Degree Completion Rates
The Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities has calculated degree completion rates reported in 2007 using a single entering class of students (1998) and determined whether or not they graduated within a seven-year period. The data for that entering class indicated that York's overall degree completion rate was 67.7%. For the last 6 years York's overall degree completion rates have been as follows:
| Data Reported 2001 | Data Reported 2002 | Data Reported 2003 | Data Reported 2004 | Data Reported 2005 | Data Reported 2006 | Data Reported 2007 | |
| Agricult/Bio Sci | 59.8% | 64.6% | 59.4% | 54.9% | 60.2% | 56.2% | 54.2% |
| Other Arts & Science | 63.2% | 61.8% | 63.6% | 61.9% | 52.5% | 56.1% | 42.2% |
| Business & Commerce | 66.8% | 70.6% | 72.7% | 69.7% | 73.4% | 69.1% | 68.6% |
| Computer Sci | 62.8% | 63.3% | 67.5% | 60.6% | 56.9% | 58.4% | 50% |
| Education | 97.5% | 98.1% | 99.1% | 98.8% | 98.1% | 97.0% | 97.7% |
| Fine & Applied Arts | 58.5% | 59.3% | 58.7% | 56.9% | 56.8% | 59.5% | 64.3% |
| Humanities | 65.1% | 68.4% | 64.3% | 62.8% | 62.7% | 64.5% | 63.3% |
| Law | 93.6% | 94.4% | 94.2% | 95.9% | 92.7% | 94.2% | 92.4% |
| Mathematics | 63.0% | 71.8% | 70.2% | 68.8% | 72.2% | 64.0% | 58.8% |
| Kinesiol, Rec., Phys. Ed. | 58.7% | 71.8% | 60.8% | 64.6% | 66.8% | 65.6% | 65.5% |
| Physical Sci | 58.3% | 67.9% | 66.3% | 64.6% | 58.5% | 68.3% | 57.8% |
| Social Sciences | 66.0% | 67.1% | 64.7% | 65.1% | 66.4% | 67.1% | 65.8% |
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| Not Reported | - | - | - | - | 61.2 | 63.6 | |
| TOTAL | 68.1% | 69.5% | 68.7% | 67.9% | 67.8% | 68.3% | 67.7% |
When reading this rate, you should be aware of the following:
- This information does not take account of the large number of students who choose to study at York for their first and second years, and then transfer to other post-secondary institutions to study professional disciplines such as medicine and dentistry.
- It also does not include students who entered a degree program and finished with a certificate.
- In addition, biography and history tell us many of Canada's most distinguished people have completed their degrees over more than seven years, having stopped out for numerous reasons such as commitment to family and service to the community.
- This information also does not capture the degree completion of the many students who transfer in to York University in the upper years of undergraduate study.
