Canada · British Columbia

Royal Roads University

university · British Columbia

Students
2,445

1,077 full-time

International
23.6%

576 students

Graduates
1,536

in the latest year

Women
65.3%

Enrolment over time

2009 to 2023 — -2% over the period.

2009: 2,4962023: 2,445

What students study

Business, management, marketing and related support services45%
Natural resources and conservation18%
Communication, journalism and related programs12%
Security and protective services7%
Multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary studies7%
Social sciences4%
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities3%
Education2%
Physical sciences1%
Public administration and social service professions0%

Share of this institution's enrolment across the fields Statistics Canada publishes for it.

After graduating

BC Stats' Student Outcomes surveys ask former students of B.C.'s public institutions about their work and further study one to two years after their programme. Each figure pools the 2023, 2024 and 2025 surveys. “Working” is the share of ALL respondents working at a paid job or business when surveyed — people in further study count in the denominator. Pay is the median: an annual salary for bachelor's graduates, an hourly wage for every other credential.

CredentialRespondentsWorkingMedian salary, a yearJob related to programmeWent on to study
Bachelor's degrees33187.0%$70,500 a year76.1%32.9%
Bachelor's degrees by programme (9)
ProgrammeRespondentsWorkingMedian salary, a yearJob related
Business and Management
Bachelor of Arts in Global Tourism Management16majority (exact figure withheld)$55,27535.7%
Bachelor of Arts in International Hotel Management21majority (exact figure withheld)$60,66382.4%
Bachelor of Business Administration2272.7%$65,38781.3%
Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management46majority (exact figure withheld)$110,00078.0%
Engineering and Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Practice13majority (exact figure withheld)$72,09554.5%
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Practice23majority (exact figure withheld)$98,71385.0%
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science3984.6%$69,00066.7%
Human and Social Services
Bachelor of Arts in Justice Studies7191.4%$70,88174.6%
Social Sciences
Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communication7188.7%$64,83387.3%

Across all of B.C.'s public institutions, in the same surveys: 81.5% of bachelor's graduates were working, at a median salary of $66,000 a year.

Programmes are grouped into BC Stats' own programme areas. Where BC Stats withholds a figure to protect respondents it publishes a code instead; we show what the code means (for example “majority (exact figure withheld)”) and never a number.

Source: BC Stats, BC Student Outcomes Program data file (surveys 2023 to 2025). These figures are for Royal Roads University only and are measured differently in each province — don't compare them with another province's.

Tuition

Domestic students, 2025/26
$8,266 a year

(BSc in Environmental Science, not arts)

International students, 2025/26
$25,056 a year

(BSc in Environmental Science, not arts)

Royal Roads' figures are for its Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science.

B.C.'s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills publishes one annual tuition figure per public institution: two semesters of five courses for a typical full-time undergraduate arts student, domestic and international. It is an arts figure — other programmes can cost more or less. The ministry publishes mandatory fees in a separate dataset, not shown here. Since 2005, domestic tuition increases at B.C. public institutions have been limited to 2% a year.

Every year since 2016/17
Academic yearDomesticInternational
2025/26$8,266$25,056
2024/25$8,104$23,863
2023/24$7,945$22,945
2022/23$7,789$22,063
2021/22$7,637$21,630
2020/21$7,487$21,206
2019/20$7,340$20,790
2018/19$7,200$20,390
2017/18$7,060$19,995
2016/17$6,925$19,200

Source: B.C. Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, tuition fees for arts programs at B.C. public post-secondary institutions (published September 2025).

What isn't here

B.C. publishes one tuition figure per institution, for one typical programme (arts at most institutions) — check Royal Roads University for the fee of the programme you want, and note that domestic and international rates differ sharply. The graduate figures come from a survey, not tax records, so they describe the graduates who answered. Entry requirements are set by each institution.

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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 – British Columbia.

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