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 Canada founded within the last 50 years and annually registers some 50,000 students through its innovative approach to experiential learning and cross-functional research.
#1 university in Canada under 50 years
400 undergrad & 120 graduate
programs
Among top 3 favourite student cities in North America
Top 200 in world for supporting SDGs
Promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Concordia has joined the Decade of Action to achieve the United Nations’ 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.
Interested and involved students
The diverse and engaged students add a dynamic energy and vision to the university experience.
50,000 students
11,000+ international students
5,000+ co-op 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
$87.5 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.
1
Task Force on Anti‑Black Racism
Dozens of
courses focused on Black, Indigenous and People of Colour
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
