Latin: Universitas Novi Brunsvici[1] | |
Former names | Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1785–1800) College of New Brunswick (1800–1828) King's College (1828–1859) |
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Motto | Sapere aude (Latin) |
Motto in English | Dare to be wise |
Type | Public |
Established | 1785 |
Academic affiliations | CARL, CUSID, CVU, Universities Canada |
Endowment | $238.328 million[2] |
Chancellor | H. Wade MacLauchlan[3] |
President | Paul Mazerolle |
Visitor | Brenda Murphy (as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick) |
Academic staff | 747 FTE |
Students | 10,556 (Fall 2023)[4] |
Undergraduates | 8,460 |
Postgraduates | 2,096 |
Location | , Canada 45°56′44″N 66°38′27″W / 45.94556°N 66.64083°W |
Campus | Urban |
Colours | Red & black |
Nickname | Reds (Fredericton), Seawolves (Saint John) |
Sporting affiliations | U Sports – AUS ACAA |
Website | unb |
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North America.[6] UNB was founded by a group of seven Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution.[7]
UNB has two main campuses: the original campus in Fredericton (UNBF), established in 1785, and a smaller campus in Saint John (UNBSJ), which opened in 1964. The Saint John campus is home to New Brunswick's anglophone medical school, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, an affiliate of Dalhousie University. Additionally, there are two small satellite health sciences campuses situated in Moncton and Bathurst. UNB offers over 75 degrees in fourteen faculties at the undergraduate and graduate levels, with a total student enrolment of 9,725 between the two principal campuses during the 2021–2022 year.[8] UNB was named the most entrepreneurial university in Canada at the 2014 Startup Canada Awards.[9]
The University of New Brunswick has educated numerous Canadian federal cabinet ministers including Sir John Douglas Hazen, William Pugsley and Gerald Merrithew, many Premiers of New Brunswick such as Frank McKenna and Blaine Higgs,[10] three puisne justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, Oswald Smith Crocket, James Wilfred Estey, Gérard La Forest,[11] as well as prominent artists and writers. UNB had ties to the Confederation Poets movement; Bliss Carman and Sir Charles G.D. Roberts were alumni.[12][13]