Quick Facts
About
The University of New Brunswick
Founded in 1785,
the University of New Brunswick is one of the oldest public
universities in North America. Throughout our long
history, we have influenced the future thousands upon thousands of
young scholars. UNB has shaped the social
and economic landscape of this country - and beyond.
UNB is a respected institution with
accomplished people. We have many of the brightest and best people
in the country right now and we are continuing to attract faculty,
staff and students of this high calibre. UNB is a strong national university with
fully-accredited programs and a strong research base - and these
will continue to remain our priorities.
More About
UNB
50
degree and certificate or diploma programs
2
campuses
9000
full-time students
15:1
student to faculty ratio
12
on-campus residences in Fredericton
$4,770
undergraduate tuition for Canadian residents
100
per cent employment for UNB Forestry
graduates
60 per
cent rate of acceptance of UNB students
into medical schools
73
countries represented by UNB's
International Students
620
full-time faculty members
More
than 8000 (electronic or text) current periodicals in UNB libraries
93 per
cent employment among UNB's 1996
graduates
Guaranteed
entrance scholarship for students with a scholarship average of 80
per cent or better
70
special interest clubs and societies university-wide
8
Varsity Reds teams on the Fredericton campus
8
Varsity Seawolves teams on the Saint John campus
UNB Firsts, Bests, One-Of-A-Kinds
»
UNB is the oldest English language
university in Canada
»
UNB was the first public university in
North America
»
UNB Saint John was the first university
in Canada to introduce an e-business program.
»
UNB Fredericton Faculty of Arts was the
first in Canada to create a major in multimedia studies.
»
UNB Fredericton's Military and Strategic
Studies Program has been Canada's centre of excellence in
military.
»
UNB Renaissance College, offering studies
in leadership, is the only program of its in kind in
Canada
»
UNB Planetary and Space Science Centre is
the only NASA-supported planetary imaging
facility in Canada
»
UNB Canada Rivers Institute is unique in
Canada and one of only a handful of such centres in the
world
»
Students at UNB Fredericton are among the
first in North America to study computer-assisted drug
design.
Did You
Know?
»
Close to 80 per cent of research conducted at New Brunswick
universities takes place at UNB
» 70
per cent of nurses who graduate from UNB
stay and practice in New Brunswick
» 75
per cent of our province's educators graduated from UNB
» 87
per cent of the engineers employed in New Brunswick are
UNB graduates
» 75
per cent of decision-makers in New Brunswick's forestry industry
are UNB graduates
» 42
per cent of the lawyers in the province graduated from UNB
Some
Significant UNB Stats
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UNB Fredericton Engineering Faculty has
been rated among the top 20 per cent in North
America
»
UNB established the first faculty of
computer science in Canada
»
Canadian Business Magazine ranked UNB
Saint John's MBA first in
e-business
»
UNB Fredericton Law Faculty is one of the
Top 5 in Canada
»
UNB science graduates accepted into
medical schools is 10 per cent above the national
average
»
No university in Atlantic Canada has produced more Rhodes Scholars
in the past decade than UNB
»
UNB established the first undergraduate
forestry program in Canada.
»
UNB Fredericton Arts Faculty's creative
writing program is widely known as one of the nation's
best
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