About Graduate Studies
Our history
- UNB is among the oldest public universities in North America and the oldest English-language university in Canada, conceived in 1785.
- The university began to award Master’s degrees in 1830 and Doctoral degrees in 1870.
- Long standing member of the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies (CAGS) www.cags.ca
Our students
- The School of Graduate Studies has over 1,850 full-time and part-time students on its two main campuses in Fredericton and Saint John.
- Our students earn more national graduate research fellowships than any other university in Atlantic Canada.
- UNB’s international students originate from more than 100 countries, contributing to the cultural fabric of our host communities and the entire province.
Our faculties
- UNB offers graduate work and research in 32 different fields.
- There are 14 faculties on the Fredericton and Saint John campuses.
- Fredericton: arts, business administration, computer science, education, engineering, forestry and environmental management, kinesiology, law, nursing, Renaissance College and science.
- Saint John: arts, business, and science, applied science and engineering.
Our research
- UNB receives more than $51 million in annual research funding, through grants and contracts.
- Endowments bring distinction and financial support exclusively to UNB, such as
- the William S. Lewis Doctoral Fellowships ($25,000)
- the David M. Armstrong Doctoral Fellowship ($25,000)
- the Dr. John S. Little International Study Fellowship ($15,000)
- Fifty per cent of research funding is returned to the local economy through salaries and student support.
- UNB’s research capacity supports more than 800 faculty and research staff.
- Close to 80 per cent of university research in New Brunswick happens at UNB.
- UNB has more than 60 research centres, institutes, groups and major projects.
- UNB has 16 Canada Research Chairs.
- UNB's Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development Centre - Students interested in studying in this exciting area will find valuable information on this site. Helpful material is also available for parents, educators, researchers, media and policy influencers. The website provides information on our funded and future studies.
- UNB’s Planetary Space Science Centre is the only NASA-supported planetary imaging facility in Canada.
- The UNB MRI Centre is one of the largest and best-known material science magnetic resonance imaging labs in the world.
- UNB’s Canadian Rivers Institute, the first institute of its kind in the world, is working to make our rivers clean and safe.
- UNB’s Centre for Coastal Studies and Aquaculture does work in Canada, the Caribbean, the UK, the Mediterranean, South America, Australia and Antarctica.
- UNB's Child
- UNB’s Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society is helping the world understand modern-day conflicts. It is one of the few research institutes in Canada and the U.S. studying the role of climate change in current and future conflicts.
- UNB’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering is a world-renowned research facility in biomedical engineering and one of the oldest solely dedicated to this field.
Our achievements
- Google Earth uses technology developed by UNB geodesy and geomatics engineering researchers.
- The research of UNB Saint John professor Karen Kidd was featured as one of the top 100 science stories of 2007 by Discover Magazine.
- UNB Fredericton researcher Kevin Englehart is the recipient of a 2007 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award.
- UNB Saint John professor Anne Compton received the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry in 2005.
For more information on UNB’s research centres and major research projects, visit Vice-President Research.
