Between 1930 and 1950, Dalhousie had awarded three hundred masters degrees without a Graduate Studies faculty
The Faculty was stablished in 1949
Seventy to eighty students registered for their Master of Arts or Master of Science in first year of FGS
Fees were set at $100 to $150 per year
Degrees available in the faculty’s first year: for a Master’s of Arts; Classics, Economics, English Language and Literature, History, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Public Administration, Philosophy, Political Science; for a Master’s of Science; Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, and Physiology
95 Master’s, 45 PhD and 10 graduate certificate and diploma programs available as of 2017
Graduate students are represented by a separate student union known as the Dalhousie Association for Graduate Students
