page_title: Memorial University of Newfoundland
section_title: Expansion
hierarchical_section_title: Memorial University of Newfoundland / History / Expansion
caption_attribution_description: English: The Bruneau Centre at MUN on March 31st, 2019. Taken during filming of Rex and Hudson.
context_page_description: Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN, is a public university based in St. John's, with four satellite campuses.
  Memorial University offers certificate, diploma, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate programmes, as well as online courses and degrees. Memorial's five campuses include St. John's, Corner Brook, and Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom.
  Founded in September 1925 as a living memorial to Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans who died in the First World War, Memorial is one of the largest universities in Atlantic Canada, and Newfoundland and Labrador's only university. As of 2018, there were a reported 1,330 faculty and 2,474 staff, supporting 18,000 students from nearly 100 countries.
context_section_description: In 1961, enrolment having increased to 1400, Memorial moved from Parade Street to its present location on Elizabeth Avenue (Main Campus).
  On 8 March 1965, the government of Newfoundland announced free tuition for first year students enrolled at Memorial University in St. John's.
  The Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland was established in 1967, and the first students were admitted in 1969. It admits approximately 80 students into the M.D. programme each year, and also offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes.
  Memorial maintains a campus in Harlow, England which opened to students in 1969. This campus has been a popular location for internships in Education, and now offers credit courses, work terms, and internships in a number of areas. The campus accommodates approximately 50 students.
  Memorial established the Institut Frecker in St. Pierre in 1973, to offer one-semester French immersion programmes. It was housed in a building provided by the archdiocese of St. Pierre until 2000. Now known as the Programme Frecker, it is currently run from the FrancoForum, a language teaching facility owned by the government of St. Pierre. The programme is partly supported by the governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador.
  In September 1975 a campus was opened in Corner Brook; it was first renamed Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 1979 and renamed again in 2010 as Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland.  Currently 1300 students attend Grenfell, which offers full degree programmes in several disciplines, including Fine Arts, and partial programmes, which can be completed at the main campus, in many other subjects.
  In 1977, the Memorial University of Newfoundland Educational Television Centre implemented the Telemedicine project.
  In 1992, the Institute of Fisheries and Marine Technology in St. John's became affiliated with Memorial University as the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland.  Today it is named the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland. It offers both degree and non-degree programmes.
caption: The Bruneau Centre (taken during filming of Hudson & Rex)
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