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Mount Allison University is located in Sackville, a small town in southeastern New Brunswick. With its combination of historical and modern facilities and its well-kept grounds, the campus is considered among the most beautiful in Canada.
Mount Allison is primarily an undergraduate liberal arts university with a controlled enrolment of approximately 2,250 full-time students. It is a compact scholarly community designed to foster excellence in teaching, mentoring and student-centred research in small classes. The student-faculty ratio is about 18 to 1.
Mount Allison was the first university in Canada to link most of its residence students to a campus-wide computer information network.
Mount Allison is noted for having awarded the first baccalaureate to a woman in the British Empire, Grace Annie Lockhart, in 1875. The university also prides itself on the 45 graduates who have become Rhodes scholars, more per capita than any other university in the Commonwealth.
The campus includes facilities to support a wide-ranging extracurricular program in areas such as student government and athletics. In total, there are about 80 clubs and societies. The university also has a strong co-curricular program in music and drama.
History
Year of foundation: 1839
Former names of the institution: Wesleyan Academy (1839-1862); Mount Allison Wesleyan College (1862-1886); University of Mount Allison College (1886-1913).
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Academic and campus services
Art gallery, bookstore, chapel, chaplaincy, concert hall, innovative leadership program, international student advisers, Meighen Centre (which assists students with a learning disability), music hall, peer counselling services, radio station, sexual harassment adviser, student newspaper, student services, Study Skills program, theatre, University Career Resource Centre, Writing Resource centre.
First-year student programs
First-year academic advisers, orientation programs, study skills program, Writing Resource Centre, peer counselling services, sexual harassment adviser, career resource centre, special orientation for international students, mature students and transfer students, Meighen Centre (which assists students with a learning disability).
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