About 300 kilometres northwest of its main campus in Kamloops, B.C., Thompson Rivers University (TRU) operates a satellite location in the small city of Williams Lake. The school's president says the site loses $14,000 every single day.
Many universities in Canada are facing a financial crunch, and must determine whether to retain secondary campuses, which are often small and inefficient. These locations may serve a limited number of students and offer only a few programs.
At Memorial University, based in St. John's, NL, leaders made a tough decision in January to close the satellite Signal Hill campus to help balance the budget. Other schools have been more circumspect. Algoma University, located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says it plans to keep its branch campus open in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, although enrolment there has plunged since the flood of international students coming to Canada has turned into a trickle.
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