Historically more students go back to school in a recession — but the pandemic could change that.
McGill University campus in 2017 in Montreal, Que. One student who hoped to attend this year said she has deferred because of the challenges online learning posed to her as an international student.
In the 2017-18 academic year, 14.7 per cent of university students, and 13.2 per cent of college students, were international, according to. In math, computer and information science programs, almost one-third of students were international, and one in five students in medical residency subspecialty programs were international.
Whether students return in the fall, and if they decide to take a part- or full-time course load, also has “significant budgetary implications” for universities, Davidson said.Ontario Universities’ Application Centre That includes students who choose to go to post-secondary institutions after high school, as well as older adults going back to school to retrain. Elizabeth Dhuey, an associate professor of economics at the University of Toronto, said it's typical that in a recession more students attend college or university.
But Prachi Srivastava, an associate professor in education and international development at Western University, cautioned against assuming that the conditions present in the COVID-19 pandemic mimic the pattern of what would happen to post-secondary education in any other recession.
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