The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with campuses located in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English language university in Canada. It is one of four schools that claim the title of oldest public university in the English-speaking portion of North America (the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The College of William and Mary also claim this title;Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (1540), National Autonomous University of Mexico (1551) and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (1587), all of them in Mexico, predate them by two centuries). UNB was founded by a group of seven Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution.