Quacquarelli Symonds, a British company that specializes in education, ranks the world’s best student-friendly universities cities every year,

The ranking system is based on a survey of 50,000 students and looks at the advantages and disadvantages of university cities for students. The factors that are considered include cultural life, safety, employer activity and cost of living. Once again, Montreal tops this list as the best University City for students in North America.

Montreal has it All

Montreal is home to 4 major universities namely Concordia, McGill, Universite de Montreal and Universite du Quebec a Montreal.

Montreal is a well-laid out city and the universities are ideally located either on downtown or a 10-minute subway ride from downtown. The city center has plenty of universities’ libraries and learning halls. Students are, therefore, a visible part of the society.

Living in Montreal is affordable and with the expanding health sectors and IT, students can find meaningful jobs here.

Finally, Montreal is a great place to host meetings.

4 Facts about the Montreal Student Life

• Montreal has the most research centers.
• 185,000 students live in Montreal.
• Montreal attracts more than 25,000 international students from over 150 countries. This is the largest group of foreign academics in the country.
• On a lighter note, McGill University was dubbed “The Harvard of Canada” on The Simpsons.