Attached in the agenda in January’s Senate meeting, Queen’s released its 2025-26 Enrolment Report, outlining enrolment numbers for the year as of Nov. 1, 2025.
This report is done annually and outlines various statistics relating to the student body including total enrolment numbers, international student figures including country of origin, and more. A downward trend of total international students has continued, decreasing from a total of 3,381 students in 2024-25 to 3,199 in 2025-26.
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The report outlines that the University hosts 28,561 full time students, with 21,1193 in an undergraduate first-degree program and 3,863 in the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs. The school also houses 1,704 undergraduate part-time students, 1,389 graduate part-time students, and 931 undergraduate online students.
The first-year class had a 90.5 per cent incoming class average, with 90.7 per cent of incoming first year students 18 years old or younger on the first day of the fall term. In total, there were 59,533 first-year applications, and an intake of 5,477 students.
Undergraduate international students came from 96 different countries, with the top three countries of origins being China, India, and the United Kingdom, with international students reflecting 7.1 per cent of total undergraduate full-time enrolment.
Graduates’ students came from 99 different countries, with the top country of origin remaining China, followed by the United States and Iran. In total, international students made up 28 per cent of graduate enrolment.
According to the report, two per cent of first-year students identified as Indigenous, compared to 2.2 per cent last year. Indigenous applicants and intake also decreased to 671 applicants this year compared to 711 in 2024, along with an intake of 107 this year and 121 in 2024.
First-generation students, or students who’d be the first in their family to attend post-secondary, made up 4.2 per cent of this year’s enrolment. 3,369 self-identified first-generation students applied, with an intake of 232.
Looking back at students who came to Queen’s in 2023, 94.3 per cent of them continued into their second year, with the report outlining this figure is higher than the U15 group of Canadian Universities average of 91.6 per cent. Retention had some variance among different groups, with 89 per cent of international students, 91.6 per cent of Indigenous students, and 94.9 per cent of first-generation students remaining at Queen’s into their second year.
The full report also discloses intake numbers and detailed breakdowns by faculty, and that a total of $5,254,820 was awarded through major awards and bursaries.
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