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Science
How to Change the World Bootcamp
Students from the Faculty of Science participate in the How to Change the World Bootcamp, a unique experiential learning and professional development opportunity. In collaboration with other students, educators and experts, the participants engage with local leaders and stakeholders to co-develop innovative ideas that can have real impact on the sustainability challenges their community is facing.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Global Opportunities for Grad Students
As early as 2016-2017, new experiential opportunities were introduced to enhance the McGill graduate experience. The Graduate Mobility Awards encourage graduate students to study and conduct research abroad as part of their McGill degree program.
Education
International Alliance in Education
The Faculty of Education has joined an alliance of four world-class Education Faculties across the globe: Oxford University (England), Stanford University (USA), Monash University (Australia) and the University of Hong Kong (China). This international Education alliance will facilitate the world leaders in Education set a global agenda for educational advancements, provide an international networking forum, and establish professional opportunities for researchers.
Law
Changing Lives Around the World
McGill’s Faculty of Law enjoys a rich tradition of human rights education and experiential learning. The Faculty offers internship opportunities with dozens of partner organizations: courts and human rights commissions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Indigenous courts and communities, and other human rights’ partners in Canada and across the globe.
Management
Globalizing Entrepreneurship
In 2021, the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship launched its first McGill International Startup Tour. Showcasing Dobson's most promising retail startups and more, the goal of the McGill International Startup Tour is to promote entrepreneurial innovation stemming from all Faculties, while creating opportunities with regard to fund raising and new business partnerships on an international scale.
Medicine and Health Sciences
Towards Global Health Innovation
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences created the School of Population and Global Health to train public and population health researchers, practitioners and decision makers, conduct high impact research and engage in knowledge translation and exchange with the ultimate goal of improving the health of populations and reducing health inequities in Quebec, Canada and worldwide.
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Healthier nutrition and sustainability in Ghana
Through a collective effort, the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (FAES) works with partners, including the University of Ghana – Nutrition Research and Training Centre, to improve the livelihoods and health of young people in Ghana through training and innovation in nutrition and sustainable agri-food (Climate-Sensitive Agriculture, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture and Food
Processing).
Arts
A Voice for the Global South
In the Faculty of Arts, the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) strives to create and communicate knowledge that contributes to understanding and solving real-world development challenges. ISID’s Speaker Series has, for a few years, reserved slots for Global South speakers, and since the pandemic, all speakers have been from the Global South. This was an explicit choice in order to expand our communities’ horizons and interact actively with all the research and practice taking place in Global South.
Continuing Studies
Attracting Talents from Abroad
Starting with only two international visiting students in 2017, the School of Continuing Studies’ (SCS) Study and language acquisition programs now attract more than 200 students annually. By 2021 SCS has joined with more than 50 university partners world-wide, to bring students from all over the world to McGill University for experiential learning, services and language acquisition, at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.
Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
A pathway to Dental Medicine in Quebec
The Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences offers the DMD Advanced Standing for Foreign Trained Dentists Pathway is intended for internationally trained dentists that would like to complete their Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) and become accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada (CDAC).
Be Open to the World
In the McGill Reporter
JANUARY 26, 2023
Times Higher Education ranks McGill as one of the world’s most international universities
McGill's 2022-2023 student body includes 12,001 international students representing 153 countries
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
McCall MacBain Scholarships announce 88 finalists
Now in its third year, the comprehensive leadership-based scholarship for master’s and professional studies has opened its admissions to include international candidates.
MARCH 4, 2022
Virtual training to support Ukrainian healthcare workers
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased Ukraine’s need for medical teaching materials. In the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning responded by creating videos demonstrating how to perform chest tube insertion and other lifesaving surgical procedures.
APRIL 19, 2022
Building pharmacological expertise in sub-Saharan Africa
Epidemiology professor Robert Platt joins effort to support pharmacological education in the developing world
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Visualizing the ancient Maya over thousands of years
Using real geochemical data from the archaeological site of Itzan, Guatemala, and computer-generated artwork, PhD candidate Benjamin Keenan has produced a video that brings ancient Mayan civilization to life
JUNE 21, 2022
From refugee camps to McGill campus
Student-run, student supported WUSC McGill has been sponsoring refugee scholars since 1986
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Pursuing an Arctic research dream
Winter School in Norway broadens PhD student’s perspective on her research into floating sea ice and ocean currents