[abduhl]

Relevant to this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/international-student-cap-i...

“Canada is on track to host around 900,000 international students this year, Miller said in an interview that aired Saturday on CBC's The House. That's more than at any point in Canada's history and roughly triple the number of students who entered the country a decade ago.”

There is a perverse incentive to attend what amount to for-profit scams in Canada owing to their immigration policies giving preference to folks with Canadian degrees.

[TheRealPomax]

Sounds like someone's not been paying attention to how the international student game works. If you think luring international students by for-profit academia is a Canada thing, you have some learning to do.

Also the idea that Canada can retain folks with a Canadian degree is hilarious: the location factor for backwater rural Washington is higher than the location factor for Vancouver or Toronto: you think those students are gonna stay in Canada after they graduate instead of moving South and getting paid twice the amount for the same position? Because if you do, that's another bit where you have some learning to do.

[abduhl]

You are unfamiliar with the Canadian international student game. For reference, the Unites States has roughly the same number of international students as Canada (~1 million) at 10x the population. This large number has created an industry of “strip mall” for-profit colleges that award degrees which provide a preferred path to citizenship because Canada’s immigration system offers additional points for having a Canadian degree (technically any degree but a Canadian degree is automatically qualified while foreign degrees are not). These people are often not looking to get an education and then get a job in America - they are often trying to immigrate and the cost of attending the Canadian college is just part of the paperwork for them.

America’s immigration system, in contrast, is generally merit-blind. You do not get extra points for a degree and so there is no incentive to pursue a qualified American degree. The US path for an international student seeking citizenship is based on work after the degree: sponsorship by an employer. The Canadian path for an international student IS the degree.

See also https://macleans.ca/longforms/fraud-canada-education-interna... and https://www.politicstoday.news/politics-today/ottawa-signals... in case you care to do some learning of your own.

[hungryforcodes]

...or back to their original countries with the prestige of a foreign degree.