Facts and Figures

SSHRC provides annually updated statistical data about the Council, including its grants and scholarships budget. In the tables below, you will find facts and figures relating to:

• grants, fellowships and operations expenditures;
• the academic community;
• the peer review system; and
• applicants funded in the previous fiscal year.

Expenditures 2008-09¹

Category	($ Millions)
Total—Grants, fellowships and operations	$ 350.7
Grants and fellowships	$ 323.5
Operations, including the Employee Benefit Plan	$ 27.2

¹Excludes the Indirect Costs Program (administered by SSHRC on behalf of the three federal research granting agencies) and its operating budget.

Academic Community 2008-09¹

Category (all full-time)	Number
Faculty2	21,665
Enrolment3
Bachelor's	420,220
Master's	41,595
Doctoral	17,520
Graduate enrolment: MA, PhD and inclusions	62,075
Degrees granted	482,295
Degrees granted4
Bachelor's	139,765
Master's	24,035
Doctoral	1,930
Degrees granted	165,730

¹Source: SSHRC, based on Statistics Canada data. ²Faculty in 2006-07. ³Enrolment & Degrees grantedin 2007-08. ⁴Degrees granted in 2007-08.

Peer Review 2008-09

Category	Number
Committees	64
Volunteer adjudicators	565
External assessments received	5,875
All applications received (Including ineligible applications and fellowships B-list applications, and excluding CRC, NCE and ICP)1	13,000
Grants awarded	1,665
Fellowships awarded	2,655

¹CRC = Canada Research Chairs; NCE = Networks of Centres of Excellence; ICP = Indirect Costs Program.

Funded in Fiscal Year 2007-08

Category (social sciences)	Number
Faculty involved as principal or co-investigator in a SSHRC-supported project	6,110 (28%)
Master’s students who received a scholarship from SSHRC	1,340 (3%)
Doctoral students who received a fellowship or scholarship from SSHRC	2,646 (15%)