{"id":137928,"date":"2024-04-02T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/canadas-immigration-strategy-boosts-education-levels-among-newcomers\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:00:27","slug":"canadas-immigration-strategy-boosts-education-levels-among-newcomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canadas-immigration-strategy-boosts-education-levels-among-newcomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Immigration Strategy Boosts Education Levels Among Newcomers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigration programs<\/a><\/span> that seek to attract highly skilled and highly educated foreign nationals to Canada have been so successful that racialized women now hold more bachelor\u2019s degrees than any other demographic group in the country, reports Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2021, for the first time, the proportion of women in most racialized groups with a bachelor’s degree or higher, at 48.4 per cent, rose slightly above that of racialized men, at 46.5 per cent,\u201d reports the demographic and statistical services agency.<\/p>\n

Racialized women are now not only more likely to hold bachelor\u2019s degrees than their male counterparts, racialized men, but they are also far more educated than the average Canadian.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2021 Census of Population<\/i> results showed that most racialized groups generally have higher levels of education than the total population in Canada,\u201d notes Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gap in educational attainment between the racialized population and the total population widened from 2006 to 2021. In 2021, racialized women and recent racialized immigrants – who landed in Canada in the 10 years leading up to the 2021 census – were among the most educated in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While only 32.9 per cent of Canadians aged between 25 and 64 hold a bachelor\u2019s degree, 47.5 per cent of racialized people the same age in the country hold these undergrad degrees.<\/p>\n

Blacks and those immigrants from southeast Asia were the only racialized people in Canada in 2021 to be less likely to hold a bachelor\u2019s degree. Among southeast Asians in Canada, 30.5 per cent held bachelor\u2019s degrees and so did 32.4 per cent of Blacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong racialized groups, South Asian, Chinese and West Asian populations had the largest percentage-point increases (of people holding bachelor\u2019s degrees) from 2006 to 2021,\u201d notes Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proportion of the South Asian population with a bachelor’s degree or higher increased from 36.5 per cent in 2006 to 55.2 per cent in 2021, up 18.7 percentage points.\u201d<\/p>\n

Economic immigration programs which give applicants points under the Comprehensive Ranking System<\/span><\/a> (CRS) for educational attainment, have been a big driver of this trend towards more highly-educated immigrants in Canada.<\/p>\n

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