Mainstream colleges and institutes were also asked to provide an estimate of the percentage of their total student body which self-identifies as Aboriginal:

• Large colleges located in Canada’s largest metropolitan cities generally reported having 1 to 5 percent of their student population self-identify as Aboriginal, with the exception of Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton which reported 15 percent of their students self-identify as Aboriginal.
• For the Western provinces the ranges varyas follows:

  For colleges in the Atlantic overall colleges estimated that 1 percent of the student body self-identify as Aboriginal, however, the Labrador campuses of the College of the North Atlantic reported a 60 percent Aboriginal student body.

  British Columbia: Vancouver area: Vancouver Community College reported 1 percent, and Kwantlen University College and Langara College reported 2 percent of their student population self-identifying as Aboriginal; Vancouver Island: Camosun College reported 5 percent and North Island College 10 percent; B.C. interior: College of New Caledonia 14 percent, College of the Rockies 5 percent, and University College of the Fraser Valley 2 percent, Northwest Community College 40 percent.

  Alberta: Edmonton: Norquest College 25 percent, NAIT 15 percent, Grant MacEwan College 7 percent Calgary : SAIT Polytechnic 2 percent, Bow Valley College 10 percent Portage College 57 percent Keyano College 20 percent Lakeland College 10 percent

  Saskatchewan: SIAST: 18 percent Regional Colleges: Parkland College 35 percent, Cypress Hills College 15 percent, Cumberland College 6 percent, North West Regional College 60 percent

  Manitoba: Red River College: 16 percent Assiniboine Community College: 26 percent

  Ontario: Northern Ontario: Sault College, Cambrian College and Canadore College are all at 10 percent, and Confederation College 20 percent South/Central Ontario: Mohawk College 3 percent, Seneca College 4 percent, Fanshawe College 4 percent, Lambton College 5 percent, Georgian College 7 percent