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5.4.7 Tuition – offshore tuition fees<br />
The following chart presents the benchmarking of fees received for students who are not residents in a<br />
British Columbia school district.<br />
SY2013/14 Benchmarking<br />
18.00%<br />
as a % of MEd provincial grants<br />
16.00%<br />
14.00%<br />
15.68%<br />
12.00%<br />
10.00%<br />
Lowest<br />
performing<br />
25%<br />
Median<br />
8.00%<br />
6.00%<br />
4.00%<br />
2.00%<br />
4.14%<br />
6.08%<br />
6.29%<br />
7.13%<br />
7.38%<br />
Best<br />
performing<br />
25%<br />
0.00%<br />
1.64% 1.81%<br />
23 (Central<br />
Okanagan)<br />
36 (Surrey) 39<br />
(Vancouver)<br />
44 (North<br />
Vancouver)<br />
38<br />
(Richmond)<br />
43<br />
(Coquitlam)<br />
41 (Burnaby) 45 (West<br />
Vancouver)<br />
$M 2.9 10.1 18.2 7.5 10.8 17.3 14.0 8.2<br />
Source: Ministry of Education<br />
Finding 5.6<br />
Of all BC school districts, VBE received the highest absolute revenue of $18M in offshore tuition in<br />
SY2013/14, but does not reach top quartile when revenue is taken as a percentage of MEd provincial<br />
grants.<br />
The opportunity to increase offshore tuition revenue is driven by two factors: price and enrolment.<br />
VBE’s tuition fees will increase to $13,000/year in SY<strong>2015</strong>/16 and to $14,000/year in SY2016/17,<br />
which should better align VBE with West Vancouver’s offshore tuition fee of $14,200/year for<br />
SY<strong>2015</strong>/16 and SY2016/17, leaving little opportunity to change tuition fees further, in the short term.<br />
On the enrolment side, VBE has experienced an increase of 50% in the number of international<br />
students, from SY2009/10 to SY2014/15. While, enrolment capacity has been reached at the more<br />
popular west side schools in the District, VBE is targeting an increase of 50 international students in<br />
East-side schools.<br />
The benchmarking suggests that if VBE were to achieve top quartile performance, revenues could<br />
increase by $2.1M, and if VBE were to achieve the performance of North Vancouver at 6.08% or West<br />
Vancouver at15.68%, revenues could increase between $8.6M - $50.8M. To limit reliance on funding<br />
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