Education Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective, 2018
Table B.1.1.1
Annual expenditure by educational institutions per student, for all services, by educational level, Canadian dollars, Canada, provinces and territories, 2015/2016

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Table B.1.1.1
Annual expenditure by educational institutions per student, for all services, by educational level, Canadian dollars, Canada, provinces and territories, 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Annual expenditure by educational institutions per student, for all services, by educational level, Canadian dollars, Canada, provinces and territories, 2015/2016. Pre-primary, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, College and Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral levels, or equivalent including research and development, calculated using Canadian dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Pre-primary, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary College Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral levels, or equivalent including R&DTable B-1-1-1 Note 1
Canadian dollars
Canada 13,298 16,243 32,073
Newfoundland and Labrador 14,031 20,110 41,400
Prince Edward Island 12,427 23,253 37,225
Nova Scotia 13,754 17,606 33,023
New Brunswick 13,383 18,290 33,447
Quebec 12,834 12,425 28,051
Ontario 13,272 17,166 29,910
Manitoba 15,304 16,638 30,041
SaskatchewanTable B-1-1-1 Note 2 15,136 23,663 41,836
Alberta 15,357 18,477 40,829
British Columbia 10,371 14,955 38,017
Yukon 28,880 38,441 Note ...: not applicable
Northwest Territories 27,274 60,632 Note ...: not applicable
Nunavut 15,766 64,408 Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
Note 1

For the university sector, financial data are collected at an institutional level only, and cannot be divided by type of program. As a result, expenditures also include any expenditures for programs that are not at the Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral levels such as career, technical or professional training programs.

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Note 2

For the college level, regional colleges are excluded from the calculation.

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Notes: Comparisons between the provinces and territories must be made with caution. Certain differences in the cost per student figures by province/territory at the secondary level are attributable to whether or not registrations for adult education programs are included in enrolments in some provinces/territories.
As of the 2015/2016 data year there have been changes in the methodology, so these values should not be directly compared to previous years. Please see the Definitions, sources and methodology section of chapter B1 for details.
In Quebec, vocational training and general education for adults are included at the secondary level.
Note that this indicator does not follow the OECD's new method for calculating expenditure, and focuses on expenditures by educational institutions.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Elementary-Secondary Education Survey; Survey of Uniform Financial System - School Boards; Survey of Financial Statistics of Private Elementary and Secondary Schools; Survey of Federal Government Expenditures in Support of Education; Provincial Expenditures on Education in Reform and Correctional Institutions; Financial Information of Universities and Colleges Survey; Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS).
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