Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University
Latin: Universitatis Montis Allisoniani
MottoLitterae, Religio, Scientia
Motto in English
Writing, Divinity, Knowledge
TypePublic Liberal Arts University
EstablishedJune 1839; 185 years ago (1839-06)
Religious affiliation
United Church of Canada
Academic affiliations
Maple League of Universities, Universities Canada, IAU, ACU, CIS, CBIE, AUS, CUP
Endowment$233 million (2023)[1]
ChancellorLynn Loewen
PresidentDr. Ian Sutherland
Academic staff
129
Students2,412[2]
Undergraduates2,396
Postgraduates16
Location, ,
Canada

45°53′55″N 64°22′25″W / 45.89861°N 64.37361°W / 45.89861; -64.37361
CampusCollege Town, 72 acres (29 ha)
Colours   Garnet & gold
NicknameMounties
Sporting affiliations
U Sports - AUS
CCAA - ACAA
Websitewww.mta.ca
Wesleyan Academy, Mount-Allison, Sackville, New-Brunswick, North America (1852)[3]
Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts

Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839.

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 56 Rhodes Scholarships, the highest per capita of any university in the Commonwealth of Nations.[4]

  1. ^ "Report to donors | Mount Allison".
  2. ^ "2022–2023 Full-Time plus Part-Time Enrolments" (PDF). Association of Atlantic Universities. 2022-10-01. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  3. ^ "Wesleyan Academy, Mount-Allison, Sackville, New-Brunswick, North America" (PDF). The Wesleyan Juvenile Offering: A Miscellany of Missionary Information for Young Persons. IX. Wesleyan Missionary Society: 120. October 1852. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Primarily Undergrad - The winners". Macleans. Retrieved Oct 6, 2022.