QS ranking profile
University of New Brunswick
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #622
- Up 59 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #681
- Overall score
- 27.6
Explore opportunities at University of New Brunswick
Browse active research positions, doctoral fellowships, and university funding calls indexed from official faculties and verified sources.
QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Medium
- About 5,000 to 12,000 students
- Subject range
- Comprehensive
- Teaches across all main faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Americas
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About University of New Brunswick
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
The University of New Brunswick connects two campuses with a wide faculty map
The University of New Brunswick directory presents academic work across Fredericton and Saint John. It lists arts, business, computer science, education, engineering, forestry and environmental management, kinesiology, law, nursing and health sciences, and science. Departments include anthropology, economics, English, history, politics, psychology, sociology, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical and computer engineering, geodesy and geomatics, mechanical engineering, biology, chemistry, Earth sciences, mathematics and statistics, and physics. This two-campus map helps an applicant locate a discipline, but the programme and department pages still define the route for a particular question.
UNB's public programme catalogue includes undergraduate and graduate options as well as interdisciplinary routes. Examples include applied coastal ecology, applied physics, biology, biology-chemistry, biology-psychology, environmental engineering, neuroscience, communication studies, international development studies, and media arts and cultures. These examples show how the same subject can be organised through different faculties or campuses. A shortlist should therefore record the exact programme, location, and academic unit rather than relying on a broad subject name.
UNB research spans environment, computing, health, and engineering
The university's research pages identify activity in energy management, innovation and entrepreneurship, big data and advanced computing, manufacturing and materials processing, cybersecurity, health, and sustainability. The Faculty of Science research directory also describes the Applied Statistics Centre and the Canadian Rivers Institute. In biology, public pages refer to ecosystems, aquatic and terrestrial biology, theoretical biology, cell and molecular biology, habitat monitoring, and work with organisms such as zebrafish, algae, plants, and insects. These details provide concrete leads for different scientific questions.
Research infrastructure can have more than one role. An applied statistics centre may support survey or experiment design, while a rivers institute may connect aquatic science with field monitoring and environmental data. Engineering work may use materials, energy, geodesy, or computer systems. A health project may involve rehabilitation, nursing, psychology, or biomedical research. The appropriate method, facility, and supervisor must be traced to the programme or research group that names them directly.
A focused way to compare a University of New Brunswick option
Begin with the object, population, or system you want to study and state how you would produce evidence. For environmental work, name the ecosystem, monitoring method, or spatial problem. For engineering or computer science, record the design, model, software, or experiment. For arts and social sciences, identify the text, community, institution, or policy setting. Then compare the relevant Fredericton or Saint John programme with the department, research centre, and supervisor information that is currently available.
The data panel offers a university-wide reference point for New Brunswick and does not assess one course, faculty, laboratory, or supervisor. In your working record, enter the programme title, campus, faculty or department, research question, method, language context, and a live UNB page describing the route. Keep research revenue, patents, partnerships, or institutional counts separate from personal fit. A clear entry should also state a concrete mismatch, such as a missing method, facility, campus setting, or project format. This level of detail is useful when Fredericton and Saint John offer related subjects with different facilities, communities, or delivery arrangements. It also makes later comparisons easier. That makes the campus choice clearer for later comparison.