Montreal has been ranked the 10th-best city in the world to be a university student, behind the top three of Paris, London and Boston. So while we may not have the Sorbonne, Oxford or Harvard, we have world-class universities in a city with a good student mix, a good quality of living, decent employer activity and good affordability. So says the 2012 QS World University Rankings, which did its first-ever QS Best Student Cities rankings this year.
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Montreal ranked 10th-best place in world to be a university student
And while we ranked lower than Melbourne, Australia; Vienna; Sydney; Zurich; Berlin; and Dublin, we can also say we rated higher than some pretty amazing cities, namely: Barcelona (11); New York (18); Hong Kong (19); Milan (21); Seoul (23); and Washington, D.C. (30).
