Engineering schools still have fewer females
Undergraduate enrolment for women is less than 25 per cent almost across the board
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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