University of New Brunswick - Fredericton:
Established: 1785 (Originally called the “College of New Brunswick” before changing its name to “King’s College” in 1828 and then being renamed the “University of New Brunswick” in 1859). Number of Students
About 8,000 Programs
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) at Fredericton has over 80 undergraduate degree opportunities in 11 faculties with options for concurrent and interdisciplinary programs, which includes the “Leonardo” degree through which students earn a combined degree in the Arts and Sciences. The University contains the only fully recognized program in forest engineering in Canada and, for more than 30 years, UNB’s offerings in military and strategic history have been considered to be the nation’s best in the field. The University also offers over 24 undergraduate certificates in the areas of Business Management and Marketing, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Engineering Technology, Languages and Literatures, Health, Mathematics, and Public Administration. Among the University’s graduate opportunities are over 35 master’s and 20 doctorate degrees in over 29 areas of study and 2 certificates in Land Use Planning, Management, and Development and Surveying Engineering. The University of New Brunswick also has a unique distance education opportunity. As part of the Canadian Virtual University-Universite virtuelle canadienne (CVU), a partnership between various Canadian universities who have pooled their resources and academic options in order to expand the choices students have in their pursuit of their education, students may take University of New Brunswick courses or courses from any university in the CVU and apply credit earned towards their respective University of New Brunswick degrees. Currently, over 2,000 courses are offered through this option delivered via distance education, usually either by correspondence or the Internet. Students who take courses at other universities through the CVU pay only the tuition and fees of the university at which they are registered. Interesting Facts
The University of New Brunswick at Fredericton is nationally best known for its innovative forestry and environmental management programs and research. The University was the first to develop an undergraduate degree program in forestry in the nation and currently has Canada’s only accredited program in forest engineering. The University has been branching out its academic and research activities to include space exploration and is now home to Canada’s only NASA-supported facility for planetary imaging known as the 'Planetary and Space Science Centre.' Having been an integral part of NASA’s robotic missions to Mars, which began in the late 1990s, the University of New Brunswick is now studying the effects that Mar’s climate has on humans in the hopes of discovering a way in which a manned-mission to the planet is possible. The University has been responsible for more Rhode Scholars than any other post-secondary institution in the Maritimes in the past 10 years and its Faculty of Law is considered to be among the elite 5 in the nation. Additionally, the university’s graduates in science have about a 10% higher rate of acceptance into medical schools than those from other universities in Canada… |
