Canada's Best Universities 2023: Student Retention
Maclean's tracks how many first-year students return to a university in the second year
These numbers show the percentage of full-time, first-year students enrolled in the fall of 2020 who returned to the university the following year. Many factors can affect a student's choice not to return, but on the whole, retention reflects a university's success in keeping its students on track.
University | Per cent |
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Laurentian | 71.4 |
Brandon | 71.7 |
Winnipeg | 73.9 |
Lethbridge | 74.9 |
St. Thomas | 75.3 |
Memorial | 77.6 |
Mount Saint Vincent | 79.0 |
Nipissing | 79.3 |
Regina | 79.5 |
UNBC | 79.9 |
Cape Breton | 80.5 |
Moncton | 80.6 |
Lakehead | 80.8 |
Trent | 81.0 |
New Brunswick | 81.2 |
Acadia | 81.8 |
Bishop's | 82.4 |
Ontario Tech | 83.1 |
Saint Mary's | 83.1 |
UPEI | 83.3 |
Saskatchewan | 83.8 |
UQAM | 84.1 |
Windsor | 84.7 |
Mount Allison | 84.8 |
St. Francis Xavier | 85.7 |
York | 85.8 |
Victoria | 86.5 |
Simon Fraser | 87.0 |
Montréal | 87.1 |
Wilfrid Laurier | 87.1 |
Dalhousie | 87.3 |
Concordia | 87.4 |
Manitoba | 87.4 |
Brock | 88.1 |
Ottawa | 88.6 |
Toronto Metropolitan | 89.2 |
Carleton | 90.0 |
Toronto | 91.1 |
McMaster | 92.1 |
Sherbrooke | 92.2 |
Laval | 92.3 |
Alberta | 92.4 |
UBC | 92.5 |
Guelph | 92.9 |
Western | 93.0 |
Waterloo | 93.2 |
Calgary | 93.6 |
Queen's | 94.0 |
McGill | 94.3 |