University Enrollment Breaks 1000000

As in previous years, most of the growth in 2005/2006 was fuelled by students aged 18 to 24, whose numbers rose 2.8% to just over 673,000. These young adults accounted for 61% of the growth in 2005/2006. They also represented 64% of total enrolment, compared with 59% a decade earlier. University enrolment, which was on the decline throughout the mid-1990s, started to pick up late in the decade. This was due largely to a higher number of students aged 18 to 24, whose rate of growth outpaced total enrolment. Between 1998/1999 and 2005/2006, students aged 18 to 24 accounted for three-quarters of the growth in total enrolment, likely the result of the echo-boom generation, that is, children born between 1980 and 1995. ... http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/080207/d080207a.htm

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