Publish an internship
en
View University
Studies > Canada > Montreal > McGill University > Reviews 
Write Review

McGill University

221 reviews
4.14 / 5 based on 221 reviews
1 – 6 of 221
Next
Useful  |  0
McGill University Experience
Paul L
United States, Undergraduate
Financial Management, 2025
Overall
Teachers: All around not bad, some care a lot and will make themselves available to help out with any questions or problems. Some however are just there for the research and won’t exactly make themselves available whatsoever.
Students: All around great student life, most students are nice people and make the school what it is.
Courses: Most courses are taught very well and content wise are filled up with useful information.
Campus: The main campus is beautiful year round and is ver accessible and easy to understand.
Student life: Student life all around is great, 1st years live together and make friends there, or outside through clubs or sports, which are all also very well organized. 
Services: Career office can be helpful as long as you reach out and build connections with the employees in the office
Read more >
Careers
Career Office Review: You have to reach very deep to make relationships with people at career office; internships are scarce, they don’t tend to offer anything to you, a majority of Work is on you to do. All internship work that I did was from prior connections or networking on LinkedIn.
Read more >
Pros
Challenging courses
Cons
More helpful career offices and services
Useful  |  4
danielsoncarl
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
International Relations, Undergraduate, University Agreement
Overall
I wish I had known...
I didnt really have any difficulties whilst being in Canada but be sure to sort everything out with visa and registration before getting there. Also, arrive early to find a decent place to live because if you arrive too late - you might end up living in a dump!
Read more >
In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Academic reasons
4
Culture
4
Costs
2
Activities
2
Campus life
2
Party / people
3
Weather / location
4
Personal recommendation
Its a great university with good lecturers and an interesting selection of modules. The campus is stunning and its close to everything. There is a brilliant international student society which organises trips to ottawa, new york etc. Be sure to sign up!
Read more >
During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
4
Traveled
4
Improved language skills
2
Met people from other countries
4
Became more independent
4
Partied a lot
4
Experienced a change in life
3
Advanced my studies & career
4
Final comments
Organise pre-departure stuff early! Arrive early to get good accommodation. Be sure to do some travel. I went to Ottawa, in and about Montreal and also went by Greyhound bus all the way down to Miami! If you buy a greyhound ticket two weeks before departure it is substantially cheaper. A trip to either N.Y or Florida should be on everyones agenda whilst staying in Canada. Wish I had gone to Victoria and the Canadian West coast as well but when the semester starts you will be really busy with courses and there wont be much time to take a week off.. Prepare to study a LOT because the courses are quite demanding in terms of course work, and lectures.
Read more >
Useful  |  0
Science des données et apprentissage automatique
Marie-Noel L
Canada,
Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Overall
Mes principales connaissances acquises durant cette formation sont :
• La science des données pour les décisions d'affaires : générez des informations sur les données et améliorez les processus en tirant parti d'outils tels qu'Alteryx et Tableau.
• Statistique pour l’apprentissage automatique : Exposer les dimensions théoriques de l'apprentissage automatique conventionnel et examiner comment il s'applique aux problèmes des entreprises. Cela comprend, mais sans s'y limiter : la régression, la classification, les méthodes d'évaluation et de rééchantillonnage de modèles, la sélection de modèles et de variables, la réduction de dimension, les splines de lissage.
• Pratique de l’apprentissage automatique : un guide sur l'apprentissage profond et les réseaux de neurones dans différentes applications, y compris le traitement d'images, l'exploration de texte, les séries chronologiques, la détection d'anomalies, l'apprentissage par renforcement. Cela inclut, mais sans s'y limiter : Un réseau de neurones résiduels (ResNet), LSTM, CNN, Auto-Encoder, BERT et Transformer, astuces pour améliorer les performances. Mise en production avec GCP et TensorFlow.
• Données à l’échelle : expérience pratique de l'ingestion de données à l'analyse de grands ensembles de données (non structurées et structurées), à la fois hors ligne et en continu. Cela comprend: Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Nifi, HBase, Kafka, Flume, Solr.
• Projet Capstone: Mise en pratique des compétences acquises durant le programme par l’entremise d’un projet pratique (prédire le risque d’incendie dans la ville de Montréal). Préparation, analyse, visualisation des données, élaboration d’un modèle et présentation des recommandations découlant de l’analyse.
Read more >
Pros
Apprentissage à distance
Cons
Le prix
Useful  |  1
peterabramoff
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, University Agreement
Overall
I wish I had known...
No, not really, because McGill University sent me a lot of very useful info in advance.
Read more >
In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Academic reasons
4
Culture
3
Costs
2
Activities
4
Campus life
3
Party / people
3
Weather / location
2
Personal recommendation
Try to arrange a sort of room/apartment swap possibility for exchange students. It probably sounds easy to let exchange students from abroad to get in touch with Canadian students who are also going on exchange, but, as far as I know, such thing doesn't really exist.
Read more >
During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
4
Traveled
4
Improved language skills
4
Met people from other countries
4
Became more independent
4
Partied a lot
3
Experienced a change in life
3
Advanced my studies & career
4
Final comments
1. Visit Quebec City, it's a very nice "European" town where most people only speak French and the surroundings, as well as the center look beautiful, cozy and exciting. 2. Don't forget to go on a ski trip, it's possible during both all semesters (except the summer semester) and if you are not experienced with skiing, that's definitely not a problem. 3. Since Montreal is the heart of Canada's Quebec province, the native language of the majority of its population is French. If you want to improve your French or start learning it, choose Montreal for your exchange!
Read more >
Useful  |  1
Fredrik L
Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden
Engineering, Undergraduate, University Agreement
Overall
I wish I had known...
To save more money for travels.
Read more >
In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Academic reasons
2
Culture
4
Costs
2
Activities
3
Campus life
3
Party / people
3
Weather / location
2
Personal recommendation
McGill is a university with a good reputation, but most of all Montreal is a wonderful city.
Read more >
During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
3
Traveled
3
Improved language skills
3
Met people from other countries
3
Became more independent
3
Partied a lot
4
Experienced a change in life
4
Advanced my studies & career
3
Final comments
For travelling eastern Canada and North-eastern US is accessible by car on weekend trips. Also the International Students' Network (MISN) arranges excellent trips.
Read more >
Useful  |  0
peterabramoff
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, University Agreement
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Government assistance
Other sources of funding:
A private grant
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
FOOD: I often spent long hours at school and ate at restaurants. TELEPHONE: I mostly made long-distance calls. Cost/minute is pretty low (compared with Sweden) when pre-paid cards are used. You can buy these pretty much everywhere and the competition between the different providers is cut-throat (good for your wallet :)
Read more >
Overall, Housing, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Travel, Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Telephone:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand text books
Second-hand household items
Computers / Internet
Administrative
Money from home
Personal comments
If you wanna open a bank account in Canada during your stay, it may be a good idea to check out CIBC, they had good deals for students (especially if you stay as a client at least 90 days and keep a minimum of 1000 CAD in the account). However, always check the latest information with different banks, things may change with time...
Read more >
1 – 6 of 221
Next