Tuition in Canada

Tuition in Canada

;Facts and figures
*In 2003, undergraduate arts students paid roughly around $4,000 CAD in tuition. In 1990/91 the national average undergraduate arts tuition cost $1,464 per year.
*Between 1990/91 and 2000/01, tuition rose 126.2%, or six times faster than the 20.6% rise in the rate of inflation during the same period.
*If tuition had risen according to inflation, the average cost of attending a university in Canada as an arts student would have been $2,100 in 2001.
*Undergraduate arts students in Nova Scotia pay the most tuition for that program at around $5,557, while residents of Ontario are second at $4,923.
*The largest average tuition hike in Canada occurred in British Columbia from 2002/03 to 2003/04 with a massive increase of 30.4%. This rise was initiated by the British Columbia Liberal government having lifted the tuition freeze, and as a consequence, institutions have increased tuition. Many students from universities and colleges around the province have complained, and have protested against the hikes, some teaching assistants even going on strike.
*Residents of Quebec have had seven consecutive tuition freezes since 1996/97 and currently have the lowest tuition in the country of $1,675 per year. In order to avoid over-population of the Quebec university system, $4,300 are charged for students from other provinces, closer to the national average.
*Professional programs such as dentistry, medicine, and law average the highest tuition across Canada and have also posted the largest average increases in fees this year with hikes of 20.9, 16.7 and 19.4% respectively, compared with 2002/03.
*Between 1990/91 and 1999/2000, university tuition rose by an average of 9.6% a year.

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