McGill University, Canada

McGill University was founded by James McGill in 1821 and since then the university has grown from a small college to a university with two campuses, 10 faculties, some 300 programs of study, and 40,000 students. It also partners with four affiliated teaching hospitals to graduate over 1,000 health care professionals each year. It is Canada’s one of the best known institution of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world consisting of students from 150 countries makes this university most diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. click here.

McGill University is recognized around the world for the excellence of its teaching and research programs. The Ernest Rutherford who got noble prize on the research of the nature radioactivity was conducted at McGill, which is a part of a long tradition of innovation on McGill campuses that includes the few inventions of the artificial blood cell and Plexiglas. The professors in this university are building the new field of epigenetics, developing alternative energy sources from crop plants and driving human achievement in every field imaginable.

Affiliations

• Association of American Universities (AAU)
• Universitas 21 (U21)
• Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI)
• Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
• United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI)
• Universities Canada
• Canadian Bureau for International Education
• Global University Leaders Forum (GULF)

Mission

The mission of McGill University is the advancement of learning and the creation and dissemination of knowledge, by offering the best possible education, by carrying out research and scholarly activities judged to be excellent by the highest international standards, and by providing service to society. In fulfilling its mission, McGill University embraces the principles of academic freedom, integrity, responsibility, equity, and inclusiveness. 

Grandescunt Aucta Labore is their motto.

POINTS OF PRIDE

• RANKING AMONG PEER INSTITUTIONS: This university stands1st in Canada among medical-doctoral universities for 12 consecutive years and 32nd in the world in 2017
• THE FINEST STUDENTS: McGill is known worldwide for its sky-high entering grades, and our students have counted an astounding 142 Rhodes Scholars among their ranks—more than any other Canadian university.
• McGILL FIRSTS: The discovery that atoms are divisible. The first map of the brain's motor cortex., the inventions of Plexiglas, three major sports and the artificial blood cell
• WORLD-BEATING ALUMNI: They live in some 180 countries. Their ranks include world leaders, astronauts, Nobel laureates, and a host of trailblazers in the worlds of art, science, business and public service.
• A REPUTATION FOR RESEARCH: With a strong focus on associative work, it ranks among the top research-intensive universities in the world, and carry on a tradition of excellence that includes Sir Ernest Rutherford, Wilder Penfield, Charles Taylor and many others.