TORONTO - More first-year undergraduate students will be attending classes in Ontario universities this fall than ever before.
The Council of Ontario Universities says more than 90,000 students have confirmed their university acceptance letters.
That is almost 2,000 more than the double cohort year of 2003, when students in Grades 12 and 13 graduated at the same time.
The council also says in a release that the higher numbers parallel a trend of increased demand for post-secondary graduates in the workforce.
It says two out of three new jobs require post-secondary education, and from 2004 to 2010, employment growth for university graduates outpaced all other levels of education.
