Canadian universities and colleges are increasingly wooing international students to study
in Canada - especially those from China - to boost their bottom
line, a Statistics Canada study reveals.
China is the source of more than half of all international
students in Canada.
During the decade that closed at the end of the 2018-19 academic
year, the growth in the number of international students attending
Canadian universities and colleges far outstripped the growth in
the number of Canadian students.
"Enrolments for Canadian students in formal programs grew
by 10.9 per cent, from 1,486,602 to 1,648,923. Over the same
period, the number of international students more than tripled,
from 101,304 ... to 318,153."
