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Rankin School of Nursing Entrance Award

All incoming 2024-2025 BScN students will receive a $500 award to help with first-year expenses. The award will be applied directly to your student account and can be used for course materials, on-campus meals, housing, and more. It’s our way of saying thank you for choosing the Rankin School of Nursing and contributing to the health and well-being of our province.

Policy on Nursing Student Awards

Selection Criteria

In addition to scholarships and awards available to any StFX student, nursing students may apply for the following: 

Sisters of Saint Martha scholarship in honour of Sister Veronica Matthews for an Indigenous nursing student

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Semesters 1 and 2 

Mary Ann Chisholm Award

Radcliffe Award

Semesters 3 and 4 

Jo M. Brown Scholarship (renewable)

Margaret Martel Farrell Sophomore Award (renewable)

Semesters 5 and 6

Rovers Family Memorial Award

Margaret Martel Farrell Junior Award

Semesters 7 and 8

Margaret Martel Farrell Senior Award

Academic Vice-President and Provost Award for Student Leadership 

Dean of Science Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice

Evie Grew Award for Maternal-Child Nursing

Canadian Nurses Foundation Scholarships

Faculty & Staff

View 2024-25 Rankin School of Nursing courses

Contact

Rankin School of Nursing

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243 Marguerite Hall
2340 Notre Dame Avenue
Antigonish NS B2G 2W5
Canada

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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