McGill University's Macdonald Campus is a 650-hectare site in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue housing the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
The Macdonald Campus is McGill University's 650-hectare campus located in the suburb of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, about 35 km from downtown. It is the largest green space on the Island and is home to the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Human Nutrition, and the Institute of Parasitology. The Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is described as a world-class centre of academic excellence recognized for its contribution to global grand challenges facing humanity and the environment.
The faculty's academic units include Animal Science, Bieler School of Environment, Bioresource Engineering, Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Human Nutrition, Natural Resource Sciences, Parasitology, and Plant Science. The Macdonald Campus offers a personalized learning experience, with much smaller class sizes than comparable courses at McGill's downtown campus. Students and faculty explore the impact of human activity on surrounding ecosystems, including reducing carbon emissions, protecting biodiversity, and creating sustainable alternative biofuels.
The faculty's research aims to deploy solutions to human-caused global warming and climate change, as well as to food security and food safety. It has six research themes, including Safe, nutritious and secure food supply and Water, soil, and their sustainable management. Research centres include the Brace Centre for Water Resources Management and the Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security. The Consortium RITA partners with Québec companies along the entire food processing value chain.
Campus facilities listed include a University farm, Morgan Arboretum, McGill University Herbarium, Lyman Entomological Museum, Macdonald Campus Library, Campus Store (Bookstore), and a Greenhouse and phytorium. Other listed facilities include 24-hour computer labs, a Bioresource Engineering Machine Shop, Food and Nutrition Laboratories, the Stewart Athletic Complex, and Café T.W.I.G.S.
Graduate admission routes listed include the M.Sc. and M.Sc. Applied in Human Nutrition, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Parasitology.