Academics

The Academic Experience at Bishop’s

At Bishop’s, academics are about more than earning a degree. You’ll learn from award-winning professors, explore flexible degree options across disciplines and build meaningful connections that shape your academic experience. From research opportunities and experiential learning to personalized mentorship, your education is designed to help you grow intellectually, personally and professionally.

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Scholars Who Teach

At Bishop’s, it’s the professors who teach your classes, not teaching assistants. This proximity shapes everything that follows. 

Your honours thesis supervisor may hold a Canada Research Chair. The professor who inspires you might be a 3M Teaching Fellow. The mentor who writes your reference letter could be a member of the Royal Society of Canada. At Bishop’s, you’ll learn directly from accomplished scholars, researchers and educators whose work is recognized nationally and internationally. 

#3 in Canada for faculty awards among primarily undergraduate universities. 
Maclean’s, 2026

Learn Across Disciplines

The world’s challenges rarely fit within a single field of study. 

Many students combine majors and minors, explore courses outside their primary area of study and build degrees that connect multiple interests. A future teacher may study psychology. A biology student may pursue a minor in music. A business student might explore environmental issues. 

Studying across disciplines helps you see problems from different perspectives, develop complementary skills and make unexpected connections between ideas. It broadens your understanding of the world and prepares you to navigate challenges that rarely fit within a single field of study.

Small Classes. Meaningful Connections.

 At Bishop’s, every voice shapes the conversation. Your question becomes the conversation. 

Classes are built around discussion, debate and collaboration. Through active learning and problem-solving, you’ll learn how to articulate ideas clearly, navigate complexity and engage with different perspectives. These are the skills employers, graduate schools and communities value most. 

Small classes, especially after your first year, make it easier to build meaningful relationships with professors and classmates. Questions lead to conversations. Conversations lead to mentorship. Mentorship often leads to research opportunities, internships, references, graduate studies and careers.

Explore Our Faculties and Schools

Each faculty and school offers distinct areas of study while sharing the same commitment to personalized learning, close faculty relationships and academic excellence.

Learn Alongside People from Around the World

Your classmates become part of your education. As an English-language university in Quebec, Bishop’s brings together students from different cultures, backgrounds and perspectives. 

Different perspectives don’t just enrich campus life. They enrich classroom discussions, collaborative projects and the way you understand the world around you. 

Learning happens through discussion, collaboration and exposure to ideas that challenge assumptions and broaden your understanding of the world.

Where Will Your Degree Take You? 

Every program at Bishop’s is built on the same foundation: professors who teach, small classes, meaningful connections and the freedom to explore new perspectives.