MT ALLISON UNIVERSITY

Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts college located in Sackville, New Brunswick. It has been ranked the top undergraduate university in the country 21 times in the past 29 years by Maclean’s magazine, a record unmatched by any other university. With a 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio, the average first-year class size is 60 and upper-year classes average 14 students.

Mount Allison University was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccalaureate to a woman (Grace Annie Lockhart, B.Sc., 1875). Mount Allison graduates have been awarded a total of 55 Rhodes Scholarships, American chemist James B. Sumner, who later won Nobel Prize in Chemistry, used to work at Mount Allison as a teaching fellow. Mount Allison also has one of the largest endowments per student in Canada.

Mount Allison University is a secular (but United Church-affiliated) primarily undergraduate liberal arts university, established at Sackville, New Brunswick on January 19, 1843. The university was named after Charles Frederick Allison, in honour of his gift of land and money. Its origins were steeped in the Methodist faith and it was designed to prepare men for the ministry and to supply education for lay members. The university was chartered on April 14, 1849.

In June 1839, Charles Allison was encouraged by Wesleyan Methodist Minister Rev. John Bass Strong that a school of elementary and higher learning be built. Allison offered to purchase a site in Sackville to erect a suitable building for an academy and to contribute operating funds of £100 a year for 10 years. This offer was accepted and the Wesleyan Academy for boys subsequently opened in 1843.

Faculties, departments, and programs

• Faculty of Arts (BA, BMus, BFA)
  • Classics
  • English
  • Fine Arts
  • History
  • Modern Languages & Literatures
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Religious Studies
  • American Studies
  • Canadian Studies
  • Drama
• Faculty of Social Sciences (BA, BComm)
  • Anthropology
  • Commerce
  • Economics
  • Geography & Environment
  • Politics & International Relations
  • Sociology
  • Environmental Studies
  • PPE (Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics)
• Faculty of Science (BSc, MSc)
  • Biology
  • Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Mathematics & Computer Science
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • Aviation (in conjunction with Moncton Flight College)