Overall Rating Platinum
Overall Score 86.17
Liaison James Gordon
Submission Date May 31, 2022

STARS v2.2

Thompson Rivers University
PA-8: Affordability and Access

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.02 / 4.00 Aaron Wiebe
Research Assistant
Sustainability
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Provide at least one of the following figures:

Percentage of need met, on average, for students who were awarded any need-based aid :
64

Percentage of students graduating without student loan debt:
52

Percentage of entering students that are low-income:
31

Graduation/success rate for low-income students:
80

Optional Fields

A brief description of notable policies or programs to make the institution accessible and affordable to low-income students:
TRU offers a comprehensive range of programs and initiatives to assist students in financing their educational and living costs. Financial support can be a combination of bursaries, scholarships, awards, work-study situations, co-op work terms, loans and grants.
Policies regarding student awards are found here: https://www.tru.ca/awards/award-policies.html

A brief description of notable policies or programs to support non-traditional students:
Non-traditional students have the opportunity to earn educational credits online through TRU Open Learning. It offers over 55 programs and 590 courses in a variety of flexible formats, including print-based, web-based, online and in-person. Courses and programs delivered by TRU-OL are fully accredited and recognized by other post-secondary institutions, so students can take even a single course (and transfer the credits to another institution) or complete an entire program. Further information is available from: http://www.tru.ca/distance/about/distance.html

Estimated percentage of students that participate in or directly benefit from the institution’s policies and programs to support low-income and non-traditional students:
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Website URL where information about the institution’s accessibility and affordability initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Statistics used for this point are sourced from the most granular data available to us, in this case percent calculations 2, 3 and 4 were sourced from provincial average data.

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