Ontario to spend $750M on STEM programs at universities, colleges

Liam Casey · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 22, 2025 4:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Ontario says it volition put $750 cardinal to boost backing for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs astatine colleges and universities crossed the province.

Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn says the backing volition beryllium utilized to money 20,500 STEM spots per year.

Quinn says the concern successful students volition assistance make a much resilient economy, which has been hurting precocious with U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating commercialized war.

Colleges and universities person struggled financially for years nether Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government, which froze tuition for home students, and much precocious owed to the national government's headdress connected survey permits for planetary students.

Last year, the provincial authorities ponied up $1.3 cardinal to assistance stabilize the sector, which was astir fractional the magnitude colleges and universities said they needed.

The state says the wealth for STEM programs volition beryllium disposable arsenic soon arsenic institutions motion their 2025 to 2030 operating backing agreements.