Termed a guarantee programme, the university will offer unemployed students another year of courses, all for free, if they are unable to find employment in their field. The university will pay for any courses undertaken by unemployed graduates.

“The whole idea is to not only help you maintain a successful path in your academics but to expose you and make you marketable, employable,” said Barbara Pollock, Vice President of External Relations at the University.

To qualify for the scheme, students will be expected to maintain a 70% grade average and partake in career counseling to help them get ahead in the job market.

“We’re not guaranteeing a job,” continued Pollock. “What we’re doing is saying that if you aren’t in a meaningful role that you’ve been studying for and aiming for over the last four years, in six months after graduation we will guarantee a year’s worth of honing skills that you may have found that you’re lacking.”

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This year Mount Allison University, located in New Brunswick, Canada again earned the number one position in the Maclean’s magazine annual university rankings and top marks in the Globe and Mail annual Canadian University Report. Over 40,000 student opinions from across Canada are used to cultivate the Report.

Mount Allison is the only Canadian university to place first or second in every MacLean’s magazine university ranking since it began over 18 years ago.

But Mount Allison has more to offer than just excellent academics. The Globe and Mail Candian University Report gave the university an ‘A’ for both campus atmosphere and for recreation and athletics.

Mount Allison students are active in a broad range of extracurricular activities, as well as academically involved. To find out more, visit www.mymta.ca to see Mount Allison from our students’ points of view.