Dalhousie University

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Profil

Dalhousie University blends the finest academic traditions with innovative thinking and outstanding educational opportunities. Located on Canada’s east coast – long known for natural beauty and friendly people – Dalhousie attracts students from around the globe.

At the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia – a lively coastal city of 390,000 – for almost 200 years, Dalhousie features an historic, tree-lined urban campus and a rural agricultural campus, located about an hour from the city. Dal combines a welcoming atmosphere with the international prestige of a big-name school. With 12 faculties and more than 4,000 classes in over 180 areas of study, the university’s 18,200 students enjoy a wealth of choice and innovative degree programs.

Dalhousie is known for exceptional academics and is a world leader in oceans studies. Offerings include law, agriculture, business, computer science, medicine, architecture, engineering, arts, and an array of health professions programs. Some programs are unique in Canada – the Environment, Sustainability and Society, and the Corporate Residency MBA, for example. Others are unique in the region, including marine management, costume studies and community design. Atlantic Canada’s only Faculty of Agriculture offers studies in international food business, pre-veterinary medicine and plant sciences.

With one of Canada’s best student-to-faculty ratios, students work closely with professors. Dalhousie’s abundance of programs allows students to explore their interests, while combining areas of studies at almost every level.

Many of Dalhousie’s 2,400 international students study engineering, computer science and management. Graduate students are drawn to its interdisciplinary PhD programs.

Dalhousie is a smaller, research-intensive university, combining the culture of a more intimate undergraduate college with the opportunities of a larger research institution. Dalhousie conducts research in partnership with teaching hospitals, businesses and industry, non-profit agencies and other universities. As Atlantic Canada’s leading research university, Dalhousie attracts more than $149 million in research awards annually.

The Dalhousie-led Ocean Tracking Network received $35 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the largest federal university research award in Atlantic Canadian history. In 2010, Dr. Douglas Wallace received the $10 million Ocean Science and Technology Canada Excellence Research Chair. In 2013, the university will open an Oceans Sciences Building. Dalhousie boasts more Canada Research Chairs – 54 – than any other university in the region. Associated institutes include the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, the Brain Repair Centre, Health Law Institute and the Life Sciences Research Institute.

Number of faculty members: full-time – 867; full-time clinical (dentistry and medicine) – 274; part-time (CUPE and non-CUPE) – 826.

The University of King’s College, adjacent to the Dalhousie campus, is an affiliated institution.

Frais de scolarité

Canadian student fees 2011-12 *
Undergraduate tuition fees: $4,927 - $5,949
Graduate tuition fees: $5,290 - $6,312

International student fees 2011-12 *
Undergraduate tuition fees: 13,941
Graduate tuition fee: $13,833 - $14,304

* Source: Statistics Canada. Fees for general programs in arts and humanities.

Note: In addition to tuition fees, universities generally charge fees for goods and services supplied to students. This includes areas such as student associations, sports and health. These additional fees vary widely per university and per student and can run from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars. Check with the university for details.

Inscriptions

2011 rounded preliminary fall enrolment *
Full-time (undergraduates): 12,210
Full-time (graduates): 3,070
Part-time (undergraduates): 1,270
Part-time (graduates): 710

* Source: Association of Atlantic Universities