In academic year 2011-12 there were 888 students who had dropped out of Mcast courses at their various levels.
Answering a parliamentary question by Labour MP Gino Cauchi, Education Minister Dolores Cristina said this compared with 159 in 2001-02 and 230, 309, 336, 424, 398, 654, 579, 811 and 713 in the respective subsequent years up to 2010-11.