Photo: WayeMason · CC BY-SA 3.0Halifax is home to Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University (30,867 students) and Saint Mary's University (7,281 students) are inside Halifax.
What stands out about college in Halifax
Facts about the town and its distance to campus, with figures for each college.
Colleges and universities within 25 km of Halifax
11 within 25 km: 6 universities, 5 colleges and cégeps.
What would you pay?
Tuition in Canada is set province by province, and by each institution within its province’s rules; fees for international students are higher and set apart. Statistics Canada publishes each province’s average fees every year. There is no single price to show here, so this page doesn’t make one up.
Questions about college near Halifax
What colleges are in Halifax?
Dalhousie University (30,867 students); Saint Mary's University (7,281 students); Mount St. Vincent University; University of King's College; Atlantic School of Theology; Halifax Regional Police Training School.
Colleges and universities: Quebec’s ministry lists of colleges and universities (Données Québec, CC BY 4.0); Ontario’s public universities and colleges by campus with their 2024–25 enrolment (Open Government Licence – Ontario), placed with OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors); elsewhere Statistics Canada’s Open Database of Educational Facilities (2019–22); Wikidata (CC0). Straight-line distances from the centre of Halifax. Colleges are described, not graded. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, through each institution’s Wikidata item; author and licence on each.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).