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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I would love to see actual stats on this though. I know a lot of people from outside Ottawa who studied here and stuck around. Even if just 1/10 stay in Quebec, it's a net gain. They have to figure out what's more important, growing the labour market or saving on domestic ROC tuition? Or, their actual goal, keeping Anglophones (or anyone who's not a white, Catholic Francophone) out of the Province.
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I don't think you have the same dynamic with McGill in Montreal as you do with students remaining in Ottawa after their studies. The francophone universities in Montreal probably have much higher retention rates.
I remember seeing the numbers for the province's four med schools, and Montréal, Laval and Sherbrooke all had over 90% of graduates working in the province, whereas McGill had a majority of grads (60%?) leaving the province almost immediately after pocketing their diploma.
Now, it may indeed be 1 non-Quebec student in 10 at McGill who stays in Quebec and makes their life here, but even so why would it be illegitimate for the Quebec government to want to boost the number of graduates we hold onto overall?
It's our investment after all.