St. Francis Xavier University is a principally undergrad college situated in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. The college unites 5,100 understudies from crosswise over Canada and around the globe in expressions, science, business and data frameworks. It is an individual from the U4 League, a gathering of principally undergrad colleges in Eastern Canada.
St. Francis Xavier College was established as Arichat College, a Roman Catholic Diocesan instructive organization at Arichat, Nova Scotia, in 1853. Arichat College was moved to its present area in Antigonish, and built up as St. Francis Xavier College in 1855. On May 7, 1866, St. Francis Xavier College was given college status, getting to be St. Francis Xavier University.The University granted its first degrees in 1868.
Maclean's Magazine has positioned St. Francis Xavier as the top "Fundamentally Undergraduate" college in Canada for five back to back years (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006). The college has additionally positioned first in graduated class support for the period 2001–06. In 2007, Maclean's changed the criteria of the "Principally Undergraduate", bringing about St. Francis Xavier putting third in the classification. In mid 2009, Maclean's accounted for that St. Francis Xavier understudies positioned first in coming back to their present organization among different classificatio