The University of King's College, established in 1789, is Canada's oldest chartered university and the first English-speaking university in the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom. Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, King's is renowned for its interdisciplinary programs in the humanities and journalism.
| Acronym | UKC |
| Nickname | Blue Devils |
| Motto / Slogan | For God, Law, King, People |
| Colour | white, blue, dark green and gold. |
| Mascot | Mariner the Sailor |
| Founded | 1789 |
| Location | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Address | University of King's College 6350 Coburg Rd, Halifax, NS B3H 1Z9 |
King's College is dedicated to providing a transformative education rooted in the liberal arts, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and a commitment to the common good.
To cultivate a vibrant academic community that encourages intellectual exploration, interdisciplinary learning, and active engagement with the world.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Academic Services team is here to support you throughout your whole degree at King’s. Whether you are wondering about course registration, degree requirements, program requirements, honours applications or anything else to do with King’s—we are here to help you!
Unlike other institutions, King’s doesn’t separate subjects into disciplines. Instead, your unique interdisciplinary focus looks at the ways these subjects interact and overlap. Here, you get a higher education built on an immersive way of learning. Explore King’s programs.
Grounded in the belief that experiential and work-integrated learning fit naturally with the humanities, the King’s Experiential Learning Program (KELP) helps students reflect on their values, skills, and strengths, understand how these apply to diverse careers, and gain insight into the path that suits them best.
Students, faculty and staff have access to Dalhousie Information Technology Services, and King’s provides some in-house IT support to the community. Residence telephones, on-campus printing and room wifi/ethernet support are provided by residence services.
Admission requirements vary by program. Check the program page for requirements.
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Phone : +1 902-422-1271
Library: King's Library is a welcoming and beautiful study and reading space housing an impressive collection of books, art, and archival materials.
Established by Charles Inglis, the founder of the university, the King's Library had accumulated a significant collection of books by 1802 covering classics, history, foreign languages, literature, natural sciences, and theology. The Library continued to add books throughout the 19th century, including several incunabula (books printed before 1500). It also acquired medieval manuscripts, natural history specimens, historical artifacts, and artworks.
Accommodation: Finding off-campus housing that fits your needs can take significant time and energy. Here we offer off-campus housing resources that can assist you in your search. Finding suitable accommodations is the student’s responsibility. We call students that live off-campus, our ‘Day Students.’
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President Lahey began his career as clerk for Mr. Justice La Forest of the Supreme Court of Canada and later practiced with the Halifax firm of McInnes, Cooper & Robertson. After eight years in the Nova Scotia public service, including as Assistant Deputy Minister of Health, he joined the faculty of Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law in 2001, where he served as the Director of the Dalhousie Health Law Institute between 2007 and 2011. He continues to teach Canadian legal history at Schulich Law. He has been honoured for teaching excellence by Dalhousie law students on three occasions, in 2004, 2008 and again in 2015. His research spans the fields of administrative, constitutional, health, environmental and regulatory law.
During his public service career, President Lahey was responsible for legislative reform in a number of areas, including workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety, labour relations and labour standards, health system and health professions legislation, and environmental law. In 2012-2013, he worked again with Mr. Justice La Forest to complete a major review of Nova Scotia’s mental health legislation.
He was Director of Journalism programs from 2016-22 and became the university’s Vice... read more
His teaching has focused on text- and image-based reporting for online platforms. He led the university’s digital news instruction for much of the past two decades, having taught the news reporting workshop, and courses on introductory reporting, audience engagement and professional practice.
He was the primary and secondary author of numerous discussion papers on contemporary ethical practice as a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists Ethics Committee from 2011-2016. Those papers proposed best practices for unpublishing requests, comment moderation, online corrections and use of sponsored content. They also suggested an updated definition of journalism in the context of social media.
Prof. Currie advanced the interests of Canadian journalism schools as an elected board member of J-Schools Canada from 2018-2024. He was the association’s treasurer and manager of institutional memberships. He was also the sole administrator of two $200,000 funds that supported career development opportunities at 19 Canadian journalism schools.
Deane Little was born in Toronto and raised i... read more
“Debra Deane Little is warm, caring, friendly, down-to-earth, enthusiastic, genuinely interested in everyone, and deeply committed to King’s and its well-being,” says William Lahey, King’s President and Vice-Chancellor. “We are delighted she has agreed to be the honorary leader of our community for the next five years.”
As an engaged King’s parent, Deane Little has grown to admire King’s and its distinctive educational mission with its emphasis on living and learning together in a supportive community. On that basis she has, with her husband, become a major benefactor of King’s, including the funding of the Debra Deane Little and Robert Little Academic Scholarships for Varsity Athletes. These include 14 four-year entrance scholarships every year and additional scholarships of shorter duration to students who excel at King’s. Over the next five years, potentially more than 100 students will receive funding under this unique academic scholarship program.
Stephanie is the Chief Strategy Officer at VERB Interactive, an a... read more
Stephanie graduated from the University of King’s College in 1999 with a Bachelor of Journalism Honors degree. Since then, she has navigated through diverse roles in online magazines, television newsrooms, and marketing agencies. Her work has seen her writing about pop stars, crafting marketing strategies for large pharmaceutical companies, creating clever radio scripts, and envisioning large-scale creative brand campaigns.
Stephanie is a lifelong learner, continually seeking to expand her knowledge and skills. She is an alumna of Seth Godin’s altMBA program, a global leadership and management workshop designed for high-performing individuals who want to level up and lead. She also attended a Video Storytelling Workshop at KDMC Berkley, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she honed her skills in visual narrative. Additionally, she participated in a Literary Arts – Writing With Style – Narrative, Literary Arts program at The Banff Centre, further refining her storytelling abilities.
The University of King’s College, founded in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1789, was the first university to be established in English Canada. The college was the first in Canada to receive a charter and is the oldest English-speaking Commonwealth university outside the United Kingdom.
But before the King’s College of Windsor came to be, there had already been one King’s College in the New World. Founded by King George II in New York in 1754, the school’s short life ended with the American Revolution, and the old King’s was later reorganized as Columbia University.