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University of Guelph

university · Ontario

Students: 31,626
International: 7.2%
Graduates: 6,993
Women: 59.1%

Enrolment over time

2009 to 2023 — +27.3% over the period.

2009: 24,8462023: 31,626

What students study

Biological and biomedical sciences18%

Business, management, marketing and related support services16%

Engineering8%

Agricultural and veterinary sciences/services/operations and related fields8%

Psychology7%

Security and protective services6%

Social sciences5%

Family and consumer sciences/human sciences4%

Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology4%

Computer and information sciences and support services3%

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

After graduating

Employment rate 6 months after graduating: 86.2%
Employment rate 2 years after graduating: 95.4%

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	86.2%	95.4%
2019–20	92.0%	92.6%
2018–19	92.0%	92.5%
2017–18	92.4%	95.3%
2016–17	91.9%	96.8%
2015–16	91.2%	94.9%
2014–15	91.1%	94.5%
2013–14	88.8%	94.0%
2012–13	90.1%	95.1%
2011–12	91.3%	94.2%
2010–11	88.8%	93.5%

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 University of Guelph 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 University of Guelph costs or what its graduates earn. Check the institution directly for fees; domestic and international rates differ sharply in Canada.

Largest institutions in Ontario

University of Toronto99,525 York University53,457 University of Ottawa-Université d'Ottawa49,173 Toronto Metropolitan University47,838 Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning44,928 Western University44,481

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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