Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university located in Sackville, New Brunswick. It has been ranked the top undergraduate university in the country for 18 of the last 25 years by Maclean's magazine. With a 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio, the average first-year class size is 65 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 53 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.
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)
Environmental Science
Cognitive Science

Mount Allison University

65 York Street, Sackville E4L,
New Brunswick CanadaNo Courses, Classes and Workshop added on this Institution.