McGill University

McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational, international university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill is considered to be the second best university in Canada and amongst the top universities in the world.

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Montreal - Quebec - Canada - 1821

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International university rankings such as the Gourman Report, Princeton Review, and the Times Higher Education Supplement had placed McGill among the top 100 global universities. In 1998, the Gourman Report placed McGill on top in their list of the best Canadian universities for Undergraduate Programs. In 2004, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked McGill 21st in the world and 12th in North America (the highest of any Canadian university), while the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked McGill 61st in the world http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/ http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/top500(1-100).htm. The Times study in particular recognized McGill as having "by far the most international faculty of any university in North America's top 50 and it also has the highest percentage of international students."

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Ranking - Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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In 2004 gross research funding at McGill ranked fourth among Canada's top 50 research universities according to Research InfoSource. In terms of research funding normalized to number of faculty members, McGill ranked first in 2003 and second in 2004. Noted for being a research-intensive university, it frequently garners the most per faculty research dollars nationwide from federal and provincial sources of funding (including CFI, NSERC and other organizations) http://www.researchinfosource.com/top50.shtml

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