Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University (regularly known as Dal) is an open exploration college in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three grounds in Halifax, and a fourth in Bible Hill. Dalhousie offers more than 4,000 courses and 180 degree programs in twelve undergrad, graduate, and expert faculties.The college is an individual from the U15, a gathering of examination concentrated colleges in Canada.

Dalhousie was set up as a nonsectarian school in 1818 by the eponymous Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, George Ramsay, ninth Earl of Dalhousie. The school did not hold its top notch until 1838, until then working sporadically because of monetary troubles. It revived for a third time in 1863 after a rearrangement that conveyed a change of name to "The Governors of Dalhousie College and University". The college formally changed its name to "Dalhousie University" in 1997 through commonplace enactment, the same enactment that combined the organization with the Technical University of Nova Scotia.

The college's prominent graduated class incorporate a Nobel Prize champ, two Canadian Prime Ministers, two Herzberg Prize victors, a NASA space explorer who was the primary American lady to stroll in space, 89 Rhodes Scholars, and a scope of other top government authorities, scholastics, and business pioneers. The college positioned 235th in the 2014 QS World University Rankings,226-250th in the 2014-2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 201–300th in the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Dalhousie is an inside for marine research, and is host to the central command of the Ocean Tracking Network.

The Dalhousie library framework works the biggest library in Atlantic Canada, and holds the biggest gathering of horticultural asset material in the locale. The college works an aggregate of fourteen living arrangements. There are presently two understudy unions that speak to understudy intrigues at the college: the Dalhousie Student Union and the Dalhousie Association for Graduate Students. Dalhousie's varsity groups, the Tigers, contend in the Atlantic University Sport meeting of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Dalhousie's Faculty of Agriculture varsity groups are known as the Dalhousie Rams, and contend in the ACAA and CCAA. Dalhousie is a coeducational college with more than 18,000 understudies and 110,000 graduated class.

Dalhousie was established as the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia George Ramsay, ninth Earl of Dalhousie sought a non-denominational school in Halifax. Financing to a great extent originated from traditions obligations gathered by a past Lieutenant Governor, John Coape Sherbrooke, amid the War of 1812 control of Castine, Maine;[a] Sherbrooke contributed GBP£7,000 as a starting blessing and saved £3,000 for the physical development of the college.The school was built up in 1818, however it vacillated soon after as Ramsay left Halifax to serve as the Governor General of British North America. The school was organized upon the standards of the University of Edinburgh, where addresses were interested in all, paying little mind to religion or nationality. The University of Edinburgh was situated close to Ramsay's home in Scotland.

In 1821 Dalhousie College was authoritatively joined by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly under the 1821 Act of Incorporation. The school did not hold its top of the line until 1838; operation of the school was discontinuous and no degrees were awarded. In 1841 an Act of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly presented college powers on Dalhousie.