ABOUT CONCORDIA
Fast facts
Concordia is a next-generation university, continually reimagining the future of higher education. Located in the vibrant and multicultural city of Montreal, Concordia is the top-ranked university in North America founded within the last 50 years and annually registers some 51,000 students through its innovative approach to experiential learning and cross-functional research.
#1 in
North America
University under 50 years
75% of courses
have fewer than 60 students
#1 favourite student city
in North America
Top 100 supporting SDGs
in the world
Promoting the UN sustainable development goals
Concordia has joined the Decade of Action to achieve the UN’s ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. The goals draw on our strengths in community health, global literacy, water security, environmental impact and sustainable infrastructure design.
Essential player in Montreal
Concordia’s commitment to supporting its city by advancing research creation, innovation and culture will ensure Montreal’s vitality in the years ahead.
AN EYE TO OUR FUTURE
Concordia’s strategic directions set out a vision for the future and exemplify a daring and transformative outlook on some of the most important issues of our time.
DOUBLE
OUR
RESEARCH
Pursue bold goals in research that reflect our talents and our ambition to tackle big challenges
TEACH
FOR
TOMORROW
Deliver a next-generation education that’s connected, transformative, and fit for the times
GET YOUR
HANDS
DIRTY
Use rich experiences outside the classroom to deepen learning and effect change
MIX
IT UP
Build agile structures that facilitate intellectual mixing and internal collaboration
EXPERIMENT
BOLDLY
Be inventive and enterprising in creating tomorrow’s university
GROW
SMARTLY
Add capacity where our strengths and emerging enrolment demand intersect
EMBRACE
THE CITY,
EMBRACE
THE WORLD
Achieve public impact through research and learning
GO
BEYOND
Push past the status quo and go the extra mile for members of our community
TAKE
PRIDE
Celebrate successes and be purposeful about building a legacy
Interested and involved students
The diverse and engaged students add a dynamic energy and vision to the university experience.
51,250+
students
3,000
co-op students
10,000
international students
150
countries represented
Faculty network
Professors and researchers collaborate across disciplines and network with the community to deliver groundbreaking knowledge-creation.
2,250+
professors and librarians
130
research chairs and professorships
$60.5 million+
research income
Black perspectives
Concordia is dedicated to addressing and challenging anti‑Black systemic racism and being inclusive and accessible to Black students, staff and faculty and fostering relationships with Black communities. The work of the Black Perspectives Office is rooted in an anti‑racist and anti‑oppressive framework and informed by generations of Black students and community activism.
73
courses focused on Black, Indigenous and People of Colour
1
Task Force on Anti‑Black Racism
1968
Concordia Caribbean Students’ Union founded
2,220+
items in the Negro Community Centre fonds
Committed to decolonization and indigenization
Concordia acknowledges that it is situated on unceded Indigenous lands and recognizes the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation as the custodians of the surrounding lands and waters. The university is committed to truth and reconciliation and engaging with ongoing Indigenous issues.
1st
First Peoples major in Quebec
1
Indigenous Directions Action Plan
1992
Aboriginal
centre opens
30
Indigenous graduate scholarships
