Education in Montreal
With access to six universities and twelve junior colleges in an 8 kilometre (5 mi) radius, Montreal, Quebec (Canada) has the highest proportion of post-secondary students of all major cities in North America. This represents roughly 248,000 post-secondary students, one of the largest numbers in the world.
Urban francophone universities[edit]
- Université du Québec: (About 66,000 students)
- Université de Montréal: (About 55,000 students)
Urban anglophone universities[edit]
- Concordia University: (About 44,000 students)
- Loyola Campus (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
- Sir George Williams Campus (Downtown Montreal)[1]
- McGill University: (About 32,000 students)
- Downtown Campus (Downtown Montreal)[2]
- Macdonald Campus (West Island)
Suburban universities[edit]
- Université de Sherbrooke (Francophone; Located in Sherbrooke, campus in Longueuil)
College[edit]
High school graduates who wish to go on to university must first complete two years of college (as an alternative, some students spend two years in American prep school)
- English language Public Colleges
- Champlain Regional College (2,500 students at St. Lambert Campus)
- Dawson College (10,000 students)
- John Abbott College (7,400 students)
- Vanier College (6,100 students)
- French language Public Colleges
- Collège Ahuntsic (10,100 students)
- Cégep André-Laurendeau (2,700 students)
- Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne (2,600 students)
- Collège Édouard-Montpetit (6,700 students in Longueuil)
- Collège Gérald-Godin (1,100 students)
- Collège de Maisonneuve (5,600 students)
- Collège Montmorency (5,800 students in Laval)
- Cégep Marie-Victorin
- Collège de Rosemont (2,800 students)
- Cégep de Saint-Laurent (3,000 students)
- Cégep du Vieux Montréal (9,000 students)
- Private Colleges
- Marianopolis College (2,100 students)
- Collège André-Grasset
- Collège M of Canada
- Collégial international Sainte-Anne
- Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (2,400 students)[3]
- LaSalle College
- Herzing College
- Delta College
- TAV College[4]
Primary and secondary schools[edit]
Currently 17 school districts are secular and based on linguistic communities:
- Centre de services scolaire de Montréal (5)
- Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys (5)
- Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île (5)
- English Montreal School Board (1)
- Lester B. Pearson School Board (1)
Prior to 1998 school districts were formed on religious lines, with the school boards having both Francophone and Anglophone schools:
- Montreal Catholic School Commission
- Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal
- Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer
Montreal also has French-language and English-language private schools. Anglophone private schools receiving subsidies from the provincial government must abide by the French Language Charter and restrict enrollment of students to eligible parties.[5]
Miscellaneous education[edit]
The Montreal Hoshuko School, a Japanese language supplemental school, holds its classes at the Trafalgar School for Girls.[6]
The Chinese language supplemental school JiaHua School of Montreal (French: École JiaHua de Montréal, simplified Chinese:
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Campus map" Archived 2010-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, "Concordia University". Accessed May 17, 2008.
- ^ "Campus Maps" Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine, "McGill University". Accessed May 17, 2008.
- ^ "Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf | Dessau". Archived from the original on 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2014-04-27.
- ^ "Home". tav.ca.
- ^ Valiante, Giuseppe. "Quebec's English private schools say admission rules limit access" (Archive). CBC. April 30, 2015. Retrieved on April 23, 2016.
- ^ "
所在地 Archived 2015-02-11 at the Wayback Machine." Montreal Hoshuko School. Retrieved on March 30, 2014. "【住所 】 3495 Simpson, Montréal, Québec H3G 2J7 c/o Trafalgar School for Girls" - ^ Leon, Rocky. "Learning their mother tongue: Thousands takes classes in Montreal. Community-based groups strive to preserve Chinese culture in sea of English and French." The Gazette.January 18, 2004 Sunday Final Edition. News: Faces of Montreal; Pg. A9. Available on LexisNexis.