Opening Enrolment of 576 is a New CUC Record

Many of this year's 576 students gathered at the hockey rink for the
 annual SA Handshake which this year had a Mexican fiesta theme.

This year's opening enrolment of 576 is 47 more than last year and another record high for Canadian University College.  Students represent all of Canada's provinces, 15 states of the United States of America, and a total of 15 different countries.  Women outnumber the men 301 to 275.

Since this year's group of 1st year students is not significantly larger than usual, it appears transfer students and an outstanding overall retention rate of 79% account for most of this year's increase.

The breakdown of from which part of Canada students have come is:

• Alberta, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories: 238 (increase of 35 over last year)
• Ontario: 136 (increase of 19 over last year)
• British Columbia and Yukon: 90 (decrease of 9 from last year)
• Manitoba and Saskatchewan: 18 (decrease of 1 from last year)
• Quebec: 17 (decrease of 5 from last year)
• Maritime Provinces: 16 (increase of 2 over last year)
• Newfoundland and Labrador: 2 (increase of 1 over last year)

With 517 of CUC's 576 coming from Canada, that leaves 59 who hail from other countries.  Of those, 36 are from the United States (5 more than last year), and 23 are from other countries, (same as last year).