🇨🇦 235 institutions · 13 provinces & territories
Canada's universities and colleges, and how international they are.
2,342,526 students, counted institution by institution by Statistics Canada. This is the only country here where we can show you how many students at each institution came from abroad — and how enrolment has moved over fifteen years. In British Columbia and Ontario we can also show what happens to graduates, and in British Columbia what an arts degree costs.
Students
2.34M
across universities and colleges in the latest reporting year.
International
24%
across the 233 institutions that publish the split — it ranges from almost none to well over half.
Enrolment trend
15 yrs
per institution — no other country here publishes a comparable series.
Graduate outcomes
56%
of students are at the 70 institutions — all in B.C. and Ontario — with published graduate outcomes. Tuition per institution: B.C. only.
What this can and can't tell you
It can
- How many students each institution has, and how many are international
- How many graduate each year
- What they study, by field
- Whether enrolment is growing or shrinking, over fifteen years
- In B.C.: graduates' employment and pay by programme, and arts tuition for domestic and international students
- In Ontario: graduate employment rates for each university and college
It can't
- What it costs, outside B.C. Statistics Canada publishes tuition by province, city and field of study, not by institution.
- What graduates earn, outside B.C. Ontario publishes employment rates but not pay; other provinces publish neither per institution.
- Entry requirements — each institution sets its own.
Where a figure is missing it means Statistics Canada suppressed that cell to protect confidentiality. We show it as “not published” and never as zero.
Graduate outcomes and tuition, province by province
Statistics Canada counts students at every institution but publishes tuition and graduate earnings only by province, city and field of study. Two provinces publish more, under open licences — each measuring differently, so the figures are compared within a province, never across.
British Columbia
- Graduate outcomes for 25 of 25 institutions, by credential and by programme — share working, median pay, whether the job is related — from BC Stats' surveys of former students (2023–2025 pooled). Across the province, 81.5% of bachelor's graduates were working, at a median $66,000 a year.
- Tuition for 25 institutions: the ministry's annual figure for a full-time arts student, domestic and international, 2016/17 to 2025/26. For 5 institutions that we map as the only degree-granting institution in their area of Statistics Canada's tuition table — and whose own fee shows up in it every year — we add its fees by field of study.
Ontario
- University employment rates for 21 universities, six months and two years after graduating, for every class from 2010–11 to 2020–21 (Ontario-wide 95.1% after two years).
- College indicators for 24 colleges: employment six months after graduating, graduation rate and satisfaction, from the ministry's KPIs.
- No tuition and no graduate pay per institution. Northern Ontario School of Medicine University and Université de l'Ontario français are not in the ministry's files.
47 Ontario institutions in the directory.
Everywhere else — Quebec, Alberta, the Prairies, Atlantic Canada and the territories — we show enrolment only.We have found no openly licensed graduate outcomes or tuition per institution for those provinces: Alberta publishes its graduate outcomes survey by sector and field of study, not by institution, and Statistics Canada's city-level tuition for Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador blends in-province and out-of-province fees.
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Adapted from Statistics Canada, tables 37-10-0277-01 and 37-10-0278-01, Postsecondary Student Information System. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Graduate outcomes and tuition: BC Stats (BC Student Outcomes) and the B.C. Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills; Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities (Ontario University Graduate Survey, college KPIs); Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.