Nova Scotia University and College Operating Grants, 2008-2026

From the 2008-09 to 2025-26 fiscal years, this dataset details the annual operating grants provided to Nova Scotia's publicly funded universities and the Nova Scotia Community College. It includes grant values in current dollars and records any time-value discounts applied due to alternative payment arrangements. The data is published by the Government of Nova Scotia on the open_canada platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in public funding for post-secondary education based on annual grant values.
• Modeling the financial impact of alternative payment arrangements on institutions based on recorded time-value discounts.
• Comparing funding timelines and amounts between universities and the community college based on the different fiscal year ranges.

Strengths

• Covers a long time series, with university data spanning 18 fiscal years from 2008-09 to 2025-26.
• Includes a specific financial variable: the value of time-value discounts applied to grants.
• Published by a government source (Government of Nova Scotia) under an open license (OGL-CA-2.0).

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 temporal and geographic bias inherent to a single Canadian province.

Provenance

Source

Government of Nova Scotia

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official government financial records.

Time Range

Universities: 2008-09 to 2025-26; NSCC: 2012-13 to 2025-26.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 15:00:54.355061; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada