Concordia University

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 post-graduate programs. There are also many non-credit programs offered by the School of Extended Learning. Over half of Concordia’s full-time tenure-track professors joined the university in the last decade.
The main campus (Sir George Williams Campus) 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 Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts building in 2005, Concordia capitalized on its established academic strengths in high technology and fine arts, while adding a centrepiece to urban renewal at the downtown campus.
The Loyola campus is in the suburb 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 will open new buildings on the Loyola Campus to house the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics (attached to the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex) and the PERFORM Centre (Prevention, Evaluation, Rehabilitation, FORMation) for the department of Exercise Science.
The university has a long-standing commitment to accessibility. With 32 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.

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Student fees

Canadian student fees  2010-11 *
Undergraduate tuition fees: $2,068 - $5,568
Graduate tuition fees: $2,326 - $6,376
International student fees  2010-11 *
Undergraduate tuition fees: $14,462 - $16,160
Graduate tuition fees: $14,598 - $16,270
* 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.

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Student enrolment

2010 rounded preliminary fall enrolment *
Full-time (undergraduates): 20,260
Full-time (graduates): 4,130
Part-time (undergraduates): 9,020
Part-time (graduates): 1,000
* Source: Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities