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Montreal, Quebec · Founded 1821 · Official site ↗
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Reputation & academic strength (100% editorial · no reviews yet). 90/100
How openly it publishes & sources its data. 43/100 · 2/4 signals
A historic, research-intensive university in downtown Montreal with a strong international reputation and a large medical/health sciences footprint. English-language instruction in a bilingual city; competitive entry and a global student body.
Derived from McGill University's own published flagship or known-for programs. Used to weight our program-specific rankings.
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Published by the institution or government and linked to the official source. These are what drive our outcome-based rankings. The exact calculation that produced the 31/100 score is shown below.
Each verified outcome is scored 0-100 against the range its peers actually publish, then blended by weight. McGill University publishes 1 of 3 verified metrics; missing metrics earn zero rather than increasing the weight of the available ones.
“2018 cohort: Total 87%. Version: Winter 2025 BOG.”
Scored on 1 of 3 outcome metrics: the rest aren't published with a verifiable source, so they earn zero rather than being estimated.
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How openly McGill University publishes the data families need, keeps it current, and links it to an official source. We score whether the data exists, not the results themselves. Each signal's source and its share of the 43/100 are shown below.
Each signal can earn a share of 100 points equal to its weight; a partly-met signal earns proportionally less. The points below add up to the score.
1 of 3 outcome metrics sourced
v1 scores objective, automatically-checkable signals. Editorial clarity assessments (admission rubric, website, policies), grounded in McGill University's own pages and human-reviewed before publishing, are being added.
McGill University offers programs across 16 fields, listed below at the program level. All 100 are confirmed on McGill University's official programs page. Program outcomes roll up into the verified school-level figures above. We don't yet have verified program-level stats for these, so we mark each Unverified rather than show an estimate.
Program list compiled from McGill University's published program areas and flagship programs. Program pages may inherit verified school-wide outcomes, but we do not present those as program-specific results.
1 of 5 facts currently link to verified official sources.
Every statistic on this page carries an evidence label. 1 of 5 stats currently link to a verified official source; the rest are marked Unverified until we confirm them against an official page. We never invent a citation to fill the gap.
An automated checker re-verifies every official source on this page on a daily schedule. If a source page moves, breaks, or changes, it's flagged and the figure is held out of our rankings until it's re-confirmed against the official page. Most recent run for McGill University: September 29, 2026. How we keep this current →
Data as of June 2026. Verified official pages are listed in the sidebar. Our citation policy → · Our accuracy log →
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Answers to what families search for about McGill University, built only from the sourced data on this page. We leave a question out rather than answer it with a number we can't back.
Recent admitted students typically had a 78-96% average.
Domestic tuition is about $9,000/yr; international tuition is about $58,000/yr.
No, McGill University does not offer co-op programs.
Yes, McGill University offers on-campus residence.
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See where it places among Canadian universities on verifiable student outcomes.
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2 reachable official links; value verification is scored separately
We score whether the data EXISTS and is sourced, not the results themselves. A school is never penalized here for a low outcome, only for not publishing one.