McGill, Concordia, UdeM: the bilingual undergraduate strategy nobody talks about
How French-speaking European students use Montréal as a back door into North American careers.
An undergraduate at McGill costs an EU citizen roughly C$58,000 a year — a serious sum, but two-thirds of an Ivy League sticker price. A French citizen pays only C$10,000, thanks to a long-standing France-Quebec accord.
That accord is the single best-kept secret in European higher education. A French eighteen-year-old can study at one of North America's best universities for the price of a flat-share in Paris.
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