Table B.3.2
Incidence and repayment of government student loans among 2009-2010 graduatesNote 1 who did not pursue any further postsecondary educationNote 2 program, CanadaNote 3 and province

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Table B.3.2
Incidence and repayment of government student loans among 2009-2010 graduatesNote 1 who did not pursue any further postsecondary educationNote 2 program, CanadaNote 3 and provinces
Table summary
This table displays the results of Incidence and repayment of government student loans among 2009-2010 graduates who did not pursue any further postsecondary education program. The information is grouped by Province of study and level of education (appearing as row headers), Percentage of graduates who borrowed from the government, Graduates still owing at graduation and Graduates still owing three years after graduation, calculated using percentage and average debt ($) units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province of study and level of education Percentage of graduates who borrowed from the government Graduates still owing at graduation Graduates still owing three years after graduation
percentage percentage average debt ($) percentage average debt ($)
Canada  
All levels of postsecondary education 43 34 19,300 22 14,500
College 37 30 14,000 20 11,200
Bachelor's 48 40 22,300 25 16,300
Master's 46 30 20,600 17 16,000
Doctorate 43 33 23,200 21 17,700
All university 47 37 22,000 23 16,300
Newfoundland and Labrador  
All levels of postsecondary education 48 40 22,500 27 14,500
College 40 35 16,300 25 10,400
Bachelor's 57 49 27,300 32 18,900
Master's 57 32 26,700 22 14,800
Doctorate 33Note E: Use with caution Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
All university 56 45 27,500 29 18,300
Prince Edward Island  
All levels of postsecondary education 53 46 19,000 33 14,600
College 51 46 14,100 31 10,800
Bachelor's 55 50 27,000 41 20,000
Master's 65 Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
Doctorate Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
All university 55 47 27,300 37 20,200
Nova Scotia  
All levels of postsecondary education 51 42 24,700 31 18,400
College 45 36 14,400 29 10,900
Bachelor's 56 50 30,400 36 23,400
Master's 52 34 30,000 22 20,500
Doctorate 44 34 18,400 20 12,800
All university 55 45 30,200 32 22,700
New Brunswick  
All levels of postsecondary education 63 53 30,200 40 23,300
College 61 49 16,000 32 13,900
Bachelor's 67 60 35,200 48 25,800
Master's 46 27 27,000 16 22,400
Doctorate 36 23Note E: Use with caution 48,500Note E: Use with caution Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
All university 64 55 34,600 42 25,700
Quebec  
All levels of postsecondary education 49 35 11,800 24 8,900
College 41 31 8,800 20 7,200
Bachelor's 51 35 11,900 25 8,200
Master's 57 39 13,800 24 11,300
Doctorate 61 52 17,900 38 14,400
All university 53 37 12,900 26 9,500
Ontario  
All levels of postsecondary education 44 37 19,900 21 15,200
College 40 33 15,200 22 13,100
Bachelor's 51 45 22,400 23 16,100
Master's 40 30 24,400 13 20,400
Doctorate 34 25 28,700 13 22,700
All university 47 40 22,900 20 17,000
Manitoba  
All levels of postsecondary education 27 21 17,200 11 12,500
College 20 17 11,700 9 6,800
Bachelor's 31 25 19,600 14 15,300
Master's 36 19Note E: Use with caution 21,300 10Note E: Use with caution 13,700Note E: Use with caution
Doctorate 17Note E: Use with caution Note F: too unreliable to be published 35,000Note E: Use with caution Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
All university 31 23 20,000 13 15,000
Saskatchewan  
All levels of postsecondary education 39 30 23,500 20 15,900
College 35 27 14,000 18Note E: Use with caution 7,800
Bachelor's 44 36 27,700 23 20,200
Master's 32 17 28,700 9Note E: Use with caution 17,700
Doctorate 30Note E: Use with caution 22Note E: Use with caution 31,800Note E: Use with caution Note F: too unreliable to be published 12,400Note E: Use with caution
All university 41 32 27,900 21 19,800
Alberta  
All levels of postsecondary education 36 27 23,000 17 16,200
College 30 22 15,800 12 11,200
Bachelor's 40 33 26,300 22 17,600
Master's 40 22 23,300 14 17,900
Doctorate 30 20Note E: Use with caution 44,100Note E: Use with caution 13Note E: Use with caution 36,700Note E: Use with caution
All university 40 30 26,400 20 18,200
British Columbia  
All levels of postsecondary education 35 28 25,200 20 19,300
College 27 22 17,100 16Note E: Use with caution 12,100
Bachelor's 41 36 29,000 25 23,000
Master's 40 18 27,100 11 21,000
Doctorate 34 22Note E: Use with caution 18,700 Note F: too unreliable to be published 12,200Note E: Use with caution
All university 40 32 28,600 22 22,600
.. not available for a specific reference period
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
Note 1.

For graduates who incurred government student loans and who reported data three years after graduation. Government student loan programs include all federal and provincial student lending resources; that is, programs under which provincial and federal governments provide loans to Canadians enrolled in full- or part-time postsecondary education.

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Note 2.

A program for a diploma, certificate or degree above the high school level that would take someone three months or more to complete if taken full time.

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Note 3.

Excludes the territories.

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Notes: The amounts are rounded to the nearest thousand.
The amount for average debt includes all government student loans for all postsecondary education undertaken by the respondent, and not just the most recent.
Data from this table is not comparable with Table B.3.1, as data in this table exclude graduates who pursued any further postsecondary education program.
Please note that the National Graduates Survey (NGS) 2013, class of 2009-2010 was conducted three years after graduation, whereas previous National Graduate Surveys were conducted two years after graduation. While information on graduates at the time of graduation is comparable across cycles, information on graduate’s activities at the time of the interview are not directly comparable. For example, labour market outcomes and debt repayment pertain to status three years after graduation for the NGS 2013 compared to two years after graduation for other cycles of NGS.
Source: Statistics Canada, National Graduates Survey (Class of 2009-2010).
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