The Presbyterian College has its life and programming today only through partnerships—with congregations, other colleges, community organizations, and denominational bodies. We are grateful for the way that our life is enriched through these ongoing relationships.
The Presbyterian College is a college constituted and supported by The Presbyterian Church in Canada, and we are immensely grateful for our heritage in this tradition. We are also grateful to Presbyterians Sharing, which provides significant funding to the college annually. As noted elsewhere on this site, our Board of Governors is also appointed annually by the General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, and reports to the General Assembly.
Since its origins in 1865, The Presbyterian College has had a close relationship with McGill University. Most recently, our partnership with McGill is by way of formal agreements between McGill and the theological colleges of the Montreal School of Theology—agreements which date to 1948, 1969, and 2015 respectively. The most recent affiliation agreement of 2015 confirmed these partnerships for an additional 25-year period.
Our core English-language programs are offered in affiliation with the Montreal Diocesan Theological College with whom we share in the Montreal School of Theology. The Diocesan College (known as Dio) is an educational institution of the Anglican tradition—Dio also offers a United Church Studies program in affiliation with the United Church of Canada. The Montreal School of Theology, we may say, is the framework within which the three theological schools collaborate and offer the Master of Divinity program and the Diploma in Ministry.
