qualification line, admission average score and course difficulty are the highest in all Canadian universities. The school has the highest proportion of doctoral students in Canada and has cultivated the largest number of Nobel Prize winners in Canada. Its number of Rhodes scholars far exceeds that of other Canadian universities and ranks 4th in the world.

McGill is world-renowned for its excellent teaching and research projects. Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize for radioactive properties research conducted at McGill University, which is part of McGill University's long-term innovation tradition, including the invention of artificial blood cells and plexiglass. Today, professors at McGill University are establishing a new field of epigenetics, developing alternative energy sources for crops, and promoting human achievement in every imaginable field.

In addition to first-class teachers, McGill University is also known for attracting the brightest students from Canada, the United States and all over the world. The average admission score of McGill students is the highest in Canada. We are committed to cultivating the best students. This has helped our students win more national and international awards on average than their peers at any other university in Canada. The prestigious Rhodes Scholarship has been awarded to 145 leading McGill students nationwide.

Canada's current supreme leader Justin Trudeau and current Governor Julie Payette both graduated here. In addition to politics, the school has also nurtured many billionaires. Not only does it have the largest single alumni donation in Canadian history, it also has the highest average donation from alumni in the country. There are 12 Nobel Prize winners, 145 Rhodes scholars, 3 Canadian prime ministers, 8 foreign heads of state, 11 Grammy winners and 9 Oscar winners among the alumni of McGill University.

McGill is one of the 26 universities in the world in the Global University Presidents Forum, the only university in Canada to be invited, and one of only two non-American universities in the American University Association. McGill University and its alumni assisted in the establishment of many universities such as Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of British Columbia. The current president of Stanford University, Mark Thill-Lavigny, and the current president of Cambridge University, Stephen Dussie, are also McGill University alumni.

McGill has been ranked No. 1 in the Canadian Medical and Doctoral University Rankings by Macleans Magazine for 16 consecutive years. It is also ranked 27th in the 2022QS World University Rankings and 40th in the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. 

About Undergraduate:

McGill undergraduates have the highest average entering grades of any Canadian university. Among admitted students, the median Quebec CEGEP R-score was 31.9, while the median grade 12 averages for students entering McGill from outside of Quebec ranged between 93.2% and 94.4% (A). For American students, the median SAT scores in the verbal, mathematics, and writing sections were 730, 730, and 730, respectively. The median ACT score was 32.

About Postgraduate:

Research conducted at McGill is often interdisciplinary and cuts across programs and academic units (departments, schools or institutes). It is recommended that you:

Refer to the program list to ensure that you select the appropriate area. Although renowned as a research-intensive university, McGill also offers a wide variety of professional programs which are not research-based.

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Interfaculty Studies

Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

Arts

Dentistry

Education

Engineering

Law

Desautels Faculty of Management

Medicine and Health Sciences

Schulich School of Music

Science