Student Enrolment Statistics

Student Population

• Headcount totals more than 7,500 students in credit programs each term
• Approximately 700 international students enrol each term
• 34% are enrolled in arts & sciences programs; 56% in career/vocational programs; 10% in preparatory programs 
• 72% are full-time; 28% part-time
• 59% are female; 41% are male
• 40% are residents of the North Shore; 26% are residents of Vancouver and Burnaby; the remaining 34% come from the rest of the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada and around the world
• An additional 5,000 people take non-credit courses each year

For more information and graphs, please see the Student Enrolment & Demographics report - based on students in the Fall 2009 term with comparisons to Fall 2006, 2003 and 2000 - headcount enrolment by Division, Gender, Age or Residency.

Surveys of the new, credit students entering the University indicate:

• Most identified the quality of teaching and the availability of courses as the main reasons for choosing Capilano.
• 51% came directly from high school.
• 35% had attended another post-secondary institution (14% from a university).

Surveys of recent Capilano graduates show:

• 96% of career/vocational graduates who sought employment had a job within six months of graduation;
• 87% ranked the quality of teaching as good or very good.

For more information, please contact:

Nancy Morris, Institutional Research Analyst
E-mail: nmorris@capilanou.ca