Alberta Post-Secondary Enrollment by Field of Study, 2011 CIP Codes

Full Load Equivalent (FLE) enrollment data for publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Alberta. The dataset uses CIP 2011 codes to standardize fields of study and provides a comparable metric across different programs and institutions. It is published by the Government of Alberta and was last updated on April 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze enrollment trends across academic disciplines based on CIP 2011 field-of-study codes.
• Compare student load distribution between institutions using the standardized Full Load Equivalent metric.
• Model future program capacity and funding needs based on historical enrollment patterns.
• Benchmark institutional performance by comparing FLE enrollment across similar CIP-coded programs.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized Full Load Equivalent metric, ensuring comparability across institutions and programs.
• Field of study is classified using CIP 2011 codes, a consistent instructional content classification system.
• Data is published by the Government of Alberta, an authoritative source for provincial education statistics.

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 its Alberta-only source.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 14:52:13.890316; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alberta, Canada