STUDENT ENROLMENT

Institutional Goal:

• Increase undergraduate enrolments in a manner consistent with the continuing improvement in the quality of the student body, and the reputation of the University:
• Increase the number of applicants;
• Increase uptake rates from applicants;
• Increase the number of students recruited into first year;
• Increase number of applicants from Ottawa-Carleton;
• Increase number of applicants from Greater Toronto area;
• Increase international applications.

While improving "quality", as measured by the high school entrance average, so that the entrance average increases by approximately .5 of a percentage point per year.

(Detailed breakdowns of admissions statistics for past years by degree, region and other demographics are available on the Office of Institutional Research web site at www.carleton.ca/oirp - follow the link to Admissions Statistics .)

• The overall admissions average of Canadian high school students registering in first year at Carleton continued to increase, rising from 80.1% in 2000 to 80.9% in 2001. The entrance average in the B.A., Carleton's largest program, increased by 1.5 percentage points topping a 1.4 percentage point increase the year before. The provincial average for all registered students, as reported by the Ontario Universities Application Centre, was 80.3% in Fall 1999. It remained at 80.3% for all confirmed applicants in Fall 2000 (final registrant data not yet available).
• The number of applicants to Carleton's undergraduate programs increased again in 2001. This continued a 5-year trend.
• In most undergraduate programs, including the B.A. and the B.Sc./B.Math., the proportion of applicants approved for acceptance declined slightly compared to the previous year - partly reflecting increasing entrance standards. The proportion of applicants approved who eventually registered increased slightly overall.
• First year grew from 4,261 in Fall 2000 to 4,516 in Fall 2001. Notably, the number of new students increased while the number of returning students dropped, reflecting improved progression rates.
• Overall, the number of applicants increased significantly from both Ottawa-Carleton and Metro Toronto. The yield rate of those registering who were accepted rose slightly from Ottawa-Carleton (to 55%), while the yield rate from Toronto dropped (to 18%). A similar pattern is observed for first choice applicants.
• The number of high school applicants with averages >= 80% continued a five-year upward trend.
• International applications were up strongly from the year before, resulting in 456 registrants - an increase of 80% over two years earlier (the greater number of applicants was partly a consequence of the introduction of web-based applications for international students at the Ontario Universities Application Centre (OUAC)).

Notes:

• In the 2000 admissions year, there is a database anomaly relating to the B. Engineering program - all applicants who had not responded by a specified date had their approvals 'deferred' resulting in a high percent registered (of approved, 82%) but a low percent approved (28%).
• The three Ontario University application limit was removed as of the 1998 application year by OUAC.