Aidan Jaager's blog

The Rising Cost of Tuition Fees for Undergraduate Students in Canada  Among all provinces and territories, the largest increase in undergraduate average tuition rates (fees), between the years 2018-2023, is Alberta at 26.4 per cent according to Statistics Canada data.   Over the last five years, almost all of Canada's provinces and territories have seen a drastic increase in average tuition fees. Ontario is an exception to this as the province has seen a decrease of almost 10 per cent. For students across the country, tuition is becoming non-affordable. In certain fields of studies, there has also been significant increase in fees, raising concerns for Canadians.  The reason for the increase in average tuition fees is due to inflation . D ata from the "Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs ( TLAC  )  survey" shows how inflation impacts full-time postsecondary students regarding their tuition fees and other costs.  In a study conducted by Statistics ...

 Chart Unanswered Question My question: How many students are enrolled in each individual field of study for 2022/23 in every province? One aspect of my data that I was interested in was the number of students in each field of study. As stated by Chad, a lot of fields like business and arts have more students, so it would be interesting to see which have the most and which have the least number of students. The tuition in fields like arts are low in cost in comparison to dentistry, law and medicine and an assumption can be made that there are many less fields in those fields.  How would you get the data? A CSV dataset or xlsx file could answer the question I might have. Statistics Canada and the Government of Canada open dataset would be two agencies that could potentially answer my question. To go about getting the data I could just simply email and ask for it beforehand, as some agencies will just give the data before an FOI request. If that is unsuccessf...