A Different Ontario

Only three out of five university graduates in the province have a degree from an Ontario institution, pointing to the importance of inter- provincial and international migration as a means of developing the province’s human capital. [...] The proportion of immigrants with a university degree has risen steadily, from 27.6 per cent among those who arrived in the 1980s, to 38.7 per cent among those who arrived in the 1990s, to 50.0 per cent among those who arrived in the 2000s, to 52.3 per cent for those who arrived in the four years prior to the 2016 census. [...] Overall, only three in five (60.6 per cent) university graduates in the Ontario working age population (age 25 to 64) obtained their degree in Ontario – an indication of the importance of measures to attract talent from outside the province to the success of Ontario’s economy.1 The census data on education also highlight two important attainment gaps. [...] Younger Métis adults are more than twice as likely as their older counterparts to have earned a university degree.2 2 Note, however, that comparisons of the Métis population in Ontario over time are complicated by the fact that there has been an increase in the proportion of individuals with Métis ancestry who are choosing to identify as Métis in the census. [...] In the case of most of the groups with lower university attainment among the youngest age cohort, the situation of men and women is different.