Undergraduate enrolment for women is less than 25 per cent almost across the board
Undergraduate enrolment at Canadian engineering schools ranges from a few dozen students to more than 4,000 at Waterloo and Toronto. As these 2009 figures show, the number of female students remains low: less than 25 per cent at all but a handful of institutions.
Female students (%) | Total enrolment | |
Waterloo | 16.3 | 4,339 |
Toronto | 21.7 | 4,222 |
Alberta | 20.6 | 3,892 |
École Polytechnique de Montréal | 21.7 | 3,398 |
École de technologie supérieure | 8.4 | 3,221 |
UBC | 18 | 3,124 |
McMaster | 16 | 2,946 |
Concordia | 16 | 2,784 |
Calgary | 24.3 | 2,714 |
McGill | 20.7 | 2,701 |
Queen’s | 23.6 | 2,531 |
Carleton | 13.5 | 2,496 |
Laval | 17.3 | 2,470 |
Ryerson | 16.4 | 2,455 |
Ottawa | 17.1 | 1,595 |
Saskatchewan | 18.7 | 1,270 |
New Brunswick | 17.6 | 1,267 |
Sherbrooke | 16.3 | 1,150 |
Western | 19.3 | 1,117 |
Victoria | 9.1 | 1,114 |
Dalhousie | 19 | 1,090 |
Manitoba | 14.4 | 1,064 |
U of Ontario Institute of Technology | 10 | 1,063 |
Windsor | 11.9 | 991 |
Memorial | 25.9 | 815 |
Regina | 20.1 | 751 |
Lakehead | 8.4 | 747 |
Simon Fraser | 11.8 | 726 |
Guelph | 26.6 | 516 |
Royal Military College of Canada | 11.8 | 355 |
Moncton | 13.5 | 325 |
Québec à Chicoutimi | 10.9 | 276 |
Laurentian | 16.3 | 196 |
Québec à Trois-Rivières | 9.7 | 165 |
York | 13.3 | 165 |
Saint Mary’s | 12.1 | 157 |
UPEI | 19.6 | 102 |
Acadia | 16.3 | 86 |
Québec à Rimouski | 9.6 | 83 |
St. Francis Xavier | 31.6 | 79 |
UNBC | 44.6 | 56 |
Cape Breton* | 29.1 | 55 |
Québec à Montréal | 1.9 | 53 |
Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | 7.7 | 52 |
Nova Scotia Agricultural College | 6.4 | 47 |
Québec en Outaouais | 12.5 | 32 |
50%
Source: Engineers Canada *2007 figures