Concordia University
University in Montreal
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2024 | QS World University Rankings placed Concordia University 387th in the world. |
October 2023 | Maclean's ranked Concordia University 9th in Canada under its comprehensive universities category. |
2022 | Concordia Stingers women's ice hockey team won the Canadian national championships. |
2022 | John Molson School of Business ranked among the top 10 Canadian business schools and top 100 worldwide by The Economist. |
2022 | During the 2022-23 academic year, the John Molson School of Business had 9,097 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled. |
2022 | Concordia University's Faculty of Fine Arts recorded 3,982 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled during the 2022-23 academic year. |
2022 | Concordia University offers more than 400 undergraduate programs across four faculties and approximately 120 graduate programs through the School of Graduate Studies. |
September 2022 | Academic year begins with 35,404 undergraduate students, 10,084 graduate students, and 4,410 continuing education students enrolled at Concordia University. |
2021 | Concordia University received $586.5 million in revenue, with 52% coming from Government of Quebec grants based on student population. |
December 2020 | Concordia opened the $63.1-million Applied Science Hub on the Loyola Campus, designed to enable interdisciplinary collaboration and research between various faculties and the District 3 Innovation Centre. |
February 2019 | Concordia University became the first university in Canada to issue a sustainable bond, valued at $25 million with a 20-year duration and a 3.626% yield, aimed at generating environmental and social benefits aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals. |
2018 | Gina Cody donated $15 million to Concordia University, leading to the renaming of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science in her honor. This made it the first engineering school in Canada and globally to be named after a woman. |
2018 | Maclean's ranked the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science programs as one of the best in Canada. |
January 2018 | Concordia President Alan Shepard reported that the university had already raised more than half of its campaign fundraising goal. |
November 2017 | Concordia University launched the Campaign for Concordia, initially targeting $250 million in fundraising to support the university's strategic directions. |
2015 | Alpha Epsilon Pi (ΑΕΠ) fraternity established its Gamma Lambda chapter at Concordia University. |
2015 | Sigma Thêta Pi fraternity founded its Mu chapter on the Concordia campus (which has since gone dormant). |
September 2015 | Held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the District 3 Innovation Center's new space in the Faubourg Building. |
September 2 2014 | Concordia Library opened the Grey Nuns Reading Room, a silent study space located in the former Chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross. |
2012 | The Link student newspaper left the Canadian University Press (CUP) network. |
2011 | The Grey Nuns Mother House site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. |
April 2010 | A 120-metre underground tunnel was completed, connecting the Guy-Concordia Metro station with the Henry F. Hall Building and the J.W. McConnell Building. |
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