Concordia University is a public comprehensive university with campuses and facilities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the two universities in Montreal where English is the primary language of instruction. As of the 2013-2014 academic year, there were 43,752 students enrolled at Concordia, making the university among the largest in Canada. The university has two campuses, set approximately seven km apart: Sir George Williams Campus in the downtown core of Montreal, in an area known as Quartier Concordia and Loyola Campus in the residential district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. With four faculties, a school of graduate studies and numerous colleges, centres and institutes, Concordia offers over 300 undergraduate and 100 graduate programs and courses.

McGill University is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from some 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. McGill was founded in 1821 thanks to a generous bequest by James McGill, and since then, we’ve grown from a small college to a bustling university with two campuses, 11 faculties, some 300 programs of study, and 39,500 students. The University also partners with four affiliated teaching hospitals to graduate over 1,000 health care professionals each year.

The Université de Montréal (UdeM) is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1836 as an annex of the University of Laval ; it is the first French University of Montreal ; it will be autonomous in 1919. The francophone institution comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and has two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique (School of Engineering) and HEC Montréal (School of Business). It offers 600 undergraduate programmes and graduate programmes, including 71 doctoral programmes. The university has Quebec’s largest sponsored research income and the third largest in Canada, allocating close to $597,2 million to research conducted in more than 465 research centres. It is also part of the U75 universities. Almost 45,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs, which makes it the second largest University in terms of students in Canada.

The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) is a comprehensive public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a French-language university and is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec (UQ), a public university system. UQÀM was founded on April 9, 1969 by the government of Quebec, through the merger of the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, a fine arts school; the Collège Sainte-Marie, a classical college; and a number of smaller schools. Although part of the UQ network, UQÀM possesses a relative independence which allows it to print its own diplomas and choose its rector. In 2011, UQÀM had a student population of 41,325 in six faculties (Arts, Education, Communication, Political Science and Law, Science and Social science) and one school (Management). It offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees. It is one of Montreal’s two francophone universities, along with the Université de Montréal, and only 1% of its student population is of anglophone origin.