Colleges for a student who loves FISH

DadTwoGirls
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 01:34:12 +0000

Dalhousie in Halifax, Nova Scotia has very good programs for many majors that contain the word “marine”. Marine biology is one of them. They also have a combined marine biology / oceanography major, as well as an oceanography major.

If you son wants a smaller school (Dal has about 15,000 undergrads), then both Acadia University and St Francis Xavier also have strong marine biology programs. Both are also in Nova Scotia. I think that marine biology is probably a specialization within a biology major at both.

Canadian universities care a lot more about recent years of high school rather than “several years ago”. Your son’s freshman year grades will not matter at all. If he can pull up his grades for junior year, it will help him quite a bit.

The University of Maine comes to mind as another option.