Table A.3.1
Graduation rates1 in tertiary education, by programme, sex, and age, Canada and jurisdictions, 2008

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  ISCED 5B
(Tertiary-type B programmes, first-time graduation)		 ISCED 5A
(Tertiary-type A programmes, first-time graduation)		 ISCED 6
(Advanced research programmes)
Total Men Women Younger than 30 Adjusted for international students2 Total Men Women Younger than 30 Age at: Adjusted for international students2 Total Adjusted for international students2
Total Younger than 30 20th percentile3 50th percentile3 80th percentile3 Total Younger than 30
percent
OECD average4 10.4 9.1 11.9 6.9 .. .. 38.6 31.0 46.5 31.5 .. .. .. .. .. 1.5 ..
Canada5,6 28.8 23.5 34.4 22.2 27.5 21.0 36.9 28.3 45.8 33.4 21.4 22.8 25.4 34.6 31.2 1.2 1.0
Newfoundland and Labrador 25.2 24.1 26.3 21.0 24.7 20.5 40.3 29.3 51.2 37.3 21.8 22.5 24.9 38.0 35.2 0.7 0.6
Prince Edward Island 43.4 51.6 35.5 37.0 42.9 36.6 34.4 22.5 46.2 31.8 20.8 22.2 25.2 32.3 29.8 0.4 0.4
Nova Scotia 32.4 33.0 31.8 25.8 31.9 25.6 54.5 45.3 63.5 50.7 20.9 22.2 24.6 48.9 45.4 0.8 0.7
New Brunswick 23.9 23.6 24.1 18.7 23.5 18.3 44.4 34.0 55.4 40.5 21.4 22.7 25.1 38.9 35.4 0.5 0.5
Quebec 33.4 25.6 41.6 22.5 32.3 21.6 33.2 26.0 40.7 28.8 22.3 23.8 26.8 30.5 26.4 1.6 1.4
Ontario 30.8 26.2 35.5 26.2 28.7 24.5 42.9 33.3 53.0 40.2 21.2 22.3 24.2 41.0 38.3 1.2 1.1
Manitoba 14.9 11.2 18.7 10.4 14.7 10.2 33.4 25.5 41.8 29.0 21.4 23.0 26.5 30.6 26.3 0.7 0.5
Saskatchewan7 24.4 22.9 26.0 18.0 24.3 17.9 29.8 22.4 37.3 25.3 22.2 23.7 27.3 28.4 24.0 0.9 0.7
Alberta 26.2 20.1 32.9 20.4 25.1 19.5 26.4 19.3 34.2 23.3 21.2 22.7 25.9 25.4 22.4 1.2 1.0
British Columbia 23.3 16.2 30.4 15.4 22.1 14.4 33.0 24.7 41.6 28.7 21.5 23.2 26.7 30.1 26.0 1.1 0.9
Yukon 3.5 2.6 4.4 2.7 3.5 2.6 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Northwest Territories 13.9 2.4 27.1 10.1 13.9 10.0 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Nunavut 13.3 2.6 24.2 9.8 13.3 9.8 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
.. not available for a specific reference period
… not applicable
1. Graduation rates are the sum of graduation rates for single year of age. Adjusted graduation rates are also presented and exclude international students from this calculation. Please see the "Definitions, sources and methodology" section in Indicator A3 for more details.
2. Adjusted graduation rates correspond to the graduation rates when international students are excluded.
3. Respectively, 20%, 50%, and 80% of first-time graduates are below this age.
4. These averages are from Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators, Table A3.1, Graduation rates in tertiary education and age distribution of new graduates at tertiary-type A level (2009) and Table A3.3, Graduation rate at different tertiary levels, impact of international/foreign students (2009), which present the most recent available data for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries for which data were available or could be estimated. Please see the OECD's Web site at www.oecd.org.
5. The most recent data available for Canada's jurisdictions are for 2008. Due to early cutoff dates for submission of data to the OECD, the figures for Canada presented in this report are not the same as those published in the OECD's Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators. The figures presented in this report represent the most recent available.
6. Graduates from public institutions only.
7. The University of Regina, in Saskatchewan, has not reported its graduates to PSIS since 2005-2006. The graduation rate for Saskatchewan was calculated using the 2004 number of graduates from the University of Regina.
Note: The methodology used to produce numbers for Canada and the provinces/territories may differ from that used in a particular province/territory; as a result, the numbers in this table may differ from those published by the provinces/territories.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators.