McGill University
McGill University, a privately endowed institution of higher learning in Montreal, Quebec. The language of instruction is English. McGill has faculties of agricultural and environmental sciences, arts, science, dentistry, engineering, law, medicine, religious studies, music, education, management, and graduate studies. It has schools of architecture, computer science, dietetics and human nutrition, physical and occupational therapy, social work, nursing, urban planning, and graduate library science.
Colleges associated with McGill are Macdonald College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the Montreal Diocesan Theological College, the Presbyterian College of Montreal, and the United Theological College of Montreal.
In 1813 James McGill left a bequest for the founding of a university. A royal charter was granted in 1821 and instruction began in 1828. Ernest Rutherford, professor of physics 1898–1907, established McGill's reputation for nuclear study.