MONTREAL BEST CITY IN CANADA FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Montreal was just ranked the best city for university students in Canada, and the 10^th best in the world. The survey, conducted by the British firm QS, has Montreal beating out Chicago and New York City, and just behind Paris, London and Boston. Montreal scored so highly based heavily on its quality of life and number of international students.

Montreal has four universities and has a higher percentage of university students in its population than all other major North American cities.

What’s more, the average yearly tuition paid by Quebec students is the lowest in Canada. As well, the province offers a number of generous student aid programs.

While tuition for out-of-province and international students studying in Quebec is significantly higher, the children of new immigrants to the province can take advantage of the low in-province tuition rates.

STUDENT WORK VISA FOR CANADA

Many foreign students studying in Canada need to work to pay their bills while in Canada. Government has a visa for students to work while studying.

If you are a full time student (at least 15 hours a week) you can work on campus without a work visa. For students who want to work off campus, must have been studying in Canada for the past 6 months and be registered for the upcoming session. You will have to submit to Citizenship and Immigration Canada form IMM 5580. If you are approved, you will be allowed to work off campus.

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CANADA: Colleges see surge in Indian applicants

Canadian colleges opened their doors last week to accommodate a huge surge of new students coming from the Indian subcontinent. The Association of Canadian Community Colleges, or ACCC, is projecting about 12,000 Indian students.

At one institution, Centennial College in Toronto, staff members have been greeting students at a welcome booth at Pearson International Airport for the past two weeks.

The popularity of Canada as a higher education destination for Indians has been growing over the past several years. Statistics from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) office in India recorded a 511% increase in the number of students coming to study between 2007 and 2010 - from 1,503 students in 2007 to 9,176 in 2010.

Established in April 2009 with 20 participating member colleges, it has since grown to encompass 43 colleges in six provinces across Canada.

Indian students are attracted to Canada for its business and engineering programmes. One-third of the students are high school graduates, while the rest are three-year university graduates who hope that postgraduate diplomas will improve their employment chances.

Many are also interested in taking advantage of the immigration pathway Canada offers international students who wish to become permanent residents.

McGill University ranks No. 1 in Canada, 12th in world

A new QS World University Ranking placed Quebec’s McGill University’s law faculty as 12th best in the world and number one in Canada. Rankings were based on academic opinion, employer opinion, and citations by academics.

“It really shows that this faculty has the highest reputation,” said Daniel Jutras, dean of law at McGill. “It should be a source of pride for all Montrealers that one of its faculties placed so high on a world ranking. After all, the per student budget at McGill is nowhere near what they have at Harvard. We are just very proud and happy about what it says about us.”

McGill University, based in Montreal, Quebec, is an international university with 21 faculties and professional schools offering more than 300 programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. McGill receives applications from students from more than 120 countries every year.

Jutras also added that McGill’s law students study in both English and French and earn both common and civil law degrees.McGill University is known to have a great reputation and many accomplished law luminaries have come out of McGill, including Canadian Prime Ministers Sir John Abbott and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.