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The Changing Finances of World-Class Universities (part 2)

If you are just joining us, we’re in the middle of a three-day session on the finances of the world’s top-200 universities, or, more specifically, the 147 of them in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan and Canada. Yesterday,  I showed that the top-200 institutions in all these countries were increasing their total expenditures in real terms, albeit at different rates, and that their research funding was also increasing substantially (in fact, faster than general revenues

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October 23, 2019 No Comments

Statscan on College Degrees and International Students

What with all the excitement over back-to-school and the federal election, I have been a bit remiss in keeping up with news from Statistics Canada.  Which is unfortunate, because One Thought’s favourite Stastcan analyst, Marc Frenette, had two papers out in September. They are well worth a quick look. The first paper, Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree from a Community College: Earnings Outlook and Prospects for Graduates, was released on September 9th.  In the five provinces west of Quebec, it has been the

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October 15, 2019 No Comments

Canadian University Finances 2017-18

So, the 2017-2018 Financial Information of Universities and Colleges survey dropped in July, and as usual I’ve got a two-parter, one on income and balances (today) and one on expenditures (tomorrow). Figure 1 shows the big, long-term picture. University income, in real dollars, is still on an enormous long-term up-tick. This year, total income was $38.7 billion, down very slightly this year from last because it wasn’t quite as bumper a year on the investment/endowment front. Figure 1: University Income

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September 12, 2019 No Comments

Education at a Glance, 2019: The Key Data

It’s that time of year when literally everyone is releasing data and reports for the back-to-school period (SELF-PROMOTION KLAXON: look for my new paper on Performance-Based Funding of post-secondary education, out from the CD Howe Institute Tuesday next week). Over the next couple of days, we’ll be doing a deep dive on Canadian university finances; today, though, I wanted to go through some of the highlights of this year’s Education at a Glance from the OECD, which dropped yesterday morning

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September 11, 2019 4 Comments

Know Your Incoming Students (2019 edition)

It’s the start of the school year and that’s the best time to examine trends among incoming students. Fortunately for us, this is one of those subjects where Canada has decent public data on the subject, as the Canadian University Survey Consortium (CUSC) has been asking a (mostly) consistent set of questions to first-year students on a triennial basis since 2001. It’s not a perfect survey: consortium membership changes from cycle to cycle, so the base population is neither equal

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August 28, 2019 No Comments
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