Growth In Enrollment In Canada Driven By Immigrant Students

Before the whole pandemic forced people to stay inside their homes and have as few encounters with other people as possible, Canada has been a very popular destination for many immigrant students. Nowadays, with the pandemic still existent, students and professors have to have their classes online to lessen the chances of meeting face-to-face. Despite that, plenty of people from around the world still do everything that they can to be enrolled in one of the educational institutions in Canada.

 

When things still have not changed because of the pandemic, a huge amount of immigrant students chose to study in Canada, especially for post-secondary studies. In fact, data has shown that immigrant students who enroll in post-secondary programs in the country are three times higher as compared to the locals of the country who do the same. This definitely is a reflection of how highly regarded Canadian education is, which is the reason why tons of immigrant students choose to take further studies here as compared to any other country in the world.

 

The impact of the pandemic

 

Statistics Canada, the official agency of the Canadian government that deals with data and such, has done a study recently and it focused on student enrollment before the pandemic. This was to take a look at how the pandemic caused by the coronavirus has impacted students in the country. The academic year 2018 - 2019 has been used as the benchmark for the study. The study also looked at the enrollment patterns in Canada as well as graduation. As per the data that they analyzed, all students have been affected by the pandemic but the immigrant students have taken the grunt.

 

For the academic year that was used as a benchmark, there were more than 2.1 million students who have been enrolled in the various universities and colleges in Canada. That number is higher by 1.8% as compared to the data for the 2017 - 2018 academic year. The study has shown that the increase was all because of the huge amount of immigrant students’ enrollment. There has been an increase of 16.2% in immigrant student enrollment while local students’ enrollment had gone down by 0.5%.

 

More data on student enrollment

 

Starting from the 2008 to 2009 academic year to the 2018 to 2019 academic year, the enrollment of immigrant students in Canada has definitely grown. The starting point was at around 101,000 immigrant students and the number reached to over 318,000 immigrant students after a decade. During that period, formal programs in universities and colleges in Canada had also grown by 10.9%. This definitely reflects just how much immigrant students prefer to have their education in this country, quite known for the highly quality of education that it has.

 

 

 

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