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Table B.2.11
Average undergraduate and graduate university tuition fees, full-time students,
1 by program, Canada, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

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  2007/2008 2008/2009
in current dollars
Undergraduate programs
Dentistry 12,516 12,906
Medicine 10,029r 10,392
Law 7,382r 7,720
Engineering 5,099r 5,310
Mathematics, computer and information sciences 4,746r 4,947
Business, management and public administration 4,637r 4,828
Physical and life sciences and technologies 4,534r 4,682
Other health, parks, recreation and fitness 4,400 4,551
Humanities 4,342r 4,478
Veterinary medicine 4,296 4,441
Visual and performing arts, and communications technologies 4,239r 4,389
Nursing 4,267 4,385
Social and behavioural sciences 4,165r 4,318
Pharmacy 4,215 4,298
Architecture and related technologies 3,999r 4,246
Agriculture, natural resources and conservation 4,064r 4,181
Education 3,545r 3,666
Graduate programs
Executive MBA 22,142 22,647
Regular MBA 14,545 15,053
Dentistry 7,187 7,560
Medicine 5,811r 6,008
Business, management and public administration 5,225r 5,395
Education 4,353r 4,476
Nursing 4,286 4,469
Other health, parks, recreation and fitness 4,305 4,457
Engineering 4,287r 4,447
Physical and life sciences and technologies 4,067r 4,249
Architecture and related technologies 4,068r 4,194
Mathematics, computer and information sciences 4,042r 4,166
Agriculture, natural resources and conservation 3,873r 3,967
Visual and performing arts, and communications technologies 3,759r 3,917
Law 3,813r 3,874
Social and behavioural sciences 3,709r 3,838
Humanities 3,460r 3,578
Veterinary medicine 2,774 2,903
Pharmacy 1,909 2,006
1. Both in- and out-of-province students are included in the weighted average calculations; foreign students are not included. Based on the eight-month academic year.
Notes:
A major redesign of the Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs for Full-time Students (TLAC) questionnaire was implemented for the 2007/2008 collection cycle. The new fields of study presented for both graduate and undergraduate programs are adapted from the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), now Statistics Canada's standard for field of study classification. It is not possible to map the tuition provided in the new categories to those used before 2007/2008.
Data source:
Survey of Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs for Full-time Students, Statistics Canada.
Table source:
Statistics Canada and Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. 2007. Education indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program. Catalogue no. 81-582-XIE. Ottawa.
Updated December 16, 2008.