GRADUATE PROGRAMS

• Focus and thereby enhance the University's activity and profile in graduate studies and research by targeting strategic areas in graduate studies.
• Decrease the amount of time required to complete graduate programs.




Commentary:



• The size of the graduate program has remained at about the same relative size for a number of years (see Section III), however, there has been some change in the internal distribution of student enrolments. As of Fall 2000, there has been a small absolute growth in graduate enrolments over 1999/00 and graduate enrolments are now back at the 1995/96 level with a small change in favour of Ph.D. students.
• By faculty, the largest increase over 1999/00 was in Engineering where enrolment increased 10.6%; the largest decline was in Arts and Social Sciences (reflecting a steady decline in Psychology enrolments) where enrolment declined 2.3%. The pattern, over the past few years, has been declining enrolments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and increasing enrolments in the other faculties - taking 1995/96 as a base the largest increase has been in Science followed by Public Affairs and Management.
• 'Time to degree' is now below the five-year average in both the Ph.D. and Masters; the time to degree for Masters has been gradually declining every year since 1995/96.