With a population over 125 000, Moncton is the most populous metropolitan area in New Brunswick . Moncton is one of the top ten fastest growing metropolitan areas in Canada and is also the fastest growing urban region east of Toronto. This includes the neighboring city of Dieppe and the town of Riverview, as well as the adjacent areas of Westmorland and Albert counties. This city, located along the Petitcodiac River draws on its history and picturesque location to draw in a high rate of tourism in both the summer and winter months. There is no shortage of adventure, opportunity and security making Moncton one the country’s most desirable places to live.
Separate Anglophone and Francophone school boards administer greater Moncton's 34 public primary and secondary schools. District 1 is Francophone and administers nine schools in the Moncton area. District 2 is Anglophone and administers 25 schools in Greater Moncton. There are four Anglophone high schools in the metro Moncton area:
Moncton High School
Harrison Trimble High School
Bernice McNaughton High School
Riverview High School
The area's Francophone high schools are:
École Mathieu-Martin
École L'Odyssée
Four universities have campuses in the greater Moncton region. The Université de Moncton is the largest French-language university in Canada outside of Quebec. The school enrolls over 4000 students and offers a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate degree programs, including a School of Law. Crandall University (formerly Atlantic Baptist University) is a private liberal arts university affiliated with the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches that enrolls about 800 students. The University of New Brunswick in Moncton is a small satellite health sciences campus located at the Moncton Hospital that offers degrees in nursing and medical X-ray technology to over 300 students. Mount Allison University, currently ranked by MacLean's magazine as Canada's top undergraduate university, is located about a half hour from downtown Moncton in nearby Sackville.