Saint Mary’s University
Saint Mary’s University
Saint Mary’s University is located in the city of Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia. Vibrant and full of private companies, this large city is extremely important for the economy of the whole Atlantic Canada. The province of Nova Scotia itself is the second smallest province in the whole country, but at the same time, surprisingly, also the second most populated one. Despite its small size, it is a home for one of the leading universities of the country.
Programs
Saint Mary’s University offers a large variety of programs, which extend from the undergraduate to PhD and Master levels.
Let’s begin with the description of undergraduate programs of Saint Mary’s University. This university is ready to offer the Arts Programs, Business programs and the Science ones.
As for the Arts Program, here you may study anthropology, geography, history, English, Spanish and Latin, Political, Religious and Irish studies, Mathematics, Linguistics, Intercultural studies and many others.
For instance, in case you’re into Asia, love its culture, but have only shallow knowledge of it, but eager to get to know it more deeply than the program of Asian Studies must be a great choice for you. During the studies you’ll obtain profound knowledge of such countries as China, Japan, Korea, India and Vietnam. Its history, geography, anthropology, cultural characteristics and even their cinematography. After graduation you have an opportunity to become a journalist, writing columns specializing on Asian countries; a teacher of the history and culture of Asian countries; a foreign policy analyst and even intelligence officer.
Another fantastic undergraduate program offered by Saint Mary’s University is Criminology. Imagine how fascinating it is to become a police or immigration officer, a lawyer or do social work? Analyzing crimes, restoring justice and peace, work in the penitentiary establishments - all these and many more opportunities are awaiting for a student, after graduating from the Saint Mary’s University, who decided to undertake a program of Criminology.
This program is closely related to the previous one as it also aims at restoring justice. The program of Social Justice and Community studies is all about studying laws, equality, citizenship status, social organization of different societies and even gender problems. The program provides intersectional knowledge of many different fields so that after graduation a student becomes a journalist, lawyer, social worker, education, politician or even work in the government. You may continue to study all the social problems on the higher levels, doing Master’s and even PhD, for example in Saint Mary’s University or in the Lakehead University in Ontario on the program of Social Studies.
If you’re one of the people who are very empathetic towards others, know how to listen and support and understand humans’ feelings, so you may apply for the undergraduate program of Psychology. Saint Mary’s University offers to choose this major through the Bachelor’s in Arts or Bachelor’s of Science. The difference between them is in the electives and other academic courses students are to take during their study period. After graduation you’re free to choose among various occupations such as: social worker, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, child development specialist and many others where a profound understanding of human behavior is needed. During the studies you focus on the correlation between psychology and law, human biology, and also about gender roles, forensic psychology and interpersonal relationships.
Saint Mary’s University offers a large variety of business programs including accounting, marketing, finance, economics, business management and entrepreneurship.
The ones who aspire to become advertising specialists choose studying the program of Marketing in Saint Mary’s University. Here students learn about sales, management and how to create successful advertising campaigns and promote business. After studying necessary academic subjects and acquiring the skills of public speaking, critical thinking and learning how to work in a team, which is important for working in the field of marketing, you can work as a product, advertising, sales manager or a market analyst.
Science programs include the following: physics, engineering, computing science, biology, geology, geography and a number of others.
Saint Mary’s University allows a student to study Business Administration and Computing science at the same time. The program lasts for four year, during which you may study how to manage business, internal processes of enterprising, together with computing languages, databases and other peculiarities of information technology. After successful graduation, you have a chance to become a project manager in the field of information technology, IT consultant and a developer or organize your own business in the sphere of computer programming. The students, who chose to study the programs of computing science and business administration, participate in a number of international competitions and exchange programs all around the world.
After completing the undergraduate study, the ones who wish to do more research in a particular field choose to continue their education journey and get their Master’s degrees.
One can obtain a Master’s in International Development Studies due to its high importance nowadays. Globalization demands from the young people today to know everything about the development of all countries, how they function, the international economics and politics. All this can be studied and researched in Saint Mary’s University. Students from different backgrounds can apply for the program, as the study is interdisciplinary. Saint Mary’s University supports the students who wish to participate and conduct the researches in the desired field, advancing the global knowledge of international development studies.
Accommodation
Saint Mary’s University offers its students various accommodation options which suit the best for their personal style of life, as there are three houses of residence.
First, Loyola Residence. It’s a tall building which comprises both: rooms for single living and double rooms. Some of the floors are quiet, some are for women only, some are only for men and living on some floors drinking alcoholic beverages is prohibited. So you may choose the floor and a room which will be more comfortable for you to live in. Here a double room would cost in total of around $12000 for an academic year and a thousand more for living in a single room.
Another residence has only four floors, each floor has three suites and each suite has two double rooms and two single rooms inside them. Each floor has a special lounge room for students to communicate with each other, play board games or do their studies. Living in a double room with a shared bath and kitchen costs for $7175 and single room for approximately $13800 depending on what kind of meal plan you’re going to choose.
And the third seventeen floored residence is constructed in the apartment style. On each floor students have only six apartments which have either two double rooms inside or three single rooms. Students who live in one apartment share a living room, a lavatory and a kitchen. Living in such an apartment allows students to become very responsible and collaborative, as they learn how to share living space with other people and keep it clean and safe. Living in the apartment style residence in a single room costs from $8700 to $14000, the price varies according to the meal plan you want to purchase.
Students who wish to live in the first two dormitories are obliged to buy a meal plan, which allows them to visit a dining room and have breakfast, lunch or dinner whenever they want. Meal plans free students of the burden of cooking and buying groceries. The students who live in the apartment-style residence don’t need to purchase the meal plan, as they have a kitchen inside their apartments.
International Students
For now international students can apply for Saint Mary’s University without providing the results of such exams as GCSE, GCE etc. because of the epidemiological situation in the world. Another language and academic requirements, which you need to meet in order to be considered eligible for studying in Saint Mary’s University, depend on the country you come from.
International students can work during their university studies in Canada if it’s a part-time job, which takes up no more than twenty hours a week and the studies are full-time. During the breaks, international students are allowed to work for up to forty hours a week.
After graduation from Saint Mary’s University, a former student can obtain a work permit if they meet all the requirements and start to work full-time for a three year period.
English Language Programs
Saint Mary’s University offers international students to learn English before beginning their university studies. For example, an international student may choose to undertake the program of studying Academic English where they will be prepared to participate in the educational process, listening and understanding the lectures and writing papers, using high-level vocabulary. There is another program for the visiting students, who can learn the English language and obtain one or two university credit courses, which allows them to upgrade their English knowledge faster.
Saint Mary’s University also has courses of immersion into the English language which last only for a month, but reside in the memory of international students for a long time.
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