Directory: Tuition and Living Accomodation Costs for Full-time Students
at Canadian Degree Granting Institutions 

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Summary
The objective of this survey is to gather information on tuition fees, living 
accommodation costs at residences/housing and additional compulsory fees paid by full-
time university students at Canadian universities. Data are collected annually by questionnaire 
through the Registrar or the Business Office of universities. Survey results are available
at the end of August. 

Data for undergraduate programs are available by institution, by province, by program 
and by type of students (Canadian or Foreign).Data for graduate programs are available 
by institution, by province and by type of students (Canadian or Foreign)

Additional compulsory fees are available by institution, by province and by type 
(athletics, health services, student association ,and other)

Living accommodation costs at residence/housing are available by institution, by type of 
students (single or married) and by type of costs (room, meal plan, or both).

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Note to survey users: 

The Survey of Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs for Full-time
Students at Canadian Degree-granting Institutions (TLAC), which was
administered from April to June 2007 to collect data on 2007/2008
tuition fees, has undergone important modifications. 

The survey universe was increased from around 60 institutions in
previous years to 102 institutions this year. In addition, the program
classification, according to which tuition data are obtained, adopted
the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) coding. 

This new coding structure is now used for all postsecondary surveys and
the Census of population. This allows the use of more recent and more
accurate university enrolment data, which are also based on CIP, for the
calculation of weighted tuition fees. Finally, data on the subject
specific tuition fees paid by graduate students are now as detailed as
those for undergraduate students. 

These changes have a minimal impact on the interprovincial comparability
of tuition data. But the comparability of tuition data across fields of
programs will be affected. Given that a different subject classification
is used, it is impossible to produce weighted average tuitions paid in a
manner consistent with previous years. 

In some cases (e.g., medicine, education and a few others), the
classification remained consistent. For these disciplines, the only
factor affecting the comparability of weighted averages to previous
years is the number of institutions that provided tuition data. 

In other cases (e.g., arts and sciences), the category no longer exists
and the tuition for programs under that category may now appear under
two or three different categories. It is not possible to map the tuition
provided in the new categories to the categories used in preceding
years. 

All fees are reported in current dollars. 

Data shown represent only a portion of all costs incurred for attending
university. TLAC is an administrative survey with minimum response
burden and resource requirement. Such a survey can only provide a
portion of the total real cost of obtaining a university education.
Additionally, data in this release do not account for the student
financial assistance provided. 


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