NB-IRDT Graduate Retention Series

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New Brunswick invests substantially in educating its students. These reports examine graduate retention rates and factors that may be influencing New Brunswickers' decisions to stay and work in the province.

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    Graduate retention in New Brunswick: Supplementary report on graduates in social work
    (New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training, 2023-05) Jones, Bethany; McDonald, Ted; Miah, Pablo
    In January 2023, the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training released a report called Graduate retention in New Brunswick: 2019 and 2020 cohort update (Balzer et al.), 1 which gave an overview of post-secondary graduates’ retention patterns, disaggregated by their field of study. While this provided many valuable insights into graduates’ education and mobility decisions, the fields of study examined were purposely broad. This allowed for comparison between graduates of programs in arts, science, business, and healthcare, for instance, but it did not allow for a narrower focus on the outcomes of graduates of specific fields of interest. In New Brunswick, social work is one such field of interest. The retention of social work graduates 2 is an important topic in the public sphere, as social work has been identified as the second highest profession in need of a recruitment and retention strategy in New Brunswick, and pre-pandemic projections suggest the province could have a shortage of 272 social workers by 2030 (New Brunswick Association of Social Workers [NBASW], 2022). Given the increased demand for social workers since the start of COVID-19, this shortage could be even greater (NBASW, 2022). This study focuses on the retention of social work graduates in New Brunswick and acts as a supplement to the earlier work by Balzer et al. (2023), using the same data and methodology but further breaking down the field of study category to examine social work specifically. The findings in this report provide an overview of social work graduates’ demographic backgrounds and mobility decisions and can help guide public policy discussions around education and training strategies to retain social workers in NB. 1 Graduate retention in New Brunswick: 2019 and 2020 cohort update (Balzer et al., 2023) 2 In this report, we refer to graduates of university social work programs and college social service community worker programs as “social work graduates.”
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    University graduate retention in New Brunswick: 2022 graduate cohort update
    (New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training, 2025-06) Beykzadeh, Ali; Jones, Bethany; McDonald, Ted; Miah, Pablo
    In 2021, the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT) released the first report in a Graduate retention in New Brunswick series. Each year, we use the newest data available to answer a list of research questions, highlighting how results have changed since the last report in the series was released. We ask, for instance: • How many students graduate from publicly funded universities in NB, and what percentage remain in NB over time? • How do results differ for students from NB, international students and students from other provinces in Canada? • Are graduates from certain fields of study more likely to remain in NB than others? • Which university has the highest graduate retention rates, and why? This is the fourth update in the series, and it represents the first time that results for college and university graduates are being presented separately – due to differences in data availability timelines. This report updates our most recent work (which incorporated results for students who graduated in 2021) by presenting annual results for students who graduated from universities in NB between 2010 and 2022. Results for college graduates are forthcoming in a separate report.