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New Brunswick is one of Canada's 3 Maritime Provinces and the only official bilingual province (French and English) in the country. The capital is Fredericton. The estimated population is about 749,168of which the majority is English speaking but with a substantial (35%) French-speaking minority of mostly Acadian origin.
New Brunswick has a comprehensive parallel Anglophone and francophone public school system serving from kindergarten to grade 12. There are also several secular or religious private schools in the province, such as the university preparatory Rothesay Nether wood School.
The New Brunswick Community College system has campuses in all regions of province. This comprehensive trade school system offers roughly parallel programs in both official languages at either francophone or anglophone campuses. Each campus however, tends to have areas of concentration to allow for specialization. The colleges usually have diverse programs in keeping with the changing pattern of today's education.
There are a number of private colleges for specialized training in the province, such as the Moncton Flight College; one of the top pilot training academies in Canada.
There are four publicly funded secular universities and three private universities with religious affiliations in the province.
These are:
- University of New Brunswick (Fredericton and Saint John), public, anglophone
- St Thomas University, (Fredericton), public, anglophone
- Mt. Allison University, (Sackville), public, anglophone
- Universite de Moncton (Moncton, Shippagan and Edmunston), public, francophone
- Atlantic Baptist University, (Moncton), private, anglophone
- St. Stephen's University, (Saint Stephen), private, anglophone
- Bethany Bible College, (Sussex), private, anglophone
Almost all the universities have residential facilities for the students, on-campus or off-campus or both.
The universities provide well-stocked library for the benefit of the students.
The safe and friendly environment of each of the universities attracts the new students every year.
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