About a quarter of the new Canadian first-year students at Algonquin College’s Pembroke campus are from in and around the community, according to a presentation to city council.
Staff members from the college gave council an update on the school’s student body during the Tuesday, January 6th council meeting. The presentation claims 101 out of 398 new domestic first-year students at the college in the 2025 fall semester were from Pembroke.
95 more new first-years from the community are set to join the student body at the start of the 2026 spring semester in May.
The presentation adds that 17 per cent of the school’s students are international, with more than half of them coming from India.
Female students make up the majority of learners at the campus – 61 per cent compared to 37 per cent male and two per cent undeclared.
The presentation also includes an acknowledgement of two brand-new full-time programs at the campus: an eight-month electrical services certification and a nursing honours program.
(Written by Steve Berard)