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- 50 degree and certificate or diploma programs
- 9,500 full-time students
- 18:1 student to faculty ratio
- 100 per cent employment for UNB forestry graduates
- 90 countries represented by international students
- More than 8,000 (electronic or text) current periodicals
in UNB libraries
- Guaranteed scholarship for students with scholarship average
of 80 per cent or better
- 70 special interest clubs and societies, university wide
- 8 Varsity Reds teams
- 60 exchange programs worldwide
- Internships/co-op opportunities
- UNBF has the largest residence community in Atlantic Canada
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
- 60 per cent acceptance rate of UNB students into medical
schools
- The faculty of arts was the first in Canada to create
a major in multimedia studies
- The military and strategic studies program has been Canada’s
centre of excellence in military and defence relations history
for over 30 years
- Renaissance College, offering studies in leadership, is
the only program of its kind in Canada
- The Planetary and Space Science Centre is the only NASA-supported
planetary imaging facility in Canada
- Students at UNB Fredericton are among the first undergraduate
in North America to study computer-assisted drug design.
- UNB Institute of Biomedical Engineering is a world leader in the development of prosthetic limbs.
Did You Know?
- Close to 80 per cent of research conducted at New Brunswick
universities takes place at UNB
- 70 per cent of UNB nursing grads 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
- UNB alumni number more than 60,000 across Canada and the
world, with 31,000 in New Brunswick
- In 2004-05, UNBF students raised over $50,000 for food
banks, hospitals, women's shelters, the Canadian Cancer
Society and Child Find, just to name a few.
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
- UNB Fredericton law faculty is one of the Top 5 in Canada
- 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.
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