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Concordia University reports 30% drop in enrolment following Quebec tuition hike

Montreal’s Concordia University is reporting a nearly 30 per cent drop in new registrations of out-of-province students following a tuition hike announced last year by the Quebec government.

The university says enrolment of international students has dropped by 11 per cent compared to last year.

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The provincial government has increased tuition for out-of-province students to $12,000 from $9,000 as part of an effort to protect the French language, but Quebec’s two largest English-language universities are fighting the change.

McGill University says it won’t have its final enrolment numbers until October, but it said last December it was seeing a 20 per cent drop in out-of-province applicants.

The two universities are suing the Quebec government over the new tuition policy, which they say constitutes discrimination.

Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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