Concordia University

Concordia University is a public English-language research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and it is one of only three universities in the province where English is the primary language of instruction.协和大学是一所位于加拿大魁北克省蒙特利尔的公立英语研究型大学，也是该省仅有的三所以英语为主要教学语言的大学之一。

Founded on 24 August 1974 by the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, it takes its name from the city of Montreal's motto Concordia salus, which means well-being through harmony.学校于 1974 年 8 月 24 日由洛约拉学院与乔治·威廉姆斯爵士大学合并成立，校名取自蒙特利尔市市训“Concordia salus”，意为“和谐带来福祉”。

It is placed 497th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, enrolled 48,458 students in credit and non-credit courses in 2025-26, and reports more than 270,000 living alumni.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 497，2025 至 2026 学年学分与非学分课程注册总数达 48,458 人，在世校友逾 27 万人。

History

• Loyola College grew out of the English-language programme of Collège Sainte-Marie, a Jesuit college founded in Montreal in 1848, and it became a separate institution in 1896.洛约拉学院源自 1848 年在蒙特利尔创办的耶稣会学院圣玛丽学院下设的英语教学项目，并于 1896 年成为独立学院。

• Loyola was first located downtown and later moved to land acquired in 1900 in the city's west end, occupying the three original buildings of its present campus in 1916.洛约拉学院最初设于市中心，其后迁至 1900 年在城市西端购得的土地，并于 1916 年启用现校区最初的三座建筑。

• Loyola began awarding university degrees through Université Laval in 1903 and transferred that affiliation to Université de Montréal in 1920, since the college never obtained a university charter of its own.洛约拉学院自 1903 年起经拉瓦尔大学授予学位，1920 年改为挂靠蒙特利尔大学，因为学院始终未能取得独立的大学特许状。

• The college opened its School of Sociology in 1918 and created a Faculty of Science together with a Department of Engineering in 1940.学院于 1918 年设立社会学系，又于 1940 年组建理学院与工程系。

• In 1940 its classical college curriculum gave way to a four-year liberal arts model, academic majors were introduced in 1953 and honours programmes followed in 1958.1940 年其古典学院课程改为四年制文理学院模式，1953 年开设主修专业，1958 年又增设荣誉学位课程。

• Loyola, which had admitted almost exclusively English-speaking Catholic men since its founding, became co-educational in 1959 and had begun offering evening courses for working students in 1958.洛约拉学院创校以来几乎只招收英语天主教男性学生，1959 年起实行男女同校，并自 1958 年起开设面向在职学生的夜校课程。

• The first YMCA in North America was established in Old Montreal in 1851, and from 1873 it offered evening classes so that working people could study after their day jobs.北美第一家基督教青年会于 1851 年在蒙特利尔老城成立，自 1873 年起开办夜校课程，让劳动者得以在白天工作之余求学。

• In 1926 the YMCA's education programme was reorganised as Sir George Williams College, named after the founder of the original London YMCA, and it introduced university-level courses in 1929.1926 年，基督教青年会的教育项目改组为乔治·威廉姆斯爵士学院，以伦敦基督教青年会创始人命名，并于 1929 年开设大学水平课程。

• The college offered Canada's first undergraduate credit course in adult education in 1934, conferred its first university degrees in 1936 and received a provincial university charter in 1948.该学院于 1934 年开设加拿大首个成人教育本科学分课程，1936 年首次授予大学学位，1948 年获得省颁大学特许状。

• It moved into its first standalone building, the Norris Building, in 1956, was renamed Sir George Williams University in 1959, founded a Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies in 1963 and built the Henry F. Hall Building in 1966.学院于 1956 年迁入首座独立建筑诺里斯大楼，1959 年更名为乔治·威廉姆斯爵士大学，1963 年成立人际关系与社区研究中心，1966 年建成亨利·F·霍尔大楼。

• In 1969 the university drew international attention when six West Indian students protesting an alleged racist remark occupied and damaged its computer centre, an event that caused about two million dollars of damage and remains Canada's largest student occupation.1969 年，六名西印度学生因抗议教师涉嫌种族歧视言论而占领并损毁学校计算机中心，事件造成约两百万加元损失，至今仍是加拿大规模最大的学生占领事件。

• The aftermath of that confrontation prompted the university to create an Ombuds Office and to adopt University Regulations on Rights and Responsibilities in April 1971.冲突之后，学校设立申诉专员办公室，并于 1971 年 4 月通过《大学权利与责任条例》。

• After Quebec's Parent Commission recommended the secularisation of the education system in 1968, the two institutions negotiated a union, and the Government of Quebec recognised their merger on 24 August 1974, creating Concordia University.1968 年魁北克帕朗委员会建议教育体系世俗化之后，两校开始商议合并，魁北克省政府于 1974 年 8 月 24 日批准合并，协和大学由此成立。

• Its armorial bearings, granted by the College of Arms in London on 23 December 1976 and designed by the English professor David McKeen, carry the single word Concordia on the ribbon beneath the shield.学校纹章于 1976 年 12 月 23 日由伦敦纹章院授予，由英语教授戴维·麦基恩设计，盾牌下方绶带上只书“Concordia”一词。

• The new university's athletics teams were unified as the Concordia Stingers in 1975, the Faculty of Fine Arts was established the same year and the Faculty of Arts and Science was formed in 1977.新大学于 1975 年将各运动队统一为“协和毒刺”，同年成立美术学院，1977 年又组建文理学院。

• In 1978 the university opened the Liberal Arts College, Lonergan University College and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, the last being Canada's first women's studies programme.1978 年，学校开设文理学院、洛纳根大学学院与西蒙娜·德·波伏娃研究所，其中后者是加拿大第一个妇女研究项目。

• It launched its Institute for Co-operative Education in 1981, and in 1982 its business faculty hosted the world's first international MBA case competition, now the John Molson MBA International Case Competition.学校于 1981 年设立合作教育研究所，1982 年其商学院主办了全球首个国际 MBA 案例竞赛，即如今的约翰·莫尔森 MBA 国际案例竞赛。

• The Oscar Peterson Concert Hall opened on the Loyola Campus in 1990, and in 1992 the R. Howard Webster Library and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery opened inside the new J.W. McConnell Building.奥斯卡·彼得森音乐厅于 1990 年在洛约拉校区启用，1992 年 R·霍华德·韦伯斯特图书馆与伦纳德和比娜·艾伦美术馆在新落成的 J.W. 麦康奈尔大楼内开放。

• On 24 August 1992 a mechanical engineering professor, Valery Fabrikant, shot five colleagues on the ninth floor of the Hall Building and killed four of them, and the university later installed four granite tables in the lobby as a memorial.1992 年 8 月 24 日，机械工程系教授瓦列里·法布里坎特在霍尔大楼九层开枪射杀五名同事，其中四人遇难，学校后来在大楼门厅安置四张花岗岩长桌作为纪念。

• A major phase of expansion began in 1998, and the university opened the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex on the Loyola Campus in 2003 and the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex downtown in 2005.学校自 1998 年起进入大规模扩建阶段，2003 年在洛约拉校区建成理查德·J·雷诺科学综合体，2005 年又在市中心启用工程、计算机科学与视觉艺术综合大楼。

• It moved the John Molson School of Business into a new downtown tower in 2009 and opened the PERFORM Centre and the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics on the Loyola Campus in 2011.学校于 2009 年将约翰·莫尔森商学院迁入市中心新塔楼，2011 年又在洛约拉校区启用运动表现中心与结构功能基因组学中心。

• In 2018 the engineering faculty became the Gina Cody School after a landmark donation, in 2020 the Applied Science Hub opened on the Loyola Campus and in 2023 the School of Health was launched alongside a 123 million dollar federal electrification grant.2018 年工学院在获巨额捐赠后更名为吉娜·科迪学院，2020 年应用科学中心在洛约拉校区启用，2023 年健康学院成立，同年学校还获得 1.23 亿加元的联邦电气化研究拨款。

Academics

• Concordia is organised into four faculties, namely Arts and Science, Fine Arts, the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science and the John Molson School of Business, together with a School of Graduate Studies and a School of Health.协和大学设有四个学院，即文理学院、美术学院、吉娜·科迪工程与计算机科学学院以及约翰·莫尔森商学院，另设研究生院与健康学院。

• It offers more than 400 undergraduate programmes and about 120 graduate programmes leading to master's and doctoral degrees, diplomas and certificates.学校开设 400 多个本科专业与约 120 个研究生专业，可授予硕士、博士学位以及文凭与证书。

• The Faculty of Arts and Science consists of 21 departments and seven colleges, schools and institutes, offers 257 programmes and more than 2,400 courses, and employs 869 full-time and part-time faculty members.文理学院下设 21 个系与 7 个学院、学校和研究所，开设 257 个专业与 2,400 多门课程，聘有 869 名全职与兼职教师。

• The Gina Cody School offers more than 50 undergraduate and graduate programmes across civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineering, computer science and software engineering.吉娜·科迪学院在土木、化学、电气、机械与航空航天工程、计算机科学与软件工程等领域开设 50 多个本硕专业。

• The Faculty of Fine Arts offers 26 undergraduate and 17 graduate programmes through nine departments and four research institutes, including the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.美术学院通过 9 个系与 4 个研究所开设 26 个本科与 17 个研究生专业，其中包括梅尔·霍彭海姆电影学院。

• The John Molson School of Business teaches 18 programmes from five departments, namely Accountancy, Finance, Marketing, Management, and Supply Chain and Business Technology Management.约翰·莫尔森商学院由会计、金融、市场营销、管理以及供应链与商务技术管理五个系开设 18 个专业。

• In 2025-26 the university enrolled 43,922 students in credit courses, of whom 36,456 were undergraduates and 7,517 graduates, plus 4,653 continuing education students, for a grand total of 48,458.2025 至 2026 学年，学校学分课程注册 43,922 人，其中本科生 36,456 人、研究生 7,517 人，另有继续教育学生 4,653 人，总计 48,458 人。

• International students made up 20 per cent of credit enrolment in 2025-26, with the largest groups coming from France, India, Iran, the United States and China.2025 至 2026 学年国际学生占学分课程注册人数的 20%，来源最多的国家为法国、印度、伊朗、美国与中国。

• The Gina Cody School is named after the alumna Gina Cody, who donated 15 million dollars in 2018, making it the first engineering faculty in Canada to be named after a woman.吉娜·科迪学院以校友吉娜·科迪命名，她于 2018 年捐赠 1,500 万加元，使该院成为加拿大首个以女性命名的工学院。

• Concordia received more than 35 million dollars from the Canada Foundation for Innovation after that programme was created in 1997, and its Canada Research Chairs grew from three in 2004 to 28 by 2020.自 1997 年加拿大创新基金会设立以来，学校累计获得该基金会逾 3,500 万加元资助，其加拿大研究讲席数由 2004 年的 3 个增至 2020 年的 28 个。

• In 2023 the university won a 123 million dollar Canada First Research Excellence Fund grant for Volt-Age, an electrification and decarbonisation programme that brings together more than 140 researchers.2023 年，学校获得 1.23 亿加元“加拿大首研卓越基金”拨款，用于 Volt-Age 电气化与脱碳研究计划，该计划汇聚 140 多名研究人员。

• In 2022 Concordia launched its Applied AI Institute to advance interdisciplinary work in health care, cybersecurity and smart cities, with a focus on the ethical use of artificial intelligence.2022 年学校成立应用人工智能研究院，推动医疗、网络安全与智慧城市领域的跨学科研究，并强调人工智能的伦理应用。

• The university runs an Institute for Co-operative Education that administers more than 70 bachelor's and master's programmes in an alternating paid work-study format.学校设有合作教育研究所，管理 70 多个采用带薪交替式工学结合模式的本科与硕士专业。

• The John Molson School of Business holds accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and counts 61,000 alumni.约翰·莫尔森商学院通过国际商学院协会认证，拥有 61,000 名校友。

• The university library holds special collections including the Azrieli Holocaust Collection and the Irving Layton Collection, and it maintains an open access research repository called Spectrum.学校图书馆藏有阿兹列里大屠杀特藏与欧文·莱顿特藏等特色馆藏，并运营名为 Spectrum 的开放获取成果库。

• Concordia's four faculties together grant about 7,900 degrees and certificates a year, including roughly 5,600 bachelor's degrees and 300 doctorates in 2025-26.协和大学四个学院每年授予约 7,900 个学位与证书，其中 2025 至 2026 学年授予学士学位约 5,600 个、博士学位 300 个。

Campus

• Concordia operates two campuses about seven kilometres apart, connected by a free shuttle bus service for students, faculty and staff.协和大学运营两个相距约七公里的校区，校区间为学生、教师与职员提供免费班车。

• The Sir George Williams Campus is the main campus, set in the Quartier Concordia district of downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie.乔治·威廉姆斯爵士校区为主校区，位于蒙特利尔市中心维勒玛丽区内的“协和街区”。

• The Loyola Campus occupies the residential west-end district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, on the site where Loyola College settled in 1916.洛约拉校区位于西端住宅区圣母恩典区，正是洛约拉学院 1916 年迁入的旧址。

• The downtown campus centres on the Guy-Concordia metro station, and since 2010 an underground tunnel links the Henry F. Hall and J.W. McConnell buildings with the station.市中心校区以盖伊—协和地铁站为中心，自 2010 年起一条地下通道将亨利·F·霍尔大楼、J.W. 麦康奈尔大楼与地铁站相连。

• The John Molson Building, a 15-storey tower opened in September 2009 at the corner of Guy Street and De Maisonneuve Boulevard, houses about 9,100 business students and is linked to the EV Building by a tunnel.约翰·莫尔森大楼是一座 15 层塔楼，于 2009 年 9 月在盖伊街与德迈松讷夫大道西北角启用，容纳约 9,100 名商科学生，并有隧道与综合大楼相连。

• The university acquired the Grey Nuns Mother House, built in 1871 and designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2011, and its residence there now houses nearly 250 students each year.学校购下建于 1871 年的灰衣修女会母院，该建筑 2011 年被列为加拿大国家历史遗址，其宿舍每年可容纳近 250 名学生。

• Concordia has three main library locations, the R. Howard Webster Library, the Georges P. Vanier Library and the Grey Nuns Reading Room, a silent study space opened in 2014 in a former chapel.协和大学设有三个主要图书馆，即 R·霍华德·韦伯斯特图书馆、乔治·P·瓦尼耶图书馆，以及 2014 年在一座旧礼拜堂内开设的灰衣修女阅览室。

• The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, housed in the Henry F. Hall Building, holds a collection of 1,800 paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and videos.伦纳德和比娜·艾伦美术馆设于亨利·F·霍尔大楼内，藏品包括 1,800 件绘画、雕塑、版画、摄影与影像作品。

Reputation

• Concordia is placed 497th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, a position that keeps it among the world's leading young universities.协和大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 497，稳居全球领先的年轻大学之列。^[1]

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university stands in the 651-700 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 770th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 651 至 700 区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 770。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it lies in the 601-700 band, having been placed between 501 and 600 in the 2023 edition of the same ranking.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 601 至 700 区间，在 2023 年同一榜单中则位列 501 至 600 之间。^[2]

• Times Higher Education placed Concordia first in North America among universities under 50 years old in its 2024 Young University Rankings.泰晤士高等教育在 2024 年年轻大学排名中将协和大学列为北美 50 岁以下大学第一名。

• Maclean's ranked Concordia fifth among Canadian comprehensive universities in its 2025 reputational survey, up from ninth place in the same category in 2023.在《麦克林》杂志 2025 年声誉调查中，协和大学在加拿大综合类大学中位列第 5，高于 2023 年同类榜单的第 9 位。

• OpenAlex records 76,879 scholarly works by Concordia researchers cited more than 3.48 million times, figures that place it among Canada's more research-intensive universities.OpenAlex 收录协和大学研究人员的学术成果 76,879 项，被引用逾 348 万次，这一数字使其跻身加拿大科研密集度较高的大学之列。

• In the 2026 Shanghai Ranking global subject rankings Concordia is placed 41st in the world and second in Canada for civil engineering, and CSRankings puts its software engineering research first in Canada.在 2026 年软科世界一流学科排名中，该校土木工程位列全球第 41、加拿大第 2；CSRankings 则将其软件工程研究列为加拿大第一。

• Bloomberg Businessweek placed the John Molson School of Business second in Canada in its 2026-2027 rankings, and The Princeton Review ranked its on-campus MBA first in the country for 2027.彭博《商业周刊》在 2026 至 2027 年排名中将约翰·莫尔森商学院列为加拿大第 2；《普林斯顿评论》则将其校内 MBA 项目评为 2027 年加拿大第一。

• Concordia reached the world's top 200 in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for Sustainability and placed 24th in Canada in the 2025 Research Infosource ranking of the country's top 50 research universities.协和大学在 2026 年 QS 世界大学可持续发展排名中进入全球前 200，并在 2025 年 Research Infosource 加拿大 50 强研究型大学榜单中位列第 24。

Student life

• The university's motto, Concordia salus, is the same phrase used by the city of Montreal and expresses well-being through harmony, a sentiment echoed by the single word Concordia on its coat of arms.学校校训“Concordia salus”与蒙特利尔市市训相同，意为“和谐带来福祉”，其纹章绶带上只书“Concordia”一词，与此呼应。

• Its varsity teams are known as the Concordia Stingers, a name adopted in 1975 when the Loyola Warriors and the Sir George Williams Georgians merged, and it fields ten varsity teams in U Sports.学校校队名为“协和毒刺”，该名称于 1975 年洛约拉勇士队与乔治·威廉姆斯乔治亚队合并后启用，目前在 U Sports 体系下设有十支校队。

• The Stingers women's ice hockey team won the inaugural national championship of what is now U Sports in 1998 and took the Canadian university title again in 1999, 2022 and 2024.毒刺女子冰球队于 1998 年夺得如今 U Sports 体系下的首届全国冠军，并又在 1999 年、2022 年与 2024 年问鼎加拿大大学冠军。

• Four residence buildings serve students who live on campus, namely the Grey Nuns Residence, the Jesuit Residence and the two Hingston Hall buildings, while the student union runs an off-campus housing and job bank.校内住宿共有四栋，即灰衣修女宿舍、耶稣会宿舍与两栋欣斯顿堂，学生会还运营面向校外住宿与求职的服务平台。

• Concordia has a campus radio station, CJLO, formed in 1998 from two predecessor stations, a television station, CUTV, and two student newspapers, The Link and The Concordian.协和大学设有校广播电台 CJLO（1998 年由两个前身电台合并而成）、校电视台 CUTV，以及两份学生报纸《The Link》与《The Concordian》。

• The Concordia Student Union represents more than 35,000 undergraduates and became legally accountable only to its members after an accreditation referendum in December 2000.协和大学学生会代表逾 35,000 名本科生，2000 年 12 月公投通过认证后，学生会只对会员负法律责任。

• The campuses sit entirely within Montreal, so street life, the Quartier Concordia redevelopment begun in 2005 and the city's bilingual culture all shape daily student experience.学校校区完全嵌入蒙特利尔市区，街头生活、2005 年启动的“协和街区”改造以及城市的双语文化共同塑造着学生的日常生活。

Notable people

• Loyola College was named in honour of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, under whose Jesuit auspices the college began its teaching.洛约拉学院以耶稣会创始人依纳爵·罗耀拉命名，学院正是在耶稣会主持下开始办学的。

• Sir George Williams College took its name from George Williams, the English founder of the first YMCA in London, on which the Montreal YMCA that began the evening classes was modelled.乔治·威廉姆斯爵士学院之名取自伦敦首家基督教青年会创办人乔治·威廉姆斯，蒙特利尔开办夜校的青年会正是以其为范本。

• The poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen studied at Sir George Williams University in the 1950s before becoming one of Canada's most celebrated literary and musical figures.诗人、创作歌手莱昂纳德·科恩 1950 年代曾就读于乔治·威廉姆斯爵士大学，后来成为加拿大最负盛名的文学与音乐人物之一。

• The novelist Mordecai Richler also attended Sir George Williams University, and his Montreal novels made the city a central subject of Canadian literature.小说家莫迪凯·里奇勒同样就读于乔治·威廉姆斯爵士大学，他以蒙特利尔为背景的多部小说让这座城市成为加拿大文学的核心题材。

• Among those arrested in the 1969 computer centre incident were Roosevelt Douglas, later Prime Minister of Dominica, and Anne Cools, who became a Canadian senator.1969 年计算机中心事件中被捕者包括后来出任多米尼克总理的罗斯福·道格拉斯，以及后来成为加拿大参议员的安妮·库尔斯。

• The alumna Gina Cody, a civil engineer who earned her doctorate at the university, gave 15 million dollars in 2018 and became the namesake of its engineering school.校友吉娜·科迪是土木工程师，在母校取得博士学位，2018 年捐资 1,500 万加元，其名字被用于命名学校工学院。

• In 2019 the university appointed Ursula Eicker as its first Canada Excellence Research Chair, in smart, sustainable and resilient communities and cities, a programme worth up to 10 million dollars over seven years.2019 年，学校聘请乌尔苏拉·艾克担任首位加拿大卓越研究讲席教授，研究方向为智能、可持续且具韧性的社区与城市，该项目七年资助上限为 1,000 万加元。

• Karim Zaghib, a battery scientist, leads Concordia's Volt-Age electrification and decarbonisation programme, which involves more than 140 researchers from academia, industry and Indigenous communities.电池科学家卡里姆·扎吉卜主持协和大学的 Volt-Age 电气化与脱碳计划，该计划联合学术界、产业界与原住民社区的 140 多名研究人员。

• The Oscar Peterson Concert Hall on the Loyola Campus honours the Montreal-born jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, one of the most decorated musicians in Canadian history.洛约拉校区的奥斯卡·彼得森音乐厅致敬蒙特利尔出生的爵士钢琴家奥斯卡·彼得森，他是加拿大历史上获奖最多的音乐家之一。

• The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, named in 1997 after the Montreal cinema entrepreneur Mel Hoppenheim, is Canada's largest university-based centre for the study of film animation and film production.梅尔·霍彭海姆电影学院于 1997 年以蒙特利尔电影企业家梅尔·霍彭海姆命名，是加拿大最大的大学电影动画与电影制作教学中心。