Airbnb

600

NDG, 30min away from my school in subway but 100% worth it

https://www.airbnb.fr/rooms/782403068676842196?source_impression_id=p3_1766842449_P3YrWLfiMmP8YiMX

Perfect, best place I have been to, cozy and calm, kind neighbor

La foufoune electrique = best bar, Café Campus = best club, Capello, Hiatus = best rooftop/ restaurant

Business for fashion, SME management = super easy, no final exam, International Marketing = useful and good teacher, Cultural Management = so so...

Very good international onboarding team, you will feel like home quickly, participate to all the orientation activities and welcome events, campus is big but you will find your way easily, dont be scared to ask people, les quebecois sont kind :)

Parc Omega MUST DOOO = 1h30 from montreal to observe all the emblematic animal from quebec. A lot of cities are accessible by bus, my advices = boston, nyc, toronto

The city is incredible, mont royal is the best place to walk, le plateau in summer to find the best restaurant, downtown the best club, get your opus card for the transport early to visit montreal and dont miss the old city with the port = so cute

Student Residence

560€

Dowtown

residence website

It was a nice accomadation to live in because it’s affordable, good location, direct access to the metro, equipments (gym, pool, common areas), safe

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N/A

Visa process is long and stressfull but worth it

new york, see whales in Tadoussac, Los Angeles

Winter is tough but it’s an experience

Coliving / Shared House

Around 600€/month

Le Plateau

Airbnb, Facebook

Yes. Nice apartment, well furnished.

Did not really go to clubs, I’m more of a house parties girl.

Very similar to my classes in France.

Nice campus, would pick again

Some nice trips, but it gets expensive. Would recommend Charlevoix and Saguenay, and a quick excursion to Québec City. Niagara falls are close as well.

Use bixi (bicycle subscription). Enjoy the various cafés, walk around. There’s a lot to do.

Shop groceries at Segal if you live near the Plateau.

Coliving / Shared House

550€ per month

Little Italy (30 min from school but near bars, cafes and downtown)

Facebook Marketplace

It was well-located (5 min walk from the Jean-Talon Market, orange and blue lines of the metro, and buses that go to downtown/plateau/mile-end). I'd pick the same place, it was renovated just before my arrival.

The St-Laurent Blvd and the St-Denis St are where most bars and clubs are. The Date is a karaoke-bar in the Village, such a good vibe ! Many microbreweries to discover (Le Siboire, Dieu du Ciel!) You have to do Igloofest in february, Piknic Electronik (every week-ends from may to october), and just enjoy the city and the many events they propose.

Classes are not that hard, most are in French but some are in English too. You have 2 weeks once the semester has started to change your choice of classes so you can try different ones to see which you prefer.

As an exchange student, I felt like there was not many event for me. They focus more on fully-enrolled students. You can still participate in everything, I just found it hard to make friends this way.

Enjoy Montreal, but there are so many national parks around the city. Go to a cottage for a week-end, there are so many ! If you want to really travel, New-York and Boston are only a 6 hour bus ride away ! But if you want to stay in Quebec, you can totally plan a road-trip to Lac St-Jean and Le Saguenay, Tadoussac (to see whales) or even Gaspésie (it's further but so worth it)

The weather is warm until mid-October, and then it starts to get cold but it's not as bad as everyone thinks. Yes it's cold but you can still do so many activities and enjoy your time here ! There will always be something to do during the week-ends

Try not to fall in a routine, and set yourself goals or write a bucket list so you know what you can do if you're ever bored (which you won't be!)

Coliving / Shared House

530

30 min to the university,5 min to the bats

Hello Montréal (agency)

Really smalk. Be careful to not book an apppartement 1/3 in the basement.

It is hard to be part of the university’s club life because we have class in the evening. But there are bars and clubs every where

We didn’t have the choice. Business economics is complicated but interesting.

Yeah amazing. Thé visa was the worst thing to get. The process was so hard I had to leave the country and come back

Toronto, New York

Le plateau is a very nice neighbourhood

Restaurants close quite early

Classic Apartment

800 euros/ month

Milton Parc

kangalou website 3562 ave lorne

Nope, noisy neighbors and an overall pretty dirty.

Le mal necessaire is good, thats about it

Doing business in emerging, markets and risk management, don't take portfolio management

campus is super cool, just far from the center

everything is far from Montréal, Quebec is nice, but to go to the US apart from the north east cost where the flights can sometimes be affordable, its generally complicated

Transport was horrible with several strikes meaning no metro at all for weeks on end, the weather is shockingly cold, the city is young which is nice, lots of homeless.

I would not recommend coming here, there are way nicer places to go to and which require less of a big GPA.

Coliving / Shared House

850$

Westmount

Hivenue agency Website

I wouldn’t recommend this apartment nor the hivenue agency as the apartment was very dirty when I arrived. The agency still stays available anytime but they don’t check after people leaving the apartment. They don’t check if it’s well maintained so when I arrived it was completely disgusting ! Plus, I was only with dirty people, but that depends on people !

I didn’t go to bars or clubs except for Club Privé because they host french rap themed nights and it was okay

I was in the Action culturelle programme and honestly I preferred my classes in France so I wouldn’t recommend any classes I had. However, there are many classes where you need to do a cultural project, and that could be fun (that was what my friends said)

the campus was okay, i had classes on the metro floor almost all the time so i didint have to go out in the cold, which was so great !!

New York is only a 6h drive and you can go by bus which is not that expensive ! you take it at night and arrive early in the morning so you have plenty of time !!! You can also take the train to Quebec which is a very pretty city or to Ottawa and Toronto which are not that far from Montreal

there are not that much metro, so you might need to do some things by bus so make sure to choose a housing near your university or easily accessible

if you struggle at the beginning it’s okay and it’s normal, you should/must try to make some friends as soon as possible because the semester ends so fast you won’t even realize it !!

Student Residence

1200

Downtown

LaMarq Residence

100% if you are Spanish. We were around 90 Spanish students living there at the same time.

Palazzo

Strategic Management, Operational Issues of International Trade and International Business, super interesting courses and great professors

the campus is cool but far away from downtown

We travelled almost every weekend, either by car (super convinient and cheap if you split if with friends) or by plane

Careful with the strikes

Airbnb

720

intersection between Sherbrooke avenue and Saint Laurent

Airbnb

The location is close to everything. The fact that it's an Airbnb means you have access to everything an apartment should have.

café campus baby Yoko luna

marketing à impact social

yes everything cool

New York Toronto La Mauricie

Upload bixi it's so helpful

Airbnb

725

25 from school

https://www.airbnb.fr/rooms/1243312335234009352?source_impression_id=p3_1764689544_P3pVJYBAUT4022Se

I could recommend this room because it is clean, modern and affordable for Montréal. But it is a bit far from the center by foot, so you need to take the metro.

I could recommend the bar "le clebard", "le bar darling", "le ptit caribou". I tend to live in Lille, Paris and Lisbon, so for me there is not a huge night life in Montréal, we tend to do party all the time at home with friends because people here go out only during weekends and in most of the clubs they are young people from 18 years old.

I did a graduate certificate in marketing so the lectures was good!

Mcgill is a good university especially for your resume, it makes a real difference. But the registration and administration part is quite difficult because now you need a "permis d'étude" to study and remove the international student fees, so a big big process that takes time and money...

The best thing to live in Montréal is to rent a car with friends (very cheap here) and go explore all the towns in Quebec and Toronto to visit the Niagara Falls. I went also to New York, by bus, because it is quite close to Montréal and not expensive. We do a lot of weekend "chalet", just rent on Airbnb a big chalet with a jacuzzi with friends and when you are 8 it is affordable and not expensive.

It is very safe. Take a monthly rent of "BIXI", to have a bike here! During two months from September to October the weather is amazing it is called the "été indien", so quite hot. And then for the cold winter, it is fine you just need to go to Uniqlo and buy some good clothes and a big doudoune.

Classic Apartment

560€/month

At le Plateau, 15min from school in subway or bike and a nice place to live in

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Yes, nice appartement, well located at a reasonable price Process are very simple But appartement are rentable only for a full year, not a semester

Piknic electro, igloofest...

I took the class of markets finance which was interesting but you have to stay implicated and it can be sometime a bit difficult because it's nightclass

The school does whatever she can to help your registration but it can be long because of state policies, so start all the process as soon as you can

You have many different opportunities to travel in Canada, with numerous national parks, many hikes, or ski resorts. You’re also close to the US (NYC or Boston), and you can easily fly to Caribbean islands or Mexico for a reasonable price.

Very cold during winter but incredible city

Classic Apartment

800

Plateau Montroyal

Marketplace Facebook

Yes it was very nice

Clubs : La Voute, Names on the way, Appartement 200 Events : Piknik electronique

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Mont Tremblant, Toronto, Banff parc national

Safety 10/10,

Coliving / Shared House

509€

Plateau Mont-Royal

Facebook Group, Marketplace

Great place to live in ! I totally recommend :)

Datcha, Café Campus, Barbossa, Monsieur Ricard

Business Economics is pretty cool !

Campus is awesone however registration is kind of hard because of Minerva, their internal platform.

Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec

Be prepare for negative temperatures.

Coliving / Shared House

400

Plamondon Avenue

Facebook marketplace

Yes, good accommodation, clean, good housemates, although far from the metro

Saint-Laurent, Crescent, Old port

GOL111 lots of lectures before each class but very interesting INF130 pretty interesting and useful but a lot of personal work GOL201 a lot of information that will be useful during internships or work MAT145 mostly revisions from what we learned earlier

Absolutely, big campus with a lot of student clubs and events

Took a 7h bus to Toronto to see family for Thanksgiving, could've been cheaper

Ignoring the STM strikes, there's a lot of events in the early fall, lots of people outside enjoying parks, doing sports etc

Have fun

Coliving / Shared House

750

Côte-De-Neiges, 20 min

Facebook

It is nice that I share my flat with other internationals but I believe that I could have gotten a bigger and better room for the same price.

Most bars are at Boul. Saint-Laurent

Industrial Thematic Cluster is relatively easy

Administration at Poly is very complicated. There is no clear overview on their website, so take your time to gather all the information.

Mont-Tremblant is really beautiful in fall times (end of sept. / beginning of oct.), Quebec is really pretty (almost European). For Poly students, follow PolyExplore on instagram. They organise fun trips for international students!

Transport by bixi or stm is easy. Clean city. A little knowledge of French (for in the shops, restaurants,...) is a must.

Coliving / Shared House

650euros

Le plateau

French living in Montreal groups

Nice because directly done with the local, he has a lot of advises on what to do or not, avoid fees and high prices of residences.

Mckibbins, Yoko Luna, piknic

Management in a global context is easy and no final exams.

Great campus, renowned uni, overall good teachers

Road trip to Ottawa, Toronto and Niagara Falls in 4 days. Road trip to Mount Washington New Hampshire.

Bixi is cheap, there are lots of nice places to date (Les trois monkeys, darling bar, gardens walk…), don’t forget taxes and tips…

Coliving / Shared House

700

Ridgewood

Facebook

Not at all, the people living with me were not really nice or clean

Saint Laurent, Old port are the best places (and you can fly to Cancun and Miami easily)

I really recommend the course : Management stratégique des organisations

Yes a lot of people you can get to know and the registration was easy with a lot of different course offers

I loved Mexico and my trips to the United States but you can also discover cities like Toronto and Vancouver

Very cold city in the winter so you have to have a good place to live because you won't be able to go outside sometimes

Try to spend some time there in summer to get used to the city and already know the places you like for the winter. Very good restaurants and bars. (Go to manga bistrot if you like sushis)

Coliving / Shared House

500

20min school

Facebook

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mid

classe difficile en finance. Très bon prof

choix cours facile/ syllabus très clair / bon cours mais pas ambiance exchange

Mexique / us vrmt cool Danse Canada pas fou

Transport et food okay

Classic Apartment

500

Near the Plateau Mont Royal, around 30 to 40 minutes because I had to take the bus to go the metro station and they're often late and not enough per hour.

Facebook MarketPlace

I wouldn't recommend this flat because I was with random citizen, and I think it's better to be near the university (Côte Des Neiges, Université de Montréal metro station, Outremont). I also recommend being in the center even if it's 30-40 minutes. I recommend visiting the place before going in. It's complicated to find a good flat in Montreal. Go with people you know or students that seem decent to never have issues.

I believe you should go to St-Laurent, there's many thing to do, near the Vieux-port is good. Depends on the vibe you're looking for. House music : Flyjin, La voûte (23-30 years old). Rap/HIp-hop : École Privée, Palazzo (younger audience like 18-22 years old). I recommend staying in Montreal during spring and especially summer, there's a lot of festivals, the vibe is immaculate!

If you're not expert in finance, i wouldn't recommend taking a class, some are easy but the majority is already advanced class, I'll recommend you to ask directly to students of HEC. Every other class about supply chain, marketing, international business is not too much work, but there's a lot of assignments at the end of the semester, so stay organized.

The campus is good, the library is good to study. There's two buildings, 10 minutes walk to go from one to another. I would definitely go there again. The registration is easy and simple, you can always communicate by mail to the Exchange Program. I would say Visa is more work than registration in itself.

I would recommend going to New York, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Toronto, Cancun, Dominican Republic. (Few recommendations depending on what you like)

Transport is around 60 CAD a month and easier to get your card by asking HEC. It's quite expensive, but the city is safe. Need to pack warm clothes for the winter.

I don't have any other recommendations except to tell you to enjoy and do all the activities possible!

Classic Apartment

1079 $CAD

Plateau (20 min bus to uni, 20–30 min to main districts)

Agence GetYourPlace, Facebook, Marketplace

Yes, simple installation and good comfort.

Depends on the quartier. Plateau, Mile-End, Petite Italie, Griffintown each have their own vibe. Clubs mostly downtown (Saint-Laurent, Sainte-Catherine). Big cultural festivals: Jazz Festival, Osheaga, Igloofest. Great parks to hang out: Parc La Fontaine, Mont-Royal.

Depends a lot on the profs and topics. Best to ask former students before choosing.

Campus is pleasant, good atmosphere, easier to meet people if you join an association. Courses require personal work but manageable. Go to class, presence helps to follow and avoid delays.

- Nature: Mont-Tremblant, Laurentides, Mauricie - Quebec City is a must, Ottawa is meh, Toronto & Niagara very touristy - US: New York by bus (9h) - Longer: Gaspésie, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Côte-Nord, Îles-de-la-Madeleine - Big trips: Western Canada (Vancouver, Banff, Jasper)

- Public transport and bikes make life easy in town - Budget: flights, housing, restaurants = biggest costs - Safety: globally safe but avoid Montréal-Nord and late walks in Le Village - Climate: very cold winter but manageable, nice summer - Food: mix of US/French, quality varies → go to local markets for fresh

The best advice always comes from locals, they know hidden gems that no guide shows.