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McGill's residence system comprises 16 properties providing dormitories, apartments, and hotel-style housing to approximately 3,100 undergraduate students and some graduate students from the downtown and Macdonald campuses.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/residences/ |title=McGill Residences |publisher=Mcgill.ca |date=2010-07-28 |access-date=2011-09-29 |archive-date=March 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308175610/http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2022 |title=Student Housing |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/students/housing/residence-options |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=McGill University |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331184019/https://www.mcgill.ca/students/housing/residence-options |url-status=live }}</ref> With the exception of students returning as "[[Resident assistant|floor fellows]]," few McGill students live in [[Dormitory|residence]] (known [[colloquialism|colloquially]] as "rez") after their first year of undergraduate study, even if they are not from the Montreal area. Most second-year students transition to off-campus apartment housing. Many students settle in the [[Milton Park, Montreal|Milton-Park]] neighbourhood, sometimes called the "McGill Ghetto,"<ref>{{Cite web|title=The ghetto that isn't {{!}} The McGill Daily|date=February 10, 2014|url=https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2014/02/the-ghetto-that-isnt/|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803220737/https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2014/02/the-ghetto-that-isnt/|url-status=live}}</ref> which is the neighbourhood directly to the east of the downtown campus. Students have also moved to areas such as [[Mile End, Montreal|Mile End]], [[Le Plateau-Mont-Royal|The Plateau]], and even as far as [[Verdun, Quebec|Verdun]] because of rising rent prices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3201/ghetto.html|title='In the Ghetto', September 9, 1999|work=McGill Reporter|access-date=2012-06-04|archive-date=February 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228113340/http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3201/ghetto.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Many first-year students live in the Upper Residence ("Upper Rez"),.<ref>"Upper Rez: Douglas, McConnell, Molson and Gardner Halls". [https://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/admissions/movein/#UPPER "Moving into Residences"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416113758/http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/admissions/movein/#UPPER|date=2008-04-16}}, "McGill University", 2008. Retrieved June 5, 2008.</ref> which consists of the 1960s-style dormitories McConnell Hall, Molson Hall, and Gardner Hall and are located on the slope of Mount Royal alongside historic Douglas Hall, another student residence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2022 |title=Upper Residence: McConnell Hall, Gardner Hall, Molson Hall |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/students/housing/residence-options/downtown-undergrad/bmh |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=McGill Student Housing |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331193445/https://www.mcgill.ca/students/housing/residence-options/downtown-undergrad/bmh |url-status=live }}</ref> Royal Victoria College opened as a residential college for women in 1899, but its Tower section became mixed gender in September 2010 while its West Wing remains strictly for women.<ref name="Royal Victoria College" /> The college's original building was designed by [[Bruce Price]] and its extension was designed by [[Percy Erskine Nobbs]] and George Taylor Hyde.<ref>{{cite web|title=Percy Erskine Nobbs Biography|url=http://cac.mcgill.ca/nobbs/bio-pen-english.htm|work=McGill John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection – The Architecture of Percy Erskine Nobbs|access-date=February 26, 2014|archive-date=November 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109164614/http://cac.mcgill.ca/nobbs/bio-pen-english.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> A statue of [[Queen Victoria]] by her daughter [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll]], stands in front of the building.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/1 1]}}</ref>
Royal Victoria College opened as a residential college for women in 1899, but its Tower section became mixed gender in September 2010 while its West Wing remains strictly for women.<ref name="Royal Victoria College" /> The college's original building was designed by [[Bruce Price]] and its extension was designed by [[Percy Erskine Nobbs]] and George Taylor Hyde.<ref>{{cite web|title=Percy Erskine Nobbs Biography|url=http://cac.mcgill.ca/nobbs/bio-pen-english.htm|work=McGill John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection – The Architecture of Percy Erskine Nobbs|access-date=February 26, 2014|archive-date=November 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109164614/http://cac.mcgill.ca/nobbs/bio-pen-english.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> A statue of [[Queen Victoria]] by her daughter [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll]], stands in front of the building.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/1 1]}}</ref>
===Macdonald campus===
[[File:MacdonaldCollege1906.gif|thumb|Macdonald Campus under construction in 1906]]
A second campus, the [[Macdonald Campus]], in [[Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec|Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue]] houses the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, the Institute of Parasitology, and the McGill School of Environment. As of fall 2020, despite a decrease in enrolment from the previous year's 1,962 students, the campus has a total of 1,892 actively enrolled students, including those studying part-time and full-time, across all available programs. Of the total, 1,212 students are pursuing an undergraduate degree, 374 are pursuing a Masters-level degree, and 248 are pursuing a Doctoral-level degree, respectively. The gender percentage is 70.7 per cent female and 29.3 per cent male. There is a high international student presence, wheresince over 1 in 5 students studying are from outside Canada. Students attending MacdonaldThe campus oftenis nicknameconsidered theby campusmany asto “Mac” campus. Its location near the St. Lawrence river makes the campus significantlybe quieter and nature dense than the Downtown Montreal campus. The [[Morgan Arboretum]] and the [[J. S. Marshall Radar Observatory]] are nearby.
The Morgan [[Arboretum]] was created in 1945. It is a {{convert|2.5|km2|sqmi|3|adj=on}} forested reserve with the aim of 'teaching, and public education'. Its mandated goals are to continue research related to maintaining the health of the Arboretum [[plantations]] and [[woodland]]s, to develop new programs related to selecting [[species]] [[Adaptation|adapted]] to developing environmental conditions and to develop silvicultural practices that preserve and enhance [[Biodiversity|biological diversity]] in both natural stands and plantations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.morganarboretum.org/english/introduction.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070923035212/http://www.morganarboretum.org/english/introduction.htm|url-status=dead|title=An Introduction to the Arboretum|archive-date=September 23, 2007}}</ref>
===Outaouais campus===
===McGill Community for Lifelong Learning===
Founded in 1989, the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL) is an educational community for senior learners housed in the McGill School of Continuing Studies. The program was founded by Fiona Clark, then-assistant director of continuing studies at McGill, and drew inspiration from horizontal peer-led programs, including the [[Harvard]] Institute for Learning in Retirement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mcll-celebrates-its-30th-anniversary/|title=MCLL celebrates its 30th anniversary|date=November 5, 2019|website=McGill Reporter|access-date=February 24, 2021|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122110514/https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mcll-celebrates-its-30th-anniversary/|url-status=live}}</ref> Its innovative educational model<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/expandinglifelonglearningpaper.pdf |title=Expanding the Concept of Lifelong Learning Beyond the Campus: The Experience of the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning within the Wider Quebec Community |last1=Frisby |first1=Sandra |last2=Huff |first2=Christie |last3=Megelas |first3=Alex |last4=Thorvik |first4=Astri |publisher=McGill University |access-date=December 29, 2021 |archive-date=April 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428130942/https://www.mcgill.ca/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/expandinglifelonglearningpaper.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> is notably different from an instructor-led approach, and instead seestasks seniors exploring educational interest as either study group moderators, or participants. A core team of volunteer seniors assists with all aspects of the organization's mandate with the support of McGill staff and facilities. The program brings together hundreds of senior members yearly and has acted as a springboard for numerous senior-led initiatives such as social events, educational symposiums, and cultural festivals, including an internationally recognized yearly Bloomsday event on the life and work of author James Joyce.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/15/bloomsday-fans-around-the-world-celebrating-james-joyces-ulysses|title=Bloomsday: how fans around the world will be celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses|date=June 15, 2015|website=The Guardian|access-date=May 16, 2021|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628025958/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/15/bloomsday-fans-around-the-world-celebrating-james-joyces-ulysses|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Other facilities===
===Exchange and study abroad===
McGill maintains ties with more than 160 partner universities where students can study abroad for either one or two semesters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/mcgillabroad/mcgill-students-going-abroad/global-learning-opportunities|title=McGill students going abroad|publisher=McGill Abroad, McGill University|access-date=March 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327184450/https://www.mcgill.ca/mcgillabroad/mcgill-students-going-abroad/global-learning-opportunities|archive-date=March 27, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Each year, McGill hosts around 500 incoming exchange students from over 32 countries. The university offers a multitude of activities and events to integrate the students into the university's community and introduce them to the North American academic culture. McGill is the home to more than 10,000 foreign students who make up of more than 27 per cent of the student population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/internationalstudents/issoffice |title=About International Student Services (ISS) |website=McGill University |access-date=March 14, 2019 |archive-date=March 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317003533/https://www.mcgill.ca/internationalstudents/issoffice |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Finances===
===Language policy===
McGill is one of three English-language universities in Quebec;<ref>{{Cite web|title=Immigration Québec - Choosing an educational institution and a program of study|url=https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/immigrate-settle/students/applying-admission/choosing-institution/index.html|access-date=2020-11-07|website=www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726083914/http://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/immigrate-settle/students/applying-admission/choosing-institution/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> French is not a requirement to attend.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/law/grad-studies/admissions-guide/faq|access-date=May 16, 2021|website=Faculty of Law|archive-date=May 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516152347/https://www.mcgill.ca/law/grad-studies/admissions-guide/faq|url-status=live}}</ref> The Faculty of Law does, however, require all students to be '[[Passive speaker (language)|passively bilingual]]' since English or French may be used at any time.<ref>{{Cite web|title=General eligibility requirements|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/law/bcl-jd/admissions-guide/eligibility|access-date=2020-11-07|website=Faculty of Law|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111232846/https://www.mcgill.ca/law/bcl-jd/admissions-guide/eligibility|url-status=live}}</ref> OverThe 40,000majority students attend McGill, with internationalof students accountingare forfluent approximatelyin 29at perleast centtwo of the student populationlanguages.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://wwwcommitment.mcgill.ca/aboutinternationalcampus/quickfacts|title=2017International FactbookCampus|website=AboutThe McGill Commitment|access-date=2018-1009-2630|archive-date=MayOctober 91, 20212018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2021050911375520181001031215/https://wwwcommitment.mcgill.ca/aboutinternationalcampus/quickfacts|url-status=livedead}}</ref> TheFrancophone majoritystudents, ofwhether studentsfrom areQuebec fluentor inoverseas, atnow leastmake twoup languagesapproximately 20 per cent of the student body.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |title=2017 Factbook |url=https://commitmentwww.mcgill.ca/internationalcampusabout/|title=Internationalquickfacts Campus|website=The McGill Commitment|accessurl-datestatus=2018-09-30|archive-date=Octoberlive 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2018100103121520210509113755/https://commitmentwww.mcgill.ca/internationalcampusabout/quickfacts |urlarchive-statusdate=dead}}</ref>May Francophone students9, whether2021 from|access-date=2018-10-26 Quebec|website=About or overseas, now make up approximately 20 per cent of the student body.McGill}}</ref name="auto1" />
Although the language of instruction is English, since its founding McGill has allowed students to write their thesis in French, and since 1964 students in all faculties have been able to submit any graded work in either English or French, provided the objective of the class is not to learn a particular language.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-0-10-1249-6929-10/index_souvenirs/vie_societe/mcgill_francais |title='McGill français!' – Souvenirs – Les Archives de Radio-Canada |publisher=Archives.cbc.ca |access-date=2011-02-20 |archive-date=October 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020193222/http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-0-10-1249-6929-10/index_souvenirs/vie_societe/mcgill_francais |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1969, the [[Quebec nationalism|nationalist]] ''McGill français'' movement demanded McGill become francophone, pro-nationalist, and pro-worker.<ref>[http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3114/francais.html "McGill français and Quebec society"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202163306/http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3114/francais.html |date=February 2, 2022 }}, "McGill Reporter", April 8, 1999. Accessed May 16, 2008.</ref> The movement was led by Stanley Gray, a [[political science]] [[professor]] (and possibly unaware of government plans after the recent (1968) legislation founding the [[Université du Québec]]).<ref>[http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r2902/daily.htm "A reunion of radicals"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814081055/http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r2902/daily.htm |date=August 14, 2007 }}, "Reporter Volume 29 Number 2", September 26, 1996. Accessed May 16, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2004/02/03/Features/Far-From.Franais-595193.shtml "Far from français"]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, "The McGill Tribune", February 3, 2004. Accessed May 16, 2008.</ref> [[Operation McGill français|A demonstration]] was held of 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students, at the university's [[Roddick Gates]] on March 28, 1969. Protesters saw English as the privileged language of commerce. McGill, where [[Francophone]]s were only three per cent of the students, could be seen as the force maintaining economic control by [[English-speaking Quebecker|Anglophone]]s of a predominantly French-speaking province.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3114/francais.html |title=Reporter: McGill français |publisher=Reporter-archive.mcgill.ca |access-date=2011-02-20 |archive-date=February 17, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060217015904/http://www.reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3114/francais.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3111/scope.html |title=Reporter: Kaleidoscope |publisher=Reporter-archive.mcgill.ca |access-date=2011-02-20 |archive-date=May 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514092225/http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3111/scope.html |url-status=live }}</ref> However, the majority of students and faculty opposed such a position.<ref>Chester, Bronwyn. [http://www.reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3114/francais.html "McGill français and Quebec society"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060217015904/http://www.reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3114/francais.html |date=February 17, 2006 }}. ''McGill Reporter'', April 8, 1999. Retrieved January 20, 2006.</ref><ref>Provart, John. ''[http://www.news-archive.mcgill.ca/s99/demoen.htm McGill français 30 years later] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528150058/http://news-archive.mcgill.ca/s99/demoen.htm |date=2016-05-28 }}''. McGill News, Summer 1999.</ref>
===Rankings and reputation===
The [[McGill University Library]] comprises 12 branch libraries containing 11.5 million items in its collection.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2022 |title=Collections |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/library/about/collections |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=McGill Library |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331171955/https://www.mcgill.ca/library/about/collections |url-status=live }}</ref> Its branches include the Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, which holds about 350,000 items, including books, manuscripts, maps, prints, and a general rare book collection.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Rare Books and Special Collections|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks/about|work=McGill Library website|access-date=February 13, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222220211/https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks/about|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Islamic Studies Library]] contains over 125,000 volumes and a growing number of electronic resources covering the whole of Islamic civilization, including approximately 3,000 rare books and manuscripts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2, 2022 |title=Islamic studies collection policy |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/library/about/collections/collection-policies/islamic |access-date=April 2, 2022 |website=McGill Library |archive-date=December 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205142231/http://www.mcgill.ca/library/about/collections/collection-policies/islamic |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Osler Library of the History of Medicine]] is the largest medical history library in Canada and one of the most comprehensive in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2022 |title=About the Osler Library of the History of Medicine |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/osler/about |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=McGill Library |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331171920/https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/osler/about |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Elizabeth Wirth Music Building - 01.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, also a library, sits adjacent to the old Strathcona Music Building.]]
The McGill University Archives – now administered as part of the McGill Library – houses official records of, or relating to, people and activities connected to McGill University. The collection consistsconsist of manuscripts, texts, photographs, audio-visual material, architectural records, cartographic materials, prints, drawings, microforms and artifacts.<ref>{{cite web|title=About the University Archives|url=http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/|work=McGill University Archives website|access-date=February 13, 2014|archive-date=October 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025225414/http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1962 F. Cyril James declared that the newly founded McGill University Archives (MUA), while concentrating on the institutional records of McGill, had the mandate to acquire private papers of former faculty members. In the 1990s drew back their acquisition scope, and in 2004, new terms of reference on private acquisitions were introduced that included a wider McGill Community.<ref>{{cite web|last=Burr|first=Gordon|title=Private Holdings: Assessing the McGill University Archives' Role|url=http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/about/assets/assessment_private_holdings.pdf|publisher=McGill University Archives|access-date=February 13, 2014|date=January 2006|archive-date=September 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923173144/http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/about/assets/assessment_private_holdings.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
The [[Redpath Museum]] houses collections of interest to [[ethnology]], [[biology]], [[paleontology]], [[mineralogy]] and [[geology]]. Built in 1882, the Redpath is the oldest building in Canada built specifically to be a museum.<ref>[https://www.mcgill.ca/redpath/about/ "About the Museum"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906204245/http://www.mcgill.ca/redpath/about |date=September 6, 2017 }}, "McGill University". Accessed May 11, 2008.</ref>
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