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Impact of Canada's universities

• 1.7M
  students at Canadian universities in 2017

  There were about 1,034,000 full-time, 281,000 part-time and an estimated 400,000 continuing education students in 2017.

• 1.6M
  new jobs

  Between March 2008 and March 2017, 1,574,200 new jobs were created for university graduates – almost three times those created for graduates of all other types of postsecondary education combined.

• $35B
  enterprise

  As a $35 billion enterprise in direct expenditures, universities are significant drivers of economic prosperity. They provide employment for close to 250,000 people.