International Students in Canada - CBIE

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International students in Canada support the excellence and innovation of Canada's education and cultural landscape, and are a vital building block for internationalization at Canadian

in traditional top receiving countries as well as lack of access to stable and quality

institutions and in Canadian society.

education in their countries

of citizenship have compelled

The following brief uses open1 Due to varied and evolving push a growing number of students

as well as specially obtained

and pull factors, international to seek alternative study

data to provide a snapshot

students are choosing Canada destinations. Canada continues

of international students in

as their study destination

to be perceived globally

Canada in 2017, illuminating

in unprecedented numbers.

as a country of welcome

key trends with regard to

Uncertainty and higher cost

and stability in addition to

level of study, province or

territory of study and country

of citizenship of international students in Canada.

Figure 1: International students in Canada by year, all levels of study (2014-2017)

INTERNATIONAL

500,000

494,525

STUDENT MOBILITY

400,000

410,400

As shown in figure 1, in

300,000

326,120

350,130

2017 there were 494,525

international students in

200,000

Canada at all levels of study2,3,4.

This represents a 17% increase over the previous year, and a

100,000

34% increase between 2014

0

and 2017.

2014

2015

2016

2017

1

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Figure 2: Top higher education host destinations worldwide (2017)

United States

United Kingdom

501,045

China

442,773

Canada

370,975

Australia

327,606

France

323,933

Russia

296,178

Germany

251,542

Japan

171,122

Spain

94,962

Source: Project Atlas, 2017

1,078,822

offering quality and affordable education5, making Canada an attractive choice for prospective international students.

Project Atlas details top study destinations of international students worldwide in 2017, bringing Canada's market position into clearer view (see Figure 2). While Canada's top two competitors for international students are the United States and United Kingdom, Canada competes more directly with Australia and France as an international study destination. In 2017, for the first time, Canada leapt ahead of both Australia and France for total market

Figure 3: Regional origin of international students in Canada (2017)

United States of America 3%

Latin America and Carribean

7%

Europe 8%

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

2%

Middle East and North Africa 7%

East Asia 40%

South Asia 27%

Africa 6%

Oceania and South Pacific

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