McGill University is a public university in Montréal, Quebec, founded in 1821. It is home to Canada’s first faculty of medicine, established in 1829, and has downtown, Gault and Macdonald campuses. Deep Saini is President and Vice-Chancellor, the university’s chief executive officer.
McGill’s Quick Facts report 40,531 students in fall 2025: 28,167 undergraduates, 10,196 graduate students, 649 postdoctoral scholars and 1,519 residents and fellows. Students from outside Canada make up 27% of total enrolment by place of origin. Its faculties include Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Arts, Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law, the Desautels Faculty of Management, Medicine and Health Sciences, Science, the Schulich School of Music and the School of Continuing Studies. McGill lists 1,677 tenured and tenure-stream faculty and more than 325,000 alumni.