The Université of Montreal is one of the four establishments of higher education of Montreal in Quebec. It is one of the ten large universities of the Canada (the second in term of the number of students) in addition to being one of three more important with the Quebec. According to a firm of external consultants, the University of Montreal is regarded as the 2nd university in importance in research topic in 2006.

History

In 1878, the Université Laval of Quebec opens an appendix in Montreal with a papal charter. It is the first French-speaking university of Montreal and it counts three faculties, all located in the Old man-Montreal:
  • theology (with the Great Seminar of Montreal);
  • right (with the Reading room of the Sulpicien S);
  • medicine (with the Castle Ramezay).

The Prélat of Quebec thus prevailed on that of Montreal (M {{gr.}} Le Bourget) which, a university autonomous in its city wanted to him.

Education in Quebec followed the French model and the secondary level was carried out in traditional colleges. The latter varied largely in quality, forcing the Laval University in Montreal to open a preparatory college to harmonize the level of its pupils in 1887. This last will become later the faculty of Arts in 1927 and will be the ancestor of CÉGEP S. In 1873, the university obtains a faculty of genius which one names the Polytechnic school and in 1907, the École of the high commercial studies (HEC) is founded.

October 8th, 1895, the University opens to it doors of its new building street Saint-Denis in what will become the Latin Quarter of Montreal. All its components open or emigrate towards this sector where they will remain during more than forty years. These buildings, as well as the new ones in the same district, will be used thereafter at the second French-speaking university as Montreal: the University from Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).

As of 1889, the the Vatican gives an administrative autonomy to this branch of the Laval university which can from now on choose its professors and grant its own diplomas. M {{gr.}} Buchési succeeds in obtaining the Holy See the total autonomy of the university on May 8th, 1919 and which will be from now on known under the name of Université of Montreal. February 14th, 1920, a provincial law officializes the whole. The metropolis becomes finally independent of the capital. This childbirth is done in the pain since three fires strike the buildings of the university between 1919 and 1921, which forces to use part of the funds raised by subscription for the rebuilding. Despite everything, seven new faculties: philosophy, letters, sciences, veterinary medicine, dental surgery, pharmacy and social sciences, economic and political are founded and the affiliated schools are integrated between 1920 and 1925. According to its new statute, it is a civil university and Edouard Montpetit is the first Laïc to found a faculty: that of social sciences.

Contrary to the anglophone universities like the University McGill, UdeM had problems to make liftings of funds for two reasons: the relative poverty of the French-speaking population of Montreal and direction of the university from Quebec. Autonomy helped largely on this point by developing a feeling of membership of Montréalais. Enough funds are accumulated to make it possible in 1930 to start the construction of the new building of UdeM on the Royal Mont according to the plans of the architect Ernest Cormier.

The university, maintaining with narrow in the Latin Quarter, must move its home there but the economic crisis of years 1930 applies a brake at construction as of 1931 and the direction even thinks of selling the building to pay the wages of its employees and teachers. In 1939, because of the financial problems, the university is put under supervision by the provincial government and this last injects funds which will lead to the restarting of construction in 1941.

It is thus installed on the side of the Royal Mont only in 1943, 300 years after Maisonneuve planted its cross there. Its partially uninhabited buildings are used for other ends during the Second world war. Of 1943 with 1945, in the western wing of the principal building, the scientists work in secrecy on a nuclear reactor within the framework of the Projet Manhattan.

In 1965, Roger Gaudry, whose principal house bears the name today, becomes the first laic vice-chancellor and proceeds to the reorientation of a university in full rise. With the Baby-boom and the Quiet revolution, the university community has several challenges to take up. The number of students passes from: 6000 in 1942: 9000 in 1965 and with more: 55000 today.

An big event of the last years in UdeM is certainly the slaughter of the Polytechnic school of Montreal . This day, on December 6th, 1989, a man, light machine gun with the fist, is introduced into the buildings and slaughtering wildly 14 people before being removed the life. Thirteen coeds and an employee are killed, all the women, in bond with her deep hatred of feminism. Since, on December 6th of each year, Polytechnique remembers. A foundation ensures the annual commemoration of the tragedy, which also made about fifteen blessées. A plate on the frontage of the building permanently points out the name of the victims and the place of 6-December-1989, angle Decelles and Queen-Mary, underlines the reality of the violence made to the women.

In 2007, the university posts a deficit record of 19 million dollars.

Vice-chancellors

Institutions

The University of Montreal is made up of fifteen following faculties:
  • Faculty of installation
  • Faculty of arts and sciences
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of further education
  • Faculty of the higher learning and postdoctorales
  • dental Medical college
  • Medical college
  • Medical college veterinary surgeon
  • Faculty of music
  • Faculty of pharmacy
  • Faculty of Science of the education
  • Faculty of Science nurses
  • Faculty of theology and sciences of the religions
  • Department of kinesiology
  • School ofoptometry

It also counts two affiliated schools:

And several research centres of which it:

  • Research center in Ethics of the University of Montreal
  • Canadian Center of German and European studies
  • Center of studies and international research of the University of Montreal (CERIUM)
  • Research center mathematics (CRM)

Department of the economic scenes

Its department of the economic scenes is distinguished particularly. According to a recent independent study (financed by European Economic Association), the Department of economic scenes of the University of Montreal is classified among the first two departments of economy in Canada, the first world rank among the French-speaking departments, and to the second world rank among the universities not-english-speaking.

Libraries

The University of Montreal counts the eighteen following libraries:
  • Installation
  • Biblio-economics and information sciences
  • Botanical
  • Chemistry
  • Right
  • Teaching software
  • É.P.C. - Biology (Education, psychology, psychoeducation, communication, biology)
  • Geography
  • Kinésiologie
  • Letters and social sciences
  • rare Books and special collections
  • Mathematical and data-processing
  • Veterinary medicine
  • Music
  • Ancillary medical Optometry
  • Physical
  • Health

It also counts an associated library:

  • Robert-Garry Information center which belongs to the Center of studies of East Asia (CÉTASE)

Like two libraries partners:

  • Myriam Library and J. - Robert Ouimet (HEC Montreal)
  • Library of the Polytechnic school of Montreal

Houses

Campus of the mountain

The principal campus of the University of Montreal east made up of the forty following houses:

Houses out of the principal campus

Affiliated hospitals

Future Outremont campus

The master line of spaces of the University of Montreal envisages the construction of new institutional spaces in the district montréalais of Outremont. This new campus, accessible by the subway Outremont, will be in particular made up of rooms of teaching, research as well as residences coeds. The places will be arranged in agreement with the ecocertification LEED. For more information, to consult the plan of installation of the Outremont campus.

Pioneers

The University of Montreal benefitted from sound 125e birthday (in 2003) to underline the excellence of the contribution of some of its pioneers who are not any more with his service and who particularly marked his history since 1878.

Former famous students

The Order of Merit is given annually to underline the success of certain old.

Among the famous graduates of the University, one notes:

Sporting teams

The whole of the sporting teams of the University of Montreal name the Carabins .
The University of Montreal has 10 different sporting teams
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