<p>Is this a good school? Is it in a good area?</p>
<p>Anyone have experience with this school or has visited?</p>
<p>While Concordia has improved a lot in the past 20 years, it will always be the “other” English university on Montreal, in the academic shadow of McGill.</p>
<p>The Sir George Williams campus is a concrete campus in downtown Montreal. The Loyola campus is a leafy campus in the anglophone West End of the city.</p>
<p>Thank you for answering. </p>
<p>Is it safe? Have you ever been there? Are they welcoming to international students?</p>
<p>Sure, Concordia is in the scientific shadow of McGill but we see a lot more transfers from McGill to Concordia than the other way around for business and education science for a reason. Personally, if I wanted to attend a B-school and I had to choose between Concordia and McGill (MBA or undergrad) I’d take Concordia unless I wanted to do accounting.</p>
<p>As far as I know it, Concordia shines in four areas: business, art, geography and pedagogy.</p>
<p>I’m doing an exchange program so I don’t care about McGill or how it’s “superior”. I just want to know about Concordia.</p>
<p>Concordia is seen as a good mid-level prestige university. Admittedly its prestige suffers from being in the same city as one of the best universities in the country, so I would say that it is a bit underrated. It has some pretty well known programs within the country, in particular I have heard good things about its communications program. One of the biggest benefits of being at Concordia is that you get to live in downtown Montreal which is an awesome experience.</p>
<p>I completely forgot about communications but it is good to think about a college in terms of its strengths…</p>
<p>Have any of you guys been to Montreal? If so, how was it an when did you go?</p>
<p>The thing with Montreal is that nightlife abounds (not concentrated around Concordia in particular but Concordia has access to nightlife), that alcohol is nowhere near a problem in college than it would be in the US and that it isn’t overly dangerous.</p>
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What? </p>
<p>Are you trying to say that Concordia is within distance of nightlife?</p>
<p>Have you been to Montreal? If so, when did you go?</p>
<p>All responders on this thread have been to Montreal. </p>
<p>I suggest that you get a map of the city. You can also search on YouTube for tourism videos of the city. You really sound clueless with your questions.</p>
<p>Sweet, you’ve been to Montreal? When did you go? Do you know anything about the engineering department?</p>
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This is understandable since I am asking questions about a school and country I have no knowledge about.</p>
<p>As a senior member of CC I assume that you are familiar with the internet. A quick search of the Concordia website would give you this:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.concordia.ca/admissions/pdf/Viewbook_eng.pdf[/url]”>http://www.concordia.ca/admissions/pdf/Viewbook_eng.pdf</a></p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to Concordia University, Montreal, 2011 - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>I am a graduate student at McGill, and I can tell you that Montreal is a fun city. It is full of interesting places and different shops and an especially a great selection of bars and clubs. Despite this it seems to be very safe, as I see young people walking through campus and the streets downtown all the time even late at night. In addition there seems to be festivals running constantly in this city. We had Just For Laughs comedy festival just last weekend and it was huge, a couple weeks before that there was the Saint-Jean-Baptiste day festival. I am not a native Montrealer but this city has rapidly become a second home to me. It seems like an excellent city to be a young person in, exciting but safe.</p>
<p>In the English universities (McGill and Concordia) all the services are in English so not knowing french is a barrier. In addition pretty much everyone I have met in the service industry is bilingual so you will have no trouble functioning in the city without knowing French. I would still recommend learning French though (I am trying to myself) because I think you miss out a bit on some aspects of the city if you don’t speak the a majority language.</p>
<p>Concordia is in the heart of downtown Montreal, even more than McGill, so I figure the urban atmosphere will be similar to my experience.</p>