{"id":25229,"date":"2025-10-28T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25229"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:04:28","slug":"canada-cuts-study-permits-for-2025-heres-what-it-means-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25229","title":{"rendered":"Canada cuts study permits for 2025, here\u2019s what it means for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Canada\u2019s approval of new international student permits has plunged to its lowest level in ten years, even deeper than during the COVID-19 shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>According to new data from ApplyBoard, Ottawa\u2019s strict caps on post-secondary intakes are driving the decline. The platform projects that the federal government will approve just 80,000 new study permits in 2025, a 62% drop from 2024 and far below pre-pandemic levels. By comparison, Canada approved around 92,000 new permits at the height of the pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Rural Indians join rush to study abroad as prospects dim at home<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot [ApplyBoard&#8217;s &#8211; Canada&#8217;s Student Cap Causes Greater Declines Than Pandemic]<\/p>\n<p>ApplyBoard warned that the sharp decline will make 2025 \u201cone of the most competitive years ever\u201d for students hoping to begin studies in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Colleges are bearing the brunt of the cap, with extensions now making up nearly 80% of all study permits, and fewer than 30,000 new approvals expected for college programs nationwide. Universities, meanwhile, show modest recovery, with approval rates rising from 30% in May to 55% in August, but opportunities remain limited.<\/p>\n<p>Read: It takes a village\u2014but where is Pakistan\u2019s?<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that students from India, the Philippines, and several African nations face the lowest approval rates, threatening campus diversity across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, students already in Canada will account for nearly two-thirds of all post-secondary permits issued this year, underscoring how extensions have overtaken new approvals.<\/p>\n<p>If current trends persist, ApplyBoard projects that Canada\u2019s total international student population could shrink by up to 50% in 2026, as fewer new students replace graduating cohorts.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the slowdown, 95% of international students surveyed by ApplyBoard said they still aspire to study in Canada, citing its academic standards, post-graduation work opportunities, and multicultural environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile short-term challenges persist, student confidence in Canada\u2019s long-term value remains remarkably strong,\u201d the report concluded.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s approval of new international student permits has plunged to its lowest level in ten years, even deeper than during the COVID-19 shutdown. According to new data from ApplyBoard, Ottawa\u2019s strict caps on post-secondary intakes are driving the decline. The platform projects that the federal government will approve just 80,000 new study permits in 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}