N.S. The university has been located on its present site since the turn of the century. St. Francis Xavier is located in an area that can be difficult for a mobility impaired person to get around. The campus is divided into two sections, upper and lower campus, with most of the instructional buildings located on upper campus. A good portion of the residences, as well as the main dining hall, is located on lower campus. Upper campus, as the name suggests, is situated on a hill overlooking the town of Antigonish.
Lower campus surrounds the hill below.
For a person with a mobility impairment, transition between the two is not impossible but can be inconvenient depending on where you are and where you want to go. The architecture of St. Francis Xavier ranges from the 1940s to the 1980s. As can be expected, the newer buildings were designed and built in keeping with certain standards. They are accessible, built with the mobility impaired in mind. The majority of the newer buildings are found on Upper Campus.