University of Montreal
| University of Montreal | |
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| motto | Fide splendet et scientia |
| founding | 1878 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place |
Montreal , Canada
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| Rector | Guy Breton |
| Students | 45,360 |
| Employee | 4900 |
| including professors | 1500 |
| Annual budget | $ 747.7 million |
| Networks | U15 , AUCC , CARL , CIS |
| Website | www.umontreal.ca |
The University of Montreal (French Université de Montréal , abbreviated UdeM) was founded in 1878 and is a French-speaking university and one of four universities in Montréal . The current university president is Guy Breton . Around 45,000 students in 13 faculties and over 60 departments study here every year. Two schools are affiliated with the university: the École Polytechnique engineering school and the HEC Montréal business school . The Center hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal hospital network is also affiliated .
Their motto is Fide splendet et scientia . The budget for 2006 was 899.5 million Canadian dollars. It is the largest research university in the province of Québec and the second largest in Canada. The university has three campuses that are spread across the city.
Departments
- Faculté d'aménagement
- Faculté des arts et des sciences
- Faculté de droit Faculty of Law
- Faculté de l'éducation permanent
- Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales
- Faculté de médecine
- Faculté de médecine dentaire
- Faculté de médecine vétérinaire
- Faculté de musique
- Faculté de pharmacie
- Faculté des sciences de l'éducation
- Faculté des sciences infirmières
- Faculté de théologie et de sciences des religions
- Département de kinésiologie
- Ecole d'optométrie
Affiliated schools
- École Polytechnique de Montréal
- École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal (HEC Montréal)
Well-known lecturers
- Stéphane Dion , Canadian politician, sociologist and author
- Hubert Lacroix , Attorney and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- James R. Taylor , professor
- Franz Schultheis , sociology professor
- Michel Seymour , philosopher and professor
- Dale C. Thomson , Professor and Vice President of McGill University in Montreal
- Jean-Daniel Lafond , film producer
- Igor Alexandrowitsch Meltschuk , Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation
- Jocelyn Faubert , psychophysicist
Well-known graduates
(Selection)
- Louise Arbor , United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2004 to the end of June 2008
- Denys Arcand , screenwriter, film producer and film director
- André Boisclair , Canadian politician
- Louis R. Chênevert , CEO and President of United Technologies Corporation
- Maurice Duplessis , Prime Minister of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1959.
- Lomer Gouin , Canadian politician
- Roger Charles Louis Guillemin , biochemist and Nobel laureate in medicine
- Hubert Reeves , atomic and astrophysicist
- Isabelle Mercier , professional poker player
- Ousmane Issoufou Oubandawaki , Nigerien manager and politician
- Georges M. Saad Abi Younes , Maronite Bishop in Mexico
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://recteur.umontreal.ca/accueil/
- ↑ a b c d UdeM at a glance. In: recteur.umontreal.ca. University of Montreal, p. 24ff , accessed on June 25, 2014 (English, UdeM without affiliated institutes, as of 2012).
Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′ 14.9 " N , 73 ° 36 ′ 51.6" W.