Located in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, Mount Allison University was founded in 1839 by a local Methodist merchant, Frederic Allison.
Mount Allison University routinely tops the Maclean's Magazine Annual Survey of Canadian Universities in the category for small undergraduate schools. In the first survey, it ranked third over-all, which led to the division of the ranking into categories the next year.
Mount Allison has produced more Rhodes Scholars per capita than any other university in the Commonwealth. The latest, nominated in 2003, was the school's 45th.
The school's team name is the Mounties. The team struggles to succeed.
The university is divided into residences which divide the community into social groups:
- Bigelow House
- Bennett House
- Trueman House
- Hunton House
- Thornton House
- Edwards House
- Windsor Hall
- Harper Hall
- (Campbell) (under construction)
as well as various satellite residences. |
