Mount Allison University
Public institution · New Brunswick
About
Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA), founded in 1839, is a public primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccalaureate to a woman (Grace Annie Lockhart, B.Sc., 1875). It was also the first university in Canada to grant a bachelor of arts to a woman (Harriet Starr Stewart in 1882). Graduates of Mount Allison have been awarded a total of 57 Rhodes Scholarships, the highest per capita of any university in the British Commonwealth. It is ranked the top undergraduate university in Canada for a record 26th time, by Maclean's 2026 Annual University Ranking.
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On the register
- DLI number
- O19273922302
- Type
- Public
- Post-graduation work permit
- Programmes eligible for a post-graduation work permit
- Master's and doctoral degrees
- Offered; no provincial attestation letter needed for these
- Founded
- 1839
- Students
- 72,100
Designated learning institutions list, IRCC, 2 October 2026.