Quebec tuition hike: Concordia says it could lose 90% of out-of-province students
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Montreal’s Concordia University is warning of “devastating financial implications” if Quebec moves forward with a plan to double tuition for out-of-province students starting next fall.
In an internal message to the university community on Tuesday, Concordia president Graham Carr claimed the new $17,000 tuition for non-Quebec Canadian students — among the highest rates in the country — will price the school out of the domestic market, potentially gutting out-of-province undergraduate registration by up to 90 per cent.
As a result, Carr said the university is staring down an $8-million revenue loss when the hike takes effect for new students in the 2024-2025 academic year. After four years, as more incoming students are subject to the new tuition rate, the annual revenue loss could reach $32 million, he said.
“Clearly, the impact of the government’s new policies will dramatically affect our financial situation and shrink our student population,” Carr’s message reads. A “painstaking, program-by-program assessment” of the financial impact of the tuition increase is ongoing, but “whatever the detailed analyses eventually show us, the ramifications will be far-reaching and complex for our operations,” he said.
