Sunday, July 29, 2012

McGill University


 
Is a public university research in the existing international city of Montreal, which is located in the province of Quebec, predominantly French. Bearing the name of James McGill, who was a prominent merchant in Montreal from Scotland, and his will that formed the beginning of the university. McGill has a piece of land donation and the amount of money to found a university in the city in 1821, McGill is currently one of the oldest universities in Canada, the University began teaching its students during the British colonial era, ie before 46 years of the establishment of the Canadian Union.

Were selected on the main campus of 32 hectares (80 acres) under Mount Royal, Moon in downtown Montreal. The second campus, Macdonald Campus, is located of 6.5 square kilometers (1,600 hectares) of fields and forest land in St. Anne de Bellevue, 30 kilometers to the west of the campus in the city center. The University College of today, 21 different offers to its students and its students the opportunity to obtain scientific degrees and certificates in more than 300 specialty fields of study, including medicine and law. Although the language of instruction is English, the students have the right to submit any course work either in English or French, if only to learn a particular language is the goal of the session. There are currently over 34,000 students and a student at McGill, students and foreign students, representing a fifth of all students. And The University of prestigious Canadian universities and has a high acceptance criteria when compared to other Canadian universities to the point of giving it the title of "the Harvard of Canada" for excellence and originality in research areas.

McGill University is characterized by distinct Bibhatha winning many prestigious awards in various areas of research, and belong to many university research organizations, both within Canada and in the world, including the G13, and the Association of American Universities, and Younfersitas 21. Top university in various colleges and schools of professional and graduate first place constantly in national classifications such as those published by the Journal of McLean, now in universities Top 50 in the rankings, regional and worldwide, including the classification of the Times - QS World; and rates of Shanghai Universities World. With about 200,000 alumni living in all parts of the world, characterized by students and professors of McGill University in various fields ranging from medicine, the arts and sciences, business, politics, and sports. Six of the graduates have won the Nobel Prize (out of nine Nobel Laureates collaborating with the university), and three astronauts, two prime ministers, Canadians, and four judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, and three foreign leaders, and nine winners of an Academy Award for the Arts, three winners Pulitzer Prize, and the twenty-eight athletes have won Olympic medals.

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