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Ontario Colleges: International students up, Aboriginal students down

Lost in all the back-to-school period excitement was the release of Ontario college enrollment data for 2018-19. The recency of this Ontario data is fantastic, especially given that Statscan is two full years behind (the best data available on students nationally right now is 2016-17, because Ottawa fundamentally does not care about student data).  These are well worth a look because there are some wild things in there, especially if we look at students by “source,” which is a weird mixture

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October 3, 2019 No Comments

Fun with Ontario Application Data

Every year or two, it’s fun to play with Ontario applications data (it would be fun to play with applications data from the rest of the country, too, but Ontario is the only place that actually aggregates it, so hold your hot-takes on upper-Canada-centricness).  And, it turns out, there are a lot of quite interesting stories. Let’s start with the programs of study.  The Ontario University Applications Centre modified its program categories a couple of years ago, so to look

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April 17, 2019 6 Comments

College Finance Data, 2016-17

A few months ago, I promised you all an update on college finances when Statscan finally got around to updating its FINCOL tables.  Well, that day is here. Unlike universities, which have seen their budgets grow in real terms by about 25% over the last decade, growth in college budgets has been a lot slower – only about 14% – and nearly all that growth has come from student fees, since government support has been essentially flat.  In total, college

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January 14, 2019 No Comments

Chinese Higher Education in Four Graphs

Every once in awhile you have to just sit and marvel at what the Chinese government has managed to pull off in higher education.  Since the turn of the millennium, enrolments have increased five-fold.  That’s staggering enough, but check out figure 1 below. Figure 1: Change in Enrolment and Size of 18-21 Cohort, 2000-2017 (2000 = 100) That five-fold jump in enrolment?  It occurred at the same time as a 21% drop in the size of the 18-21 cohort (in

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June 8, 2018 No Comments

Enrolment Trends in Rural/Remote Community Colleges

For giggles, every once in awhile I start looking at institutional enrolment data.  This weekend, I started looking specifically at community colleges.  I noted back here that enrolment in colleges nationally has been pretty flat for the last five years, but that’s a national picture only.  Start drilling down to the level of individual institutions, and things start getting pretty interesting. For the most part, it’s not hard to find data on individual college enrolments over time, even without paying extortionate fees

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April 3, 2018 3 Comments

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