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SYDNEY — Cape Breton University’s enrolment figures are among the best in the region, with the highest increase in full-time undergraduate students this academic year.
CBU’s one-year full-time undergraduate growth of 7.5 per cent, reported to the the Atlantic Association of Universities, is larger than that of any other post-secondary school in Atlantic Canada and can be greatly attributed to their campus in Cairo, Egypt.
Vice-president of development Keith Brown said there are 3,558 students studying at the university, both at the Sydney campus and abroad.
There has been a 48.1 per cent increase of international students. Thirteen per cent of that increase is found at the Sydney campus, where there are approximately 318 international students in total.
The greater increase is within the CBU fourth-year studies available at Canadian International College, Cairo.
“The largest portion of the increase in international students, or overall students, has come through the Cairo campus. The program is in Egypt, but CIC Cairo is attracting students from 22 countries in the Middle East and in North Africa. So you’re not only attracting students from Egypt, you’re attracting them from the entire region,” said Brown.
There are approximately 1,600 students at the campus in Cairo, of which 450 are Cape Breton University students. In addition, 50 students from Egypt have transferred to Sydney to finish their degree.
Egyptians are now the second-largest source of international students at CBU, when only a few years ago there was a handful of those students.
The largest source of international students at the Sydney campus continue to come from China, though there are students from more than 40 countries in the world and 10 provinces.
Brown said there is a slight increase in new student registrations this year. In addition, CBU also recorded a significant jump in graduate students with an increase of 13.1 per cent, third best among Atlantic universities.
CBU has continued to be the Atlantic leader in aboriginal programming and services, with an increase of 22.6 per cent in aboriginal students for the 2008-2009 school year.
Students enrolment from Cape Breton remains the most important market for the university — about 65 per cent of the student body is from Cape Breton Island, said Brown.
The second greatest source of domestic students comes from Ontario, another area of growth.

source: Cape Breton Post