Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, is an undergraduate-focused liberal arts institution founded in 1839, with roughly two thousand students. It has ranked at or near the top of the Maclean's primarily undergraduate category repeatedly over several decades, which is a more meaningful distinction than a position in a general ranking, because it compares like with like: institutions that teach undergraduates rather than universities whose standing rests on research output. For an international student that matters. At a research university a first-year course may be taught by a doctoral student to several hundred people. Here it is taught by faculty to a seminar. Sackville is a very small town near the Nova Scotia border. Living costs are among the lowest in Canada and the international community is small.