New Canada Study Permit Allocations and Approvals 2024

Last Updated On 6 April 2024, 12:52 AM EDT (Toronto Time)

The immigration minister of Canada, Marc Miller, released an official statement outlining that they are targeting to approve a total of 235,600 new study permits in 2024.

Furthermore, 392,667 is the cap set for new study permit applications (excluding primary and secondary school students and master’s or doctoral degree students) and based on a 60% approval rate.

The minister also released a detailed province-wise provincial attestation letter and study permit approval allocation for 2024 (listed in the later part of this article).

Overall, Canada is targeting a total of 485,000 approved study permits for 2024. This includes around 97,000 study permit extensions from within Canada.

In total, the immigration department anticipates 606,000 study permit (including extensions and other variants) applications to be received in 2024.

So capping is set at an overall total of 606,000 study permit applications for all the study permit application types, including primary and secondary school students and master’s or doctoral degree students.

Out of this, excluding primary and secondary school students and master’s or doctoral degree students, nearly 392,667 are set out for new study permit applications.

At the time of the new cap announced by Marc Miller in January, the official IRCC news release clearly stated that those pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees and elementary and secondary education are not included in the cap.

However, it seems that IRCC has now set the cap on all the study permit application types.

Province-Wise Study Permit Allocations 2024

Below are the study permit allocations and expected approvals for study permit applications, excluding primary and secondary school students and master’s or doctoral degree students.

	Allocation After Initial Adjustment			Final Allocation After Top-Ups for PTs with Approval Rate Below 60%
Province / Territory	PT Allocations (A)	Projected SPs Approved (B)	% Change from 2023	Top-Up (C)	Revised PT Allocations with Top-Up (A+C)	Projected SPs Approved (same as B)
Alberta	40,894	24,537	10%	N/A	40,894	24,537
British Columbia	83,000	49,800	-18%	N/A	83,000	49,800
Manitoba	15,233	9,140	-10%	3,420	18,652	9,140
New Brunswick	9,279	5,567	-10%	5,372	14,651	5,567
Newfoundland and Labrador	2,365	1,419	10%	788	3,153	1,419
Northwest Territories	333	200	4900%	N/A	333	200
Nova Scotia	12,906	7,744	-10%	7,472	20,378	7,744
Nunavut	333	200	6567%	N/A	333	200
Ontario	235,000	141,000	-41%	N/A	235,000	141,000
Prince Edward Island	2,004	1,202	-10%	308	2,312	1,202
Quebec	72,716	43,629	10%	45,202	117,917	43,629
Saskatchewan	12,043	7,226	10%	3,011	15,054	7,226
Yukon	417	250	205%	N/A	417	250
Total	486,523	291,914	-28%	65,572	552,095	291,914

Canada Study Permit Capping Model 2024

As per the minister’s statement, the national cap on international students is based on net zero growth, meaning it is equal to the number of study permits that expire this year.

This indicates that the number of international students entering Canada in 2024 should be equal to the number of students whose permits expire this year.

The aim for 2024 is to obtain 485,000 authorized study permits.

IRCC allocated the modified number of study permit applications, 393,000, depending on the population share of each province and territory.

According to this scenario, some provinces and territories would have more students in 2024 than in 2023, while others would have fewer new students.

IRCC altered the allocation for provinces that would get more international students in 2024 than in 2023 based on population share, limiting growth to 10% over 2023 levels.

For provinces that would receive fewer international students in 2024 than in 2023, the IRCC altered their allocation to mitigate the negative impact in the first year while also supporting broader regional immigration goals.

IRCC also increased allocations for provinces with approval rates lower than 60%. The top-ups will assist provinces with lower approval rates in meeting their targeted number of authorized study permits by 2024.

As a result, about 552,000 study permit applications have been assigned to provinces and territories within the national limit.

These allocations are estimated to result in about 292,000 accepted study permits, a 28% reduction from 2023 for the groups covered by the cap.

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