Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1878 as a Montreal branch of Université Laval and became independent in 1919. The main campus sits on the north slope of Mount Royal in Côte-des-Neiges. HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal are affiliated schools of business and engineering.

Thirteen faculties cover medicine, law, arts and sciences, veterinary medicine, and music, among other fields. The university is known for health sciences, law, and the humanities. Graduate research is concentrated at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, at centers linked to the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, and at CHU Sainte-Justine.

About 45,000 students attend Université de Montréal proper, with roughly a quarter in graduate programs. International students account for about a fifth of enrollment and come from more than 140 countries, many from francophone countries. Faculty number about 2,500. Alumni include Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, and former governor general Michaëlle Jean.

Graduate study includes research master's degrees, professional master's degrees, and the Ph.D., with supervision in faculty groups and hospital laboratories. Instruction is predominantly in French. Terms run on a Canadian fall-winter calendar. Support comes from provincial and federal scholarships and assistantships. Students live in Côte-des-Neiges or elsewhere in Montreal and reach campus and hospitals by metro.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Université de Montréal lists 4 graduate programs across 4 subjects: 2 master's programs and 2 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in chemistry, computer science and mathematics. Université de Montréal holds rank 141 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.