Canadian University Facts
1. PEI's Holland College is named after Samuel Holland, an 18th century surveyor who began his work for the British government on the eastern seaboard of North America in 1764.
2. Based in St. John's, Newfoundland, College of the North Atlantic also has an international campus in the Middle East state of Qatar.
3. University of New Brunswick is Canada's oldest English-speaking university, founded in 1785.
4. Mount Allison graduates have been awarded a total of 47 Rhodes Scholarships, more than any other liberal arts university in North America.
5. The Dalhousie Gazette was founded in 1868 and is the oldest student newspaper in Canada.
6. At 60%, Nova Scotia has the highest rate in Canada of a working population with post-secondary education and is known as Canada's Education Province.
7. Average undergraduate tuition for Newfoundland and Labrador universities is $2,600 annually, the second lowest in Canada, having dropped 22.3% in the last five years.
8. Nova Scotia Agricultural College funds and executes international development projects in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia and Ghana.
9. Memorial University of Newfoundland employs 2,000 students in part-time jobs.
10. New Brunswick Community College's College of Craft & Design is the only college in Canada to offer exclusive post-secondary programming in fine crafts and applied design.
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