page_title: New Brunswick
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: New Brunswick / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: UNB Old Arts Building on the Fredericton campus.
context_page_description: New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. According to the Constitution of Canada, New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two-thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and one-third francophones. One-third of the population describes themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.
  Unlike the other Maritime provinces, New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands and much of the land is further from the coast, giving it a harsher climate. New Brunswick is 83% forested and less densely populated than the rest of the Maritimes.
  Being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled by Europeans. In 1784, after an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War settled in the area, the province was founded on territory from the partition of Nova Scotia. In 1785 Saint John became the first incorporated city in what is now Canada.
context_section_description: Public education elementary and secondary education in the province is administered by the provincial Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. New Brunswick has a parallel system of Anglophone and Francophone public schools.
  The province also operates five public post-secondary institutions, including a college and four universities. Four public universities operate campuses in New Brunswick, including the oldest English-language university in the country, the University of New Brunswick. The other universities in the province include Mount Allison University, St. Thomas University, and the Université de Moncton. All four universities offer undergraduate, and postgraduate education. Additionally, the Université de Moncton, and the University of New Brunswick also offer professional education. Medical education programs have also been established at both the Université de Moncton and at UNBSJ in Saint John (affiliated with Université de Sherbrooke and Dalhousie University respectively).
  Public colleges in the province are managed as a part of the New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) system. In addition to public institutions, the province is also home to several private vocational schools, such as the Moncton Flight College; and universities, the largest being Crandall University.
caption: Sir Howard Douglas Hall at the University of New Brunswick is the oldest university building still in use in Canada.
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