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McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research University located 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.
The McGill School for Teachers was also moved to MacDonald Campus in 1907. In 1965 it was renamed the Faculty of Education, and in 1970 it was relocated to McGill's Downtown Campus. [5] In 1938, the Rural Adult Education Service of Macdonald College was established.
The McGill University Faculty of Medicine was the first medical school in Canada to institute a joint MD-MBA program in 1997 in collaboration with the Desautels Faculty of Management. [11] This program allowed students to complete both degrees in five years.
1848 Québec School of Medicine, 1852 Medical Department of Laval University [2] Québec McGill University Faculty of Medicine: Montréal, Gatineau: MDCM 1823 1829 1833 185 1824 Montréal Medical Institution, 1829 Medical Faculty of McGill University, 1836-1839 no sessions, 1905 absorbed Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bishop College ...
McGill's School of Architecture, founded in 1896, is one of the oldest architecture schools in North America and the second to be established in Canada. [14] Initially a Beaux-Arts style school based in the Arts and Crafts movement, it became a Bauhaus-based institution under new directorship after World War II.
Rankings of universities in Canada are typically published annually by a variety of nationally, and internationally based publications.Rankings of post-secondary institutions have most often been conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments, or academia.
McGill was the first university in Canada to offer a full-time program in urban planning. An interdisciplinary program through which students combined a master's degree in their original field was combined with urban planning was established in 1947. An autonomous program was established in 1972.
McGill University Library is the library system of McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. It comprises 13 branch libraries, located on the downtown Montreal and Macdonald [2] campuses, holding over 11.78 million items. [3] It is the fourth-largest research intensive academic library in Canada. [4]