McGill University

McGill University is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, whose main campus is set at the foot of Mount Royal in Downtown Montreal with the second campus, situated near fields and forested lands in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 30 kilometers west of the downtown campus on the Island of Montreal.Founded in 1821 during the British colonial era, the university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland and alumnus of Glasgow University, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university. With 21 faculties and professional schools, McGill offers degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study, including cultural studies, medicine and law.McGill University has almost 215,000 living alumni worldwide. Notable alumni include nine Nobel Laureates, 135 Rhodes Scholars (the most in the country), three astronauts, two Canadian prime ministers, twelve justices of the Canadian Supreme Court, four foreign leaders, twenty-eight foreign ambassadors, nine Academy Award winners, three Pulitzer Prize winners, and twenty-eight Olympic medalists. McGill alumni were instrumental in inventing or initially organizing football, basketball, and ice hockey. McGill is the most selective Canadian University and is historically the most prestigious and among the most prestigious in North America. McGill is one of two member-universities of the Association of American Universities situated outside the United States.McGill was ranked 1st in Canada among all its major/research universities in the Maclean's 23rd annual rankings (2013-2014 school year), maintaining this position for the ninth consecutive year. Internationally, McGill ranked 21st in the world and 2nd in Canada in the 2013 QS World University Rankings. Bloomberg BusinessWeek's 2012 Business Schools Ranking ranked McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management 10th in the world among non-US business schools, referring to McGill University as the #1 university in Canada and among the top 20 worldwide. McGill was ranked 33rd in the world and 2nd in Canada by the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In the 2011 Emerging/Trendence Global Employability Ranking, McGill was ranked the 19th finest in the world, and 1st in Canada, for popularity among major employers. In 2012, Travel + Leisure rated McGill's campus as one of the 17 most beautiful university campuses in the world in its first and only campus rankings.