The given chart gives information about how many percentages of foreign students studied in eight areas of Canada got universities’ graduation over a six-year period from 2001 to 2006.
Clearly, during these six years, there was a significant rise in percentages of overseas graduates in most of the observed places except for Alberta, which experienced a minus growth rate.
It can be seen that there was an increasing trend of students from other countries entered universities in most of these specific areas of Canada in 2006. Among those places, New Brunswick was on the top with nearly 12% of international graduates. On a contrary, Alberta experienced the lowest growth, which was equal to about one-third of that of New Brunswick.
A more detailed look at the graph reveals that between 2001 and 2006, the speed of percentage change in the number of graduates come from abroad was dramatically different and thus divided the eight provinces into three groups. In the first group, there was only British Columbia which had the fastest growth rate of just over 100%. That was followed by the second group which grew at the speed from approximately 10% (Quebec) to nearly 80% (New Brunswick). At last, Alberta was in the third group with a reduction of minus nearly 30%.