Concordia University

Website / www.concordia.ca

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Concordia University is recognized as one of Canada’s most dynamic and innovative universities. Committed to individual empowerment, community engagement and academic excellence, Concordia is a vibrant community that mirrors its urban and multicultural environment.

The university’s openness to the world and to new ideas inspires its faculty, students and staff to develop an international approach to learning, research, and social responsibility. A leader in sustainability, Concordia recently opened the O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, housed in the new home of the John Molson School of Business. This state-of-the-art building is part of the university’s recent $500 million building program.

The university offers 300 undergraduate programs, and 180 graduate programs, diplomas and certificates and 35 postgraduate programs. There are also many non-credit programs offered by the School of Extended Learning. More than half of Concordia’s full-time tenure-track professors joined the university in the last decade.

The main campus (Sir George Williams) is located in the centre of Montreal in an area known as the Quartier Concordia, close to the city’s cafés, museums and nightlife. With the opening of the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex and of the John Molson School of Business buildings in 2005 and 2009 respectively, Concordia capitalized on its established academic strengths in high technology, fine arts and business studies, while adding a centrepiece to urban renewal at the downtown campus.

The Loyola campus is in the district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, offering a refuge of Gothic architecture and rolling lawns. It also houses a recently built science complex and a new communications and journalism building.

In 2011, Concordia opened new buildings on the Loyola Campus to house the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics and the PERFORM Centre (Prevention, Evaluation, Rehabilitation, FORMation) for the department of Exercise Science.

The university has a long-standing commitment to accessibility. With 30 percent of its students enrolled on a part-time basis, the university makes many of its courses available in evening sessions while the main library is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round.

Student fees

Canadian student fees 2011-12 *
Undergraduate tuition fees: $2,168 - $5,858
Graduate tuition fees: $2,439 - $6,590

International student fees 2011-12 *
Undergraduate tuition fees: $14,562 - $16,259
Graduate tuition fees: $14,710 - $16,382

* Source: Statistics Canada. Fees for general programs in arts and humanities.

Note: In addition to tuition fees, universities generally charge fees for goods and services supplied to students. This includes areas such as student associations, sports and health. These additional fees vary widely per university and per student and can run from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars. Check with the university for details.

Student enrolment

2011 rounded preliminary fall enrolment *
Full-time (undergraduates): 20,750
Full-time (graduates): 4,150
Part-time (undergraduates): 9,260
Part-time (graduates): 1,050

* Source: Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities