How to study in Canada

There are 96 universities and many colleges in Canada with thousands of courses on offer. Go through what you’d like to study and read the prerequisites.

Note, they ALL require your language skills to be confirmed by one of these organizations:

Language tests to study in Canada

• Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) assessment. ...
• MOST COMMON - International English Language Testing System (IELTS) – Academic. ...
• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) ...
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) – Academic.”

Find your course here:

https://www.universitystudy.ca/search-programs/

Apply and you may be provisionally accepted. 

For full acceptance, you MUST deposit the first year’s worth of fees and costs of living to a Canadian bank as instructed by the admissions office. (Assume you need to pay from CAD 32 k to CAD 65 k. This includes the mandatory cost of living amount of CAD 22 k.)

This is one example of such a bank account, but there are five major banks offering this service.

https://startright.scotiabank.com/student-gic.html

You will now qualify for a time- and school-determined study permit here.

Study in Canada as an international student

After your studies, you will qualify for this.

After studying for a minimum of 8 months and graduating from your course, you qualify for a similar length Work Permit. This is NOT renewable, and it is very unlikely that you can stay in Canada after that has ended. 

If you wish to stay, live, and work in Canada and possibly qualify for Permanent Residence after your studies, you must study for a MINIMUM of TWO years and GRADUATE.

Then, you qualify for a fixed length three-year NON-RENEWABLE Post Graduation Work Permit.

After a total of five years or more of studying and working in Canada, you MAY qualify for Permanent Residence.

(None of this applies if you leave your school before completion. - If you do, your study permit is revoked, and you MUST leave Canada without delay.)

Stay in Canada after graduation

Should you not complete your studies, or keep on working without a proper work permit after graduation, you are in deep trouble.

Some think that coming to study and soon quit school is a way to bypass Canadian immigration rules, It is not, anyone who tries will soon be arrested and deported. 

A foreign student in the USA said

Jeremie Musa on Quora said on Oct. 8, 2019:

I’m the living testimony of the so-called American ungratefulness: 

“Congratulations on your degree, YOU MAY LEAVE NOW.” 

After living, studying and investing a great deal of my life in the USA for the last 8.5 years, I had no job opportunity whatsoever.

 I found myself jobless while having spent over $60k just to get a bachelor's degree. 

I went to one of the top 50 most ranked universities in the USA (University of Minnesote), I participated in most of the well-organized career fairs, build up a resume yet without professional experience, put myself out there, applied to countless jobs, attended numerous interviews. ALAS, all I could get was an email stating: “Thank You for your interest in (company name), however, we have not retained your application…” 

Without a job offer, I could not stay after graduation or even stay longer to keep my search up.

I almost told myself that I was useless and worthless. 

Guess what, Canada has embraced all I had to offer to this day and continues to show appreciation towards my competencies. 

It wasn’t until early 2017 when I decided to move out of the USA and started the Permanent Residency application to move to Canada that I actually realized that Canada is all that young educated professionals could ever ask for in terms of welcoming immigration.

It offers job opportunities, unbeatable health care and great life settlement in general.

So let me say this: Moving to Canada is one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life.

I'm so grateful and thankful to this marvellous country. I wish I had not spent my education money as I did, and wasted my time in the USA.