Data on the financial position of Ontario's universities are provided. Among items covered by the report's 27 statistical tables and 18 graphs are: expenditures per client served, 1977-1987; percentage increase in provincial operating grants and total budgetary expenditures, 1977-1988; growth of Ontario government expenditures and grants to universities relative to the growth of the Ontario Gross Domestic Product, 1977-1988; interprovincial comparisons of operating grants to universities per full-time equivalent student; provincial operating grants for universities per $1,000 of provincial personal income, 1977-1985; interprovincial comparisons of total operating expenses per client; percentage of universities' general operating income, 1986-1987; estimated tax capacity, tax revenue, and tax effort, 1987-1988; capital expenditures and borrowings, Province of Ontario, 1977-1988; salaries and wages, Ontario universities, 1977-1986; comparison of benefit costs, 1977-1988; index of expenditure on library acquisitions; buildings, land and site services, total expenses by province, 1986-1987; and costs of sponsored research and the operating base, 1977-1988. (SW)