Canadian Professional Schools Factsheets, 1994-95

Alexander D. Gregor is associate dean of the Faculty of Education at the
University of Manitoba and co-editor of Postsecondary Education in
Canada: The Cultural Agenda.

This annual publication provides information on a comprehensive range of
university-based professional and quasi-professional programs in all
Canadian universities, anglophone and francophone. Included are
architecture, audiology, business administration, dentistry,
engineering, health services administration, industrial relations,
journalism, law, library and information science, medicine, occupational
therapy, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, public administration,
social work, speech-language pathology, teacher education, and
veterinary medicine.

For each of these vocations, a one-page synopsis is provided for each
institution offering the program, which includes the degree(s) granted,
application deadlines (for the fall term), program format (e.g.,
semesters) and length, applicant-acceptance ratios, size of incoming
class, tuition fees, and costs of books and materials. In some cases the
synopsis also contains information on such matters as alternative
programs, special program characteristics, or accreditation.

The guide is intended only as a starting point, to give the prospective
student (or student counselor) a sense of what programs are available
and something of their relative costs and lengths; it does not provide
information or guidance on the matter of choosing a vocation, or to help
students decide among institutions on such criteria as the special
characteristics and emphases of the various programs, their relative
standing, or the prospects of living in the city or town in which they
are located. There are, however, a number of publications that do
provide that kind of information. The value of this particular source
could be enhanced by referring to that more-specialized literature.