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DORMS, APARTMENTS AND SHARED HOUSES

The people you meet and the friends you make are an important part of your university life. Each year, McGill residences house approximately 2,200 new first-year students. Residences offer a variety of accommodations, reflecting the diversity of our student population:

  • Downtown residences are located both on campus and adjacent to it in a variety of settings, from the mountainside location of our dormitory halls to neighbourhood streets that feature shared-facilities housing and apartment residences.
  • The award-winning Solin Hall has three- and four-bedroom apartments just west of campus and is close to a bustling public market.
  • Royal Victoria College offers women-only housing.
  • Accommodations for First Nations students are available through the First Peoples' House.
  • Macdonald Campus residences are located on the beautiful grounds in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, and include Laird Hall and the EcoResidence, featuring environmentally-friendly living quarters.

Dormitory-style residences offer single or double rooms and include meal plans. Apartment-style residences and shared-facilities housing may be the right choice for students who enjoy cooking for themselves or have special dietary needs, as they do not include a meal plan, though any student can purchase meal cards for residence cafeterias.

If you prefer to live on your own, the Off-Campus Housing Office can help you find a place to live in a nearby neighbourhood.

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Coming from a small Quebec town made the prospect of moving to the big city and studying at a large, renowned university scary at first. The student population of Montreal, along with the resources and warmth of the McGill community, made the transition quite easy for me.

Faculty of Arts student ASHLEY ZIAI, BA'10, came to McGill to major in International Relations, with a double minor in Middle East studies and languages. She's not only comfortable with McGill and Montreal now - she's working as a student tour guide at the University during the summer.