Alberta High School to Post-Secondary Transition Rates by Service Region

Post-Secondary Transition Rate (4 year) is the percentage of students in the grade 10 cohort who have entered a post-secondary-level program at an Alberta post-secondary institution or registered in an Alberta apprenticeship program within four years of entering grade 10, adjusted for attrition. The data is published by the Government of Alberta and was last updated on March 18, 2026. An estimate of out-of-province post-secondary enrollment is applied based on the numbers of funded Alberta students attending institutions out of province.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional disparities in post-secondary enrollment based on service region data.
• Model student cohort outcomes based on the four-year transition rate metric.
• Evaluate the impact of apprenticeship program uptake on overall transition rates.

Strengths

• Data is adjusted for student attrition, providing a more accurate outcome measure.
• Includes an estimate for out-of-province enrollment, broadening the coverage of student pathways.
• Published by the Government of Alberta, suggesting an official administrative source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the province of Alberta.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

Likely derived from administrative education records and cohort tracking.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:03:03.407937; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alberta, Canada