More applicants for grad programmes, but enrolments drop

The number of applications for admission to graduate programmes rose 4.3 per cent between autumn 2010 and autumn 2011, but overall these programmes saw enrolment of first-time graduate students dip 1.7 per cent over the period, according to a report released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

“Across the board, graduate school enrollments remain ahead of where they were a decade ago, but the latest figures reverse increases for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years, when enrollments grew 4.5 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively,” CGS explained in its 28 September report.