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McGill University - McGill Montreal, despite having a royal charter, McGill College was inactive until 1829 when the Montreal Medical Institution, which had been founded in 1823, became the college's first academic unit and Canada's first medical school. The Faculty of Medicine granted its first degree, a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, in 1833; this was also the first medical degree to be awarded in Canada. The Faculty of Medicine remained the schools only functioning faculty until 1843 when the Faculty of Arts commenced teaching in the newly constructed Arts Building and East Wing (Dawson Hall).
James McGill, born in Glasgow, Scotland on 6 October 1744, was a successful English and French-speaking merchant in Quebec. Between 1811 and 1813 he drew up a will leaving his Burnside estate, a 19 hectare (46 acre) tract of rural land and 10,000 pounds to the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning in McGill University - McGill Montreal.
Upon McGill's death in December 1813 the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, established in 1801 by an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, added the establishing of a University pursuant to the conditions of McGill University - McGill Montreal will to its original function of administering elementary education in Lower Canada. As a condition of the bequest, the land and funds had to be used for the establishment of a "University or College, for the purposes of Education and the Advancement of Learning in the said Province." The will specified that the college would be required to bear his name and must be established within 10 years of his death; otherwise the bequest would revert to the heirs of his wife.
On March 31, 1821, after protracted legal battles with the Desrivieres family (the heirs of his wife), McGill College received a royal charter from King George IV. The Charter provided that the College should be deemed and taken as a University, with the power of conferring degrees.
McGill University - McGill Montreal is a research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools consistently top national and international rankings, such as those published by Maclean's, and among the top 20 universities in regional and worldwide rankings such as the Times Higher Education (THE) – QS World University Rankings and top 100 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities.
McGill University - McGill Montreal main campus is set upon 32 hectares (80 acres) at the foot of Mount Royal in Downtown Montreal. A second campus, the Macdonald Campus, is situated on 6.5 square kilometres (1,600 acres) of fields and forested land in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 30 kilometres west of the downtown campus.
With 21 faculties and professional schools, McGill University - McGill Montreal offers degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study, including medicine and law. Although the language of instruction is English, students have the right to submit any graded work in English or in French, except when learning a particular language is an objective of the course. Over 34,000 students attend McGill University - McGill Montreal, with international students comprising one-fifth of the student population.
With around 200,000 living alumni worldwide, students and professors at McGill University - McGill Montreal have been recognized in fields ranging from the arts and sciences, to business, politics, and sports. Notable alumni include six Nobel Laureates (out of eight Nobel Laureates affiliated with the university), three astronauts, two Canadian prime ministers, four justices of the Canadian Supreme Court, three foreign leaders, nine Academy Award winners, three Pulitzer Prize winners, and twenty-eight Olympic medalists. A nation-leading 131 students have also won Rhodes Scholarships to pursue graduate studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
McGill University - McGill Montreal bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant, from Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university. Founded in 1821, McGill is one of the oldest universities in Canada, chartered during the British colonial era, 46 years before the Canadian Confederation.
McGill University - McGill Montreal full- and part-time student population includes 23,758 undergraduate and 8,756 graduate students. Of all graduate students, 490 are postdoctoral researchers and 943 are medical residents or fellows. Of the entire student population, 57.3% are from Quebec, while 23.7% come from the rest of Canada. While the McGill University - McGill Montreal is located in a Francophone province, only 17.5% of the students claim French as their first language compared to 52.8% English and 29.4% 'other'.
McGill University - McGill Montreal students represent a diverse geographic and linguistic background. International students hail from about 160 different countries. The pluralities of McGill University - McGill Montreal international students are from the United States, making up 37% of all international students and 49% of all undergraduate international students. A growing number of American students are attending McGill University - McGill Montreal; they represent 9.7% of all undergraduates and 6.9% of all students at the university. Many are attracted to the culture and dynamism of Montreal, McGill University - McGill Montreal reputation, and the relatively low tuition costs in comparison to many top public and private universities in the United States.
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McGill University - McGill Montreal International students make up 19.0% of the student population, the largest percentage of any Canadian university.
McGill University Address
The address of McGill University is 845 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0G4.
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McGill University Website
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