Sunday, 16 October 2011

Why Aren't Young Men Going to University?

One of the issues I lived with for 11 years as the admissions director for University of Toronto’s MBA program was where are the women? Like most MBA programs, we struggled to achieve more of a gender balance in the incoming class.

Conversely, when I was researching undergraduate programs with my son, I was surprised to see most universities reported having more female students than male.

What is not known is if there are fewer applications from young men or are the women applying with higher averages.

Read the full story here Canadian Universities Net

After I wrote the Canadian Universities Net story, I saw an article on ESPN wondering if the increase in boys playing football and possible hits to the heads leads to lower grades and lower percentage of young men in post-secondary education.

Read ESPN article here
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