The University of New Brunswick (UNB)
UNB offers a university environment with a window on two dynamic cities - Fredericton and Saint John. Having two main campuses allows flexibility of place and field of study. Each campus has its individual characteristics, but admission and academic standards, degree programs and financial aid remain fully integrated. At UNB, a university education goes well beyond the classroom. The academic blends with the social, the recreational and the cultural.
UNB Fredericton
Although the Fredericton campus is home to nearly 8,000 full-time students, it's not so big that you get lost in the crowd. In fact, we maintain an average student/faculty ratio of 15 to one. We are a mid-sized campus with a small town feeling of community and camaraderie. At UNBF you can make life-long friendships and plunge into the spirit of an adventure only a university experience can give.
Campus life is always teeming with action. And right outside our gates the lively city of Fredericton offers everything from professional theatre to night clubs to the popular Saturday morning Farmers' Market. Whether you choose residence life or off-campus housing, UNB will become your home away from home.
At UNB Fredericton you can choose from an extensive slate of bachelor's degrees in Arts, Science and Business along with specialty degrees such as Forestry, Computer Science, Kinesiology, Nursing and Education. Our Faculty of Engineering is internationally recognized and we boast a prestigious Law School. A full slate of Master's and Doctoral degrees and diplomas are available through the UNB School of Graduate Studies.
In addition to the main campus, UNB offers programs in other areas of New Brunswick and Canada as well as around the world!
UNB: Quick Facts
» 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
» $4265 undergraduate tuition for Canadian residents
» 100% employment for UNB Forestry graduates
» 60% 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%
or better
» 70 special interest clubs and societies university-wide
» 12 Varsity Reds teams on the Fredericton campus
» 8 Varsity Seawolves teams on the Saint John campus
UNB first, 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, its bachelor of business administration in electronic commerce.
» 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 and defence relations history for over 30
years.
» 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 undergraduate in North America
to study computer-assisted drug design.
Did you know?
» Close to 80% of research conducted at New Brunswick
universities takes place at UNB
» 70% of nurses who graduate from UNB stay and practice in New Brunswick
» 75% of our province's educators graduated from UNB
» 87% of the engineers employed in New Brunswick are UNB graduates
» 75% of decision-makers in New Brunswick's forestry industry are UNB graduates
» 42% of the lawyers in the province graduated from UNB
Some Significant UNB Stats
» 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 and developed
the first software engineering degree program in Atlantic 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
» The number of UNB science graduates accepted into medical schools is 10% 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. Its forest
engineering program is the only accredited program of its kind in Canada
» UNB Fredericton Arts Faculty's creative writing program is widely known as one
of the nation's best
Click on Campus Map1 to view the map of UNB, Fredericton in a PDF format. Another map of the campus; Campus Map2.
All the information above were obtained from UNB's web site. More can be found in the official website of the University of New Brunswick