Moncton - Education

Education

Separate Anglophone and Francophone school boards administer greater Moncton's 34 public primary and secondary schools. District 1 is Francophone and administers nine schools in the Moncton area. District 2 is Anglophone and administers 25 schools in Greater Moncton. There are four Anglophone high schools in the metro Moncton area; Moncton High School, Harrison Trimble High School, Bernice MacNaughton High School and Riverview High School. The area's Francophone high schools are École Mathieu-Martin and École L'Odyssée.

Four universities have campuses in the greater Moncton region.

• The Université de Moncton is a publicly funded provincial comprehensive university and is the largest French-language university in Canada outside of Quebec. The Moncton campus enrolls over 4000 students and offers a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate degree programs, including a School of Law as well as a number of health sciences disciplines including an MD degree program (offered in conjunction with the Universite de Sherbrooke).
• Crandall University (formerly Atlantic Baptist University) is a private undergraduate liberal arts university affiliated with the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches that enrolls about 800 students. It offers degrees in arts, science, education, business, and religious studies. Crandall is currently undergoing a $24 million expansion to the campus beginning in 2009, which will see three new buildings constructed and will allow enrollment to increase to 1200 students.
• The University of New Brunswick (Moncton) is a small satellite health sciences campus located at the Moncton Hospital that offers degrees in nursing and medical X-ray technology to over 300 students.
• Mount Allison University is a publicly funded principally undergraduate liberal arts university, currently ranked by MacLean's magazine as Canada's top undergraduate university. Mount Allison University is located about a half hour from downtown Moncton in nearby Sackville. Mount Allison enrolls nearly 2500 students and offers degrees in arts, fine arts, music, commerce and science (including masters degrees in biology and chemistry). Mount Allison also provides first year and extension university courses in Moncton and has developed a formal affiliation with the Moncton Flight College to allow for a bachelors degree in aviation.

Moncton is also home to two campusses of the New Brunswick Community College system.

• The English-language New Brunswick Community College - Moncton is the largest campus in the NBCC system with an enrollment of over 1200. It provides training in over 30 different trades and technology disciplines. A major $20 million expansion/refurbishment of the campus is underway which will allow enrollment to increase by an additional 400.
• The French-language Collège Communautaire du Nouveau Brunswick - Dieppe also provides training in the trades and technology sectors.

Moncton also has six private vocational schools that offer practical training in a variety of fields.

• The Atlantic Business College offers a variety of business, paramedical and paralegal programs.
• The Atlantic Paramedic Academy, operated by Medavie EMS is a Canadian Medical Association accredited school providing training in Primary and Advanced Care Paramedicine. It is also home to the Advanced Emergent Care (AEC) program of the Department of National Defence (Canada).
• Eastern College (formerly known as CompuCollege) has a campus in Moncton. Operating for over 25 years, they offer 40 different programs at seven different campuses in Atlantic Canada. Programs are offered in the areas of Business and Administration, Art and Design, Health Care, Social Sciences & Justice, Tourism & Hospitality, and Trades.
• Moncton Flight College is one of Canada's oldest, largest, and most prestigious flight schools.
• McKenzie College is a visual arts institution specializing in graphic design, digital media and animation.
• Oulton College, New Brunswick's oldest private college, provides training in a variety of business, paramedical, dental sciences, pharmacy, veterinary, youth care and paralegal programs.