University enrollment increases for fifth year in a row
For the fifth year in a row, more students are going to university than ever before, according to Statistics Canada.
StatsCan’s latest numbers show that 1,047,700 enroled in university in 2005/06. This number is up three per cent from the year before. The growth, as usual, is being driven mainly by 18- to 24-year-olds.
58 per cent of university students were women. This has stayed constant since 2001.
Other news from StatsCan’s back-to-school data round-up:
• Eight in ten Canadian have post-secondary education by the time they turn 26
• Men live at home longer than women
• Almost half of doctorate holders are immigrants
• Increasing Aboriginal people are earning degrees