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CCCESD/CDDGC
Council of Chairs of Canadian Earth Science Departments
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CCCESD/CDDGC
Council of Chairs of Canadian Earth Science Departments
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This page reports the survey of Canadian Earth Science departments from the calendar year 2012. In total, 34 schools responded for this time frame. No data were received from Waterloo, York, UQaM, or Laurentian, and for them data from the last year of reporting were carried forward. Vancouver Island University and Thompson Rivers University joined CCCESD but only VIU submitted data for this survey. Full details of the response rate can be found on the page listing responses.
Figure 1 shows total undergraduate and graduate student enrolment. The steady rise in undergraduate program registrations from 2003 continues, at an even more accelerated rate. The Geology+Geophysics subset likewise continues to increase with over 3800 students now enrolled. Nationally, Canada has experienced an overall increase in undergraduate enrolments over the past 9 years, more than doubling the enrolments in Geology in Ontario and Western universities. Environmental Earth Science enrolments are also stable over the past eight years across Canada. The overall increase in enrolment from 2002-2012 is mirrored by the graduation numbers, now holding well over 1000 (Figure 3). This number should continue to increase substantially for the next two years.
Numbers of first year and service course registrations, Figure 2, have remained fairly stable in the 40000-43000 range for 8 years now, with the decline associated with the elimination of Geology courses at Guelph causing a one-year dip in 2010. These numbers are again near historical highs.
The number of registrations for MSc graduate work (Figure 1) continues above 1000 for the fourth year in a row, although enrolment appears now to have leveled off. The number of PhD registrations is holding steady at around 800.
Figure 4 presents an analysis of the gender distributions over the past 15 years for undergraduate, masters and doctoral level graduate students and faculty cohorts. Women comprise approximately 43% of the MSc level, and 39% of BSc program registrants. At the PhD level, the fraction of women continues to rise, now at 37% and likewise in faculty positions, at 19 to 20%.
Numbers of faculty, Post-Doctoral Associates/Fellows, and support staff are shown on Figure 5
and Figure 6. Faculty numbers have declined
slightly over the past four years; the removal of University of Guelph from the
dataset providing the initial drop, balanced in part by the addition of
Vancouver Island University and Thompson Rivers University to the dataset. The 20%
climb since 2000, likely primarily the result of CRC appointments, has now
leveled off. The steady decline of support staff
from 1988 to 2000 leveled off for the 2000-10 decade, but appears to have
resumed since 2010. The number of post-doctoral assistants,
has dropped by about 25% since 2010, after a two-year peak, with the result that
the ratio of support staff to faculty + post-docs has taken a substantial rise.
Regional analysis by year:
