{"id":135652,"date":"2024-03-04T09:11:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/canadian-public-funded-colleges-experience-rapid-growth-in-international-student-enrollment\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:11:15","slug":"canadian-public-funded-colleges-experience-rapid-growth-in-international-student-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canadian-public-funded-colleges-experience-rapid-growth-in-international-student-enrollment\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Public Funded Colleges Experience Rapid Growth in International Student Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A handful of publicly-funded colleges in Ontario \u2013 not private colleges – are now being blamed for much of the spike in international student<\/span><\/a> enrollments that has contributed to rising housing costs and a strain on Canadian infrastructure.<\/p>\n

According to a CBC News<\/i> analysis of data, all but one of the 30 Canadian colleges and universities that granted the most study permits last year was a publicly-funded, post-secondary institution.<\/p>\n

Ten Ontario colleges, all of them funded with taxpayer dollars, accounted for almost 30 per cent of study permits in the country over the past three years, reports the Canadian broadcaster.<\/p>\n

And 12 publicly-funded colleges in Ontario more than tripled their annual study permit numbers in the five years that ended on Dec. 31, 2023.<\/p>\n

Michael Sangster, chief executive officer of the National Association of Career Colleges, isn\u2019t surprised by the results of the CBC News investigation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOf the 599,355 international study permit applications approved or extended by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) in 2023, just 4.4 per cent were for regulated career colleges who are members of the industry association I lead,\u201d wrote Sangster in an op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen<\/i> newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis represents a proportional decrease over the past three years, as my member institutions clocked in at 5.2 per cent and 4.8 per cent of new and extended study permit approvals in 2021 and 2022 respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

The findings of the national broadcaster\u2019s investigation also fly in the face of statements made by Canadian politicians that private-sector colleges have been the primary drivers of the spike in the number of international students in Canada.<\/p>\n

Immigration Minister Marc Miller has reportedly gone so far as to call these private colleges bad actors that are the \u201cequivalent of puppy mills that are just churning out diplomas.\u201d<\/p>\n

While still blaming some private colleges, the immigration minister has since admitted that at least some public colleges have also played their part.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the really, really bad actors are in the private sphere, and those need to be shut down, but there is responsibility across the board,\u00a0\u00bb Miller has reportedly said. \u201cWe just need the provinces in question, in this case Ontario, to assume their responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

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