ABOUT CONCORDIA
Fast facts
As a next-generation university, we reimagine the future of higher education. Concordia’s innovative approach to experiential learning and cross-functional research benefits our 50,000 students. Concordia is the top-ranked university in North America under 50, located in vibrant Montreal on the traditional lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. We strive to be socially responsible and create a more equitable and sustainable world.
#1 in North America university under 50 years
75% of courses
have fewer than 60 students
Best student city in North America
Top 100 in world for sustainability
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.
Diverse and engaged students
In Montreal, one of North America’s favourite student cities, the critical mass of youthful enthusiasm creates a palpable feeling that anything is possible.
50,000 students
10,000+ international students
3,000+ co-op students
150 countries represented
Faculty network
Professors and researchers join forces across disciplines, forging connections with the community to drive innovative knowledge and discovery.
2,250+ professors and librarians
130+ research chairs and professorships
$61.9 million sponsored 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
