Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary's University is a public university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was founded in 1802 as Saint Mary's College, a Roman Catholic college, and is among the oldest English-language universities in Canada; it now operates as a public institution. The campus occupies a compact site in Halifax's south end.

Faculties of Arts, Science, and Graduate Studies and Research sit alongside the Sobey School of Business. Graduate strength is associated with business administration, astronomy and astrophysics, including the Institute for Computational Astrophysics and the Burke-Gaffney Observatory, and with international development studies. Those institutes and the observatory are the research sites most used by science graduate students.

Enrollment is about 6,000 to 7,000 students, with a high share of international students relative to many Canadian campuses and a few hundred in graduate programs. Faculty number a few hundred. Alumni include business and public-service graduates in Atlantic Canada; the Sobey name on the business school refers to the Sobeys grocery family.

Graduate study is mainly master's work in business, science, and the social sciences, with thesis and course-based options. Supervision is departmental. The calendar is a semester year. Students live in south-end Halifax, a walkable port city, with the campus close to residential neighborhoods and the harbor.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Saint Mary's University lists 3 graduate programs across 3 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in data science & business analytics, finance & financial economics and operations research & management science.