<p>I've been hearing a lot of this on CC and I find it hard to beleive.</p>
<p>Apparently it's because of $$, but many Unis have that problem come and go, it never means that it's going down that much...</p>
<p>i think McGill is going up these years..its management got a 22-million gift (the largest gift ever donated to a business school in Canada)...Engineering got Trotier gift ..Medicine and Science continue to be the traditionally strongest departments...McGill is good at attracting private funds...but the part from Quebect government is a problem though</p>
<p>In Maclean's, the current McGill principal says that despite being "grotesquely underfunded", McGill has been able to deliver a world-class education. So yes, relatively speaking, McGill does not have that much money to throw around - the thing with the Quebec student's tuition being frozen by the Quebec government at $2000 CAD a year doesn't help raise spending funds.</p>
<p>If you're looking for objectivity you might want to reconsider posting this here since most people here are going to McGill and will want to think highly of it so they'll want to insist that McGill has no such problem.</p>
<p>Yea thats what I was thinking</p>
<p>hah, do you really think ppl will be more objective outside of this forum? I've never seen so much McGill bashing anywhere else! I've heard of McGill being underfunded several years ago, but apparently they've sorted out the situation in the past few years. But in general, for a university of McGill's stature, it probably still is underfunded especially compared to universities in the states. But to be objective, this is not only a McGill or a Quebec issue, because the last article I've read about "chronic underfunding" was about Ontario universities:</p>
<p>btw, I don't see how McGill is slipping down if it rose to #1 this year in Macleans, was named Research University of the Year by Infosource (McGill has the highest per faculty research funding in the country), and was the top ranked Canadian university in the Times of London World Ranking.</p>
<p>Yea exactly, I've been reading and hearing that UT and Mcgill are now neck and neck, how is that possible?</p>
<p>Something that help UT and mcgill in the rankings are that that are both HUGE and the best schools in Canada along w/ UBC</p>