Student Transitions into BC Public, BC Private and Non-BC Institutions. STP Research Results

This report from the Student Transitions Project (STP) features selected research findings on the transitions of high school graduates into B.C. public, B.C. private and non-B.C. post-secondary institutions. This study was enabled by a linkage of encrypted Personal Education Numbers (PENs) between the STP 2018 enrollment table to two other data sources: applicants for Student Financial Assistance (SFA) and recipients of Passport to Education (PTE) tuition fee credits. This report examines the post-secondary enrollment destinations, patterns and trends of the grade graduates of 2001/2002 to 2014/2015 into any B.C. public, B.C. private or non-B.C. institution in 2002/2003 through 2015/2016. This current study is a refresh of the 2010 research, but uses a larger and more recent data set comprised of fourteen cohorts of grade 12 graduates from 2001/2002 to 2014/2015. [For the 2010 report, "Student Transitions into Post-Secondary Education Sectors -- B.C. Public, B.C. Private and Non-B.C. Institutions: Ten Research Questions. Research Results from the Student Transitions Project," see ED592246.]