Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs paid four per cent more on average in tuition fees this fall for the 2010-11 academic year than they did a year earlier.
Statistics Canada reports the increase is slightly higher than last year's, when tuition fees rose 3.6 per cent.
On average, undergraduate students paid $5,138 in tuition fees for 2010-11 compared with $4,942 a year earlier.
Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index increased 1.8 per cent between July 2009 and July 2010.
Tuition fees rose in all but three provinces -- they were unchanged in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, and declined for a third straight year in Nova Scotia, this time by 4.5 per cent.
Elsewhere, tuition increases ranged from 1.5 per cent in Alberta to 5.4 per cent in Ontario.
