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McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, [12] the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, [13] whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College. In 1885, the name was officially changed ...
The Desautels Faculty of Management is a faculty of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.The faculty offers a range of undergraduate and graduate-level business programs, including the Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy in management degrees.
The McConnell Engineering Building was donated to McGill in 1959 by John W. McConnell, a major benefactor of the University since 1911 and one of its Governors from 1928 until 1958. In the period after World War II when all of the Engineering Faculties were greatly expanding, this nine-storey structure doubled the number of classrooms, lecture ...
A number of nationally based organizations have also crafted ranking using input from students and alumni. In 2014, the Toronto-based CampusRanking.ca began publication of its annual Canadian University and College Rankings, focusing on undergraduate education. The student-generated rankings asked over 40,000 undergraduate students and alumni ...
The faculty traces its beginnings to the McGill Normal School, established in 1857. [3] In 1907, the school was moved to Macdonald College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, where it became the School for Teachers. In the 1950s, the School for Teachers was combined with the Department of Education (which had been established within the Faculty ...
The Faculty of Science is one of eleven faculties at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. [2] With roots tracing back to 1843, the Faculty currently offers several undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from Earth Sciences to Mathematics to Neuroscience.
McGill's medical building 1872–1906. The Montreal Medical Institution was established in 1823 by four physicians, Andrew Fernando Holmes, John Stephenson, William Caldwell and William Robertson, all of whom had been trained at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and were involved in the foundation of the Montreal General Hospital. [3]
Computer science as a field of study was pioneered at McGill University by George Lee (John) d'Ombrain, then Chair of Electrical Engineering, [2] who is credited with bringing the first computer to McGill in 1958. [3] The first graduate student in computing at McGill University was Gerald Ratzer, who arrived from Cambridge in September 1964 ...