McGill University is a public university in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1821. It reports 40,531 students in Fall 2025, of whom 1,638 were in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Professor H. Deep Saini is President and Vice-Chancellor.
The faculty is based on the Macdonald Campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. Its academic units include Animal Science, Bioresource Engineering, Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Plant Science and a Farm Management and Technology program. Its research themes include sustainable crop and livestock production systems, a safe and secure food supply, and water and soil management. The Macdonald Campus Farm covers 240 hectares with a dairy herd, a poultry facility, a large animal research unit, a horticulture research centre and the Emile A. Lods agronomy research centre. In April 2026 McGill opened a teaching greenhouse and the Eastern Canadian Plant Phenotyping Platform (ECP3), developed with Université de Sherbrooke and supported by $23.8 million in provincial and federal funding. Its Consortium RITA works with Québec food processing companies on innovation and technology transfer.