Memorial University of Newfoundland

Memorial University of Newfoundland, based in St. John's, Canada, opened in 1925 as Memorial University College, named for Newfoundlanders who died in the First World War, and became a university in 1949 when Newfoundland joined Canada. It is the only university in the province. Campuses include the St. John's main site, Grenfell in Corner Brook, the Fisheries and Marine Institute, Labrador, and Harlow in England.

Faculties span arts, science, engineering, business, education, medicine, nursing, and social work. Graduate students use the Marine Institute and the Ocean Sciences Centre at Logy Bay for ocean, fisheries, and naval architecture work, and the Faculty of Medicine for biomedical and community health research. Earth sciences and rural health are further concentrations.

About 19,000 students enroll, including several thousand at master's and doctoral level and an international cohort from many countries. Faculty exceed 1,000 academic staff. Alumni include novelist Wayne Johnston, journalist Rex Murphy, and former premier Danny Williams.

Degrees include research master's, professional master's, and PhDs under faculty supervisors, plus taught programs in business, engineering, and education. The calendar uses two main semesters and an optional spring term. Support often comes from supervisor grants, assistantships, and fellowships. St. John's is a compact Atlantic capital where students live with coastal weather and short trips to harbor and marine labs.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Memorial University of Newfoundland lists 6 graduate programs across 6 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in agriculture, food & forestry, data science & business analytics and earth & environmental sciences.