Overview

Abstract (English)

The Youth-in-Transition Survey allows identification of a decision point where a youth completing high school or CEGEP decides whether to attend university in the next academic year. The same survey identifies each point where a youth already in university continues into the next academic year or leaves without graduating. These are two aspects of university participation. There is little evidence that a higher level of tuition plays an important role in the decision by Canadian youth to immediately attend university after high school or CEGEP graduation. There is even less evidence that a higher level of tuition or a change in tuition alters the probability that a Canadian youth, once in university, leaves university without obtaining their degree. Thus any policy effort around university persistence for youth should focus on non-tuition factors and the debate around access and persistence should not focus on the level of tuition.

Abstract (French)

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