McMaster University
university · Ontario
- Students
- 38,427
- International
- 17.2%
- Graduates
- 8,559
- Women
- 54.6%
36,180 full-time
6,627 students
in the latest year
Enrolment over time
2009 to 2023 — +37.4% over the period.
What students study
Share of this institution's enrolment across the fields Statistics Canada publishes for it.
After graduating
- Employment rate 6 months after graduating
- 86.6%
- Employment rate 2 years after graduating
- 95.7%
2020–21 graduates · Ontario 86.2%
2020–21 graduates · Ontario 95.1%
Ontario's Ministry of Colleges and Universities surveys university graduates two years after they graduate and asks about work six months and two years after graduation. Its employment rate is graduates employed or offered a job, divided by graduates in the labour force (working, offered work, or looking for work and not in school) — people who went on to study and weren't looking for work are left out, so this is not the B.C. measure. A blank means 10 or fewer responses. The latest class, 2020–21, was surveyed between December 2022 and July 2023 and entered the job market during the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Graduating class | 6 months after | 2 years after |
|---|---|---|
| 2020–21latest · graduated during COVID-19 | 86.6% | 95.7% |
| 2019–20 | 91.9% | 95.9% |
| 2018–19 | 92.3% | 93.3% |
| 2017–18 | 91.2% | 96.2% |
| 2016–17 | 88.8% | 95.3% |
| 2015–16 | 89.3% | 94.5% |
| 2014–15 | 89.9% | 93.9% |
| 2013–14 | 88.8% | 94.5% |
| 2012–13 | 90.4% | 94.8% |
| 2011–12 | 89.9% | 92.7% |
| 2010–11 | 89.0% | 92.3% |
The ministry's file heads each class with one year (“2020”); it describes the latest as 2020–2021 graduates, so classes are shown as academic years.
Source: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, 2022–23 Ontario University Graduate Survey. These figures are for McMaster University only and are measured differently in each province — don't compare them with another province's.
What isn't here
Ontario publishes graduate employment rates per institution but no per-institution tuition or graduate pay under an open licence, and Statistics Canada's tuition averages combine every institution in a city — so we can't show you what McMaster University costs or what its graduates earn. Check the institution directly for fees; domestic and international rates differ sharply in Canada.
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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. “Not published” in the enrolment figures means Statistics Canada suppressed the cell for confidentiality; it does not mean zero.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
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