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St. Francis Xavier University offers what so many of Canada s top students are
seeking: a high quality education, focused principally on the undergraduate, in
a vibrant residential setting. Recognized as one of the finest schools in
Canada, StFX is meeting the needs of today s undergraduates through outstanding
teaching, exceptional hands-on research experiences, the very best in a
residential community, and unique opportunities to make a contribution to
communities at home and abroad. This is the StFX way.
It all starts here
with Canada's Premier Undergraduate Experience:
- Highest Student
Satisfaction in Canada;95% of students said they would choose to return to StFX;
96% rated their overall educational experience a positive one; 97% reported that
professors are accessible outside the classroom (Maclean's, February 2009)
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Ranked number one in Canada no fewer than 5 times by Maclean's
- Received A
ratings in Globe and Mail annual University Report Card for student
satisfaction, quality of education and student/faculty interaction (2008 and
2009)
- Highest Student Engagement in Canada (set national record in 2009 for
student voter turnout - 60.4%)
- Approx. 90% full-time faculty, which means
unparalleled access to faculty from day one to graduation
- Home to seven
Canada Research Chairs
- Over $175 million in infrastructure investment since
1996
Of course, to us, the most important numbers are the small ones, not
the big. Because our overall student population and individual class sizes are
kept modest, our students have unparalleled opportunities for learning,
interaction with faculty, hands-on research experience, exchange programs, and,
integral to the StFX mission, community service. That mixture acting small but
thinking big is one of the key reasons we ve turned out Rhodes scholars,
world-renowned scientists, Supreme Court justices, religious leaders, business
pioneers, internationally acclaimed artists, and a Canadian Prime Minister.
People come here to lay the groundwork. They leave pumped about all the amazing
things they can achieve.
History of StFX
In the long history of
StFX, a lot has changed but the important things, the things that make us who
we are, have stayed the same. During the first half of the 19th century, close
to a million famers, labourers and tradesmen came from the British Isles to the
shores of Nova Scotia to seek a better life, joining the Acadians and Aboriginal
peoples already settled there. StFX was born to serve this mixed bag of people
who had ambition and little else. StFX offered the only university-level
education in the region at that time and, partnered with the Roman Catholic
diocese, maintained strict academic standards in order to give those who wanted
it the best education possible.
Over the course of the following decades
StFX flourished, expanding its curriculum and bringing the mission of service
across Canada and abroad. You might say the school was finding its identity. In
the 1930s, that identity was solidified with The Antigonish Movement a program
whose mandate aligned perfectly with StFX s original principles of community
outreach and service to society. In 1959, the Coady International Institute was
formed, allowing those principles to be taken to all corners of the
globe.
StFX has since grown into a renowned institution that works hard
to maintain the qualities it was founded on. We ve seen numerous changes
changes in faculty, changes in the student body, changes in our academic
programs. But, while most of Canada's smaller universities have either abandoned
their roots or consolidated into larger institutions, we ve vigorously
maintained our autonomy, guarded our character, and upheld the same traditions
of freedom and service that inspired the men and women stepping onto the eastern
Nova Scotian shores a century and a half ago. At StFX, we re excited about
where we re headed. But we also like to remember where we came from. |
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