Concordia University, usually referred to as Concordia, is a public university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Concordia University was founded in 1974 with the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University and is one of the three universities in Quebec where English is the primary language of instruction. The other English language universities are McGill University in Montreal and Bishop’s University in Sherbrook, Quebec.
I was in the Department of Communication Arts, known as Comm Arts, at the Loyola Campus.
Two Campuses
The university has two campuses that are approximately 7 kilometres (4 miles) apart:
- Sir George Williams Campus, the main campus, is located in Downtown Montreal in an area known as Quartier Concordia, and
- Loyola Campus in the west end residential district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Four Faculties
Concordia University has four faculties (Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Fine Arts and John Molson School of Business), a school of graduate studies and numerous colleges, centres and institutes offering over 300 undergraduate and 100 graduate programs and courses.
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