The University of Guelph has chopped 16 undergraduate programs, including four of its five physics courses.
It leaves hundreds of incoming first-year and masters students facing re-evaluation of their university studies.
The university said the programs have been “paused”/
The physics cuts come despite a recent review that gave them a high rating.
About 360 students received offers to the affected programs. The university said the programs that have been paused had low or declining enrolment; many are in the sciences.
Gwen Chapman, provost and vice-president, said new programs have been added over the last decade and “as we start doing new things we need to stop doing some of the things that we're doing because we can't just keep doing more all of the time."
