About our students
Number of students enrolled at Dalhousie University: 15,367
Percentage of students who are female: 55.4
Average grade-point average of first-year students: 85.1
Percentage of first-year students with average of 75 per cent or better: 97
Percentage of first-year students who are awarded entrance scholarships: 59
Number of Rhodes Scholars who’ve graduated from Dalhousie: 86
Number of Atlantic Canadian universities who’ve graduated more Rhodes Scholars than Dalhousie: 0
Number of volumes in Dalhousie libraries per student: 149
Percentage of students from outside Nova Scotia: 52.3
Percentage of students from outside Canada: 7.7
Number of countries represented at Dalhousie: more than 100
Number of professors in 1863: 6
Number of professors in 2009: 1,012
Student-faculty ratio: 13.5:1 (lowest in Canada)
Percentage of faculty with a Ph.D. or doctorate: 92
About research at Dalhousie
Number of Canada Research Chairs at Dalhousie, more than any university in the region: 50
Ranking given to Dalhousie among universities outside the United States as a place for academic research by The Scientist magazine in 2007: 1
Number of kilometres that Dalhousie-developed 'lidar' technology traveled through space to reach Mars: approximately 184 million.
Number of continents whose oceans will be monitored by Dalhousie's groundbreaking Ocean Tracking Network project: 7 (yes, that's all of them).
Amount of dollars awarded annually to Dalhousie University in research grants and awards: over $128 million
More about Dalhousie
Number of faculties: 11
Number of degree programs: 180
Number of exchange programs for students: 70 in over 60 countries
Number of student clubs: 225+
Number of student clubs for students who like boats: 4
Number of student clubs for students who like concrete boats: 1
New "boulder problems" added each month to Dalplex's rock climbing wall: 50
Distance in metres to top of rock climbing wall: 5.12
Number of student housing spaces: 2,200 in a variety of residences
Wireless zones on campus: 40+
Size of Dalhousie campus in acres: 79
Year of Dalhousie’s founding: 1818
Number of British pounds given by George Ramsay, ninth Earl of Dalhousie, to establish Dalhousie: 7,000
Estimated value of Ramsay's gift in 2007 Canadian dollars: $914,918.73