65 York Street
Sackville, New Brunswick E4L 1E4
Canada

Mount Allison is a primarily undergraduate liberal arts university with a compact scholarly community. Students learn in a nurturing environment, with easy access to professors, mentors and facilities. The university has the largest number of Rhodes Scholars, per capita, in the British Commonwealth, and one of the largest endowments, per capita, among universities in canada.

The school is not just about academic education, however. Mount Allison is committed to the environment, globalization, public service and citizenship, and creativity in the arts and sciences.

The Mount Allison experience integrates an excellent academic program with a series of communities that students establish amongst themselves and with faculty, staff and the local community. This experience helps to prepare students for the larger world endowing them with the capacity to make meaningful contributions to society and the world around them.

Students at Mount Allison enter not only a university but a community and campus rich in history and innovation. In 1875, Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to confer a Bachelor's degree to a woman and helped pave the way for women's access to Canadian universities. Its Owens Art Gallery is Canada's oldest university art gallery and has a permanent collection of more than 3,000 works, including paintings and sketches by the Group of Seven.

Mount Allison has a rich culture, with lectures, a Shakespeare Festival, and other special events year round. MAU is a university experience that enriches the whole student, not only academically, but socially and culturally as well.

Quick Facts

Mount Allison's controlled enrolment limits the student body to approximately 2,250 full-time students.

Student-faculty ratio at Mount Allison is 15:1.

Founded in 1839, Mount Allison has a rich history but has always looked toward the future. It was one of the first universities in the country to introduce a completely wireless campus.

Undergraduate students can choose from five degrees -- Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of fine arts, Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Music. The university also offers some postgraduate degrees in science.

The campus is historically beautiful, with amenities such as Mount Allison's Windsor Theatre, Brunton Auditorium and Convocation Hall -- one of the largest concert halls east of Montreal.

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