Study Permit Statistics: DLIs vs Country Statistics, and Common Reasons for Refusals

My curiosity about the data sets in the form of statistical tables stemmed from a presumption that we all had — that the richer the country of origin or citizenship, the better your chances are when applying for a study permit to come to Canada. These assumptions, as basic as they were, were not really objectively backed up by data.

As such, in the last few years, I have been requesting data from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). One of the interesting finds: the volume of received and approved study permit applications, broken down by country, and then broken even further down by designated learning institution (DLI).

The outcomes of each DLI’s pool of international students’ applications for study permits can be explained by various variables. This slide deck does not aim to provide the reasons why one DLI does better than the other.

Instead, this slide deck showcases a set of pre-selected DLIs across Canada that are of interest. It is therefore a very subjective list. Nevertheless, it still provides us a glimpse as to which countries these DLIs source the majority of their international students from, the approval and refusal rates of these DLIs across a given span of time, and the common reason for refusal of study permit applications by select countries.

The slide deck is accessible here.

This slide deck was presented on Mark Holthe’s YouTube channel, Canadian Immigration Institute. You can watch the video here:

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