Bishop's University (French: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.The founder of the institution was the Anglican Bishop of Quebec, George Mountain, who also served as the first principal of McGill University. It is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in English (the others being McGill University and Concordia University, both in Montreal). It began its foundation by absorbing the Lennoxville Classical School as Bishop's College School in the 1840s. The college was formally founded in 1843 and received a royal charter from Queen Victoria in 1853.
It remains one of Canada's few primarily undergraduate universities, functioning in the way of an American liberal arts college, and is linked with three others in the Maple League. Established in 1843 as Bishop's College, the school used to be affiliated with the University of Oxford in 1853, where many professors at BU were appointed from. The school remained under the Anglican church's direction from its founding until 1947. Since that time, the university has been a non-denominational institution.Bishop's University has graduated fifteen Rhodes Scholars.
Like other liberal arts colleges in North America, it does not participate in rankings which are primarily based on research, such as QS. However, Bishop's ranked number one in Canada for student satisfaction for three continuous years, and ranked 7th in Canadian primarily undergraduate universities by Maclean's magazine.The university shares a campus with its neighbor, Champlain College Lennoxville, an English-language public college.
