The UNBC website shows he student populaton from September to August as follows.

07/08 4177
08/09 4322.

This is the last information on student enrollments. Where are the figures for
07/09 to 08/10. This would be the interesting numbers, and would indicate if enrollments last year were up or down.

Maybe these numbers will come out with the enrollment numbers for September 2010.

These numbers of course are for all students, the majority of which are part time. So it would also be interesting to get the number of full time equivelant students for Sept to August 2010.

Student "population"? I would assume that is different from Full Time Equivalent (FTE).

Same as City population without taking into consideration that a small but likely growing percentage might be snowbirds who do not live here for 4+ months a year.


Here are the stats based on the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada for 2009.
http://www.aucc.ca/publications/stats/enrol_e.html I have linked that site on here several times before.

The numbers are as follows:
Full time undergrads – 2,030
Full time grads - 410
Total full time – 2,430
Part time undergrads - 990
Part time grads – 120
Part time – 1,110
Total – 3,550 bodies

No idea what the FTE is, but likely hovering around low 3,000+

I am curious to know what proportion of the FTE comes from summer enrolment.

The great thing is that is over 3,000 more than there were 20 years ago.

That means greater opportunity for
1. those who would not have received university level education otherwise
2. those who would have had to spend more to go out of town
3. those we would not have hosted from other regional, provincial, national and international locations.

We must not forget THAT and other advantages of having a university here in the scramble, by some, to keep on discrediting UNBC for some unknown motive!!!!

So, you were saying that the majority of the students were part time, Palopu.

On what did you base that false impression?

Or do you think that the numbers from the AUCC are false?

I noticed the total full time should be 2,440, not 2,430. Sorry, my abacus had a broken bead.

UNBC has a considerably higher percentage of full time graduate students. Over 16% of the full time body are in graduate programs.

The total FT number means that UNBC is in the middle of all universities in Canada, 44th. So, only 1 in 2 have more full grad students than UNBC does. Quite a feat in what is such a short life in a University's life.

Proportionally to total full time students we sit even further up the scale in lower part of the upper quartile.

Thank you to the vision of the original founders and to Dr. Max Blouw.

Is it just me, or does the pedestrian in the photo only have one leg? Or maybe it's one leg and a handbag, or perhaps one leg and the other leg is kicked up 90 degrees like they're doing an Irish jig? Not enough people do Irish jigs while walking down sidewalks these days.

The Iwama's are classy people. PG is very lucky to have them here.

LOL. I vote for the Irish jig.

Gus. Student population means;

Total Students in academic programs 08/09 4332

Undergraduate students 3638
Graduate students 662

For some reason this doesnt add up to 4332 however Im sure they have an explanation. As a matter of interest 614 of these students are at campuses. So in fact there would only be 3718 at UNBC Pr George.

I also do not know what the FTE student number would be. However the figure of 4332 Students is UNBC's figure not mine. One would have to assume if 2430 of these are full time graduate and undergraduate, then the balance 1902 would be part time. Not quite a majority but close. Of course we do not know how many students in campuses are part time, so we still have no exact figure for the number of students who actually attend this University on a full time basis.

If one looks at the Alumni numbers the total to date is 8260. If we were to take an average of graduates from 1994 to 2009 we would come up with 550 students graduating each year. Is this the number that we should be using. UNBC Graduates 550 Students per year.????

In any event the University is funded on the basis of FTE Students and that is the number that is missing.

Here are the Grad+undergrad
FTE numbers (31 March) which does not include international fte:

2010: 3004 (392 short of ministry target)
2009: 3054 (300 short of ministry target)
2008: 2976 (290 short of ministry target)

After the hiring of Mark Dale, the new VP, in July 2008 we see the gap between UNBC FTE and ministry target has increased. This shows a negative score for the performance of new VP Mark Dale. If the numbers continue to fall next year, then his contract renewal will be on the line.

UNBC's decline in FTE is mainly due to
the massive mis-management in the college of science and management (CSAM) over the period of 2000-2010: Here are the the undergrad FTE in the CSAM college vs. the CASHS college in UNBC:

----- 2001 2006 2009
CSAM: 1420 1248 1202
CASHS 758 1091 1233

In 2001-2009, the FTE in CSAM has declined by around -220 while the CASHS FTE increased by around +470. Ironically, the contract of the dean of CSAM Dr William McGill (with around -200 FTE decline) was renewed in 2005 for another 5 years and the contract of the dean of CASHS Dr Jim Randell (with around +400 FTE) was not renewed!

Iwama needs to look at the FTE numbers and fix the broken system of reward punishment system in UNBC and reverse the damages in CSAM. Otherwise what fool (even with a PhD) rewards -220 decline and punishes +470 increase?