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Guidelines for Studying
Abroad – A detailed School Application process (Canada)
Once you have made up
your mind to study abroad, you should make it a responsibility to read and keep
every vital information serious because succeeding in this process requires a
lot of sacrifices, reading, and research.
This article lays more
emphasis on application to Canadian Schools.
Where do I start from?
I am new to the school
application process. What do I have to do?
Answer
You have to first of all
plan. The planning requires you to consider the following:
1. The province
2. The school
3. Tuition fee deposits
and refund policies.
4. Tuition fees
5. Admission Requirements
6. Post Graduate Work
Permit Eligibility of the programs in the institution
1. Provinces
It is not economically
advisable to apply to schools in every province that is why it is important to
settle on 1, 2 or at least 3 provinces you want to go to. Then you can now
narrow down your search further. The institutions are located in these
provinces, so deciding on what province to go to will be helpful in your school
application process.
The provinces/territories
that have Designated Learning Institutions (DLIs that is universities and
colleges) in Canada include the following Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba,
New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia,
Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Yukon.
With this in mind, you
have to know where you are now heading towards.
2. The School/DLI
There are several
universities and colleges in Canada and in these provinces. Searching on IRCC's
website for the list of DLI's will give you every name of each institution in
the province you are interested in going to. It is just a simple search by using
their website like. Link attached for reference
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(https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/study-permit/prepare/designated-learning-institutions-list.html)
3. Tuition fee deposits
and refunds.
A peculiar mistake most
of us make in the process of applying to a school is not checking the tuition
deposit required by a particularly school and what their refund policy says.
Most schools in Canada take a tuition deposit now due to the Provincial Attestation
Letter issues which is now a requirement for people coming in for a diploma,
bachelor's, graduate diploma, graduate certificate or post graduate diploma program.
Even before the
Provincial Attestation Letter (PAL) issues, schools were still taking tuition
deposits. So, before you throw your hard-earned cash away in applying for a
school, check very well to confirm if you can pay the required tuition deposit
before you proceed to apply. Again, check the refund policy of the school in
question and weigh it well before making a decision as well.
Doing this before
applying gives you a clear information on what preparations to make after
gaining admission.
I didn't touch on
Master's and PhD programs because only some few schools take tuition deposits
for such programs, but with most schools, you actually do not pay a tuition
deposit for this level of programs.
4. Tuition fees
Before you also apply to
a school in Canada, ensure you check the tuition fees and see if it is
something within your budget before you go in for it. Tuition fees are high for
international students, so it is therefore necessary to check for that in order
to know what fits into your budget.
Do not just jump into the
bandwagon due to the fact that everyone is applying because there's an
application fee waiver.
5. Admission Requirements
Also, some of us do not
check thoroughly for admission requirements before applying to the school in
question. For undergraduate programs, it is a little bit flexible, but for
graduate programs, it requires impressive and outstanding application materials.
Understanding admission/program requirements is key because it helps you
prepare required documents tailored towards the departmental requirements. Do
not check only generic requirements and proceed to apply. Look out for what
your departmental requirements say and put in an outstanding application.
A good CGPA is great, but
only a good CGPA won't get you admitted into a serious graduate program. Other
factors like your statement of purpose/personal statement, academic CV/ resume,
writing samples, research statements, recommendations letters and any other
document required by graduate school will help you get admitted when these
documents are competitive enough and outstanding. Attach all seriousness to
this process as it will determine whether you can proceed to the next stage
(visa application) or not.
5. Post Graduate Work
Permit Eligibility
Per IRCC's information,
you can stay and work in Canada after you are done with school, provided you
meet certain requirements. One of such requirements is pursuing a program that
is post graduate work permit eligible in any DLI in Canada. So when choosing a
program, kindly confirm if that program is post graduate work permit eligible
or not. You can simply check that on IRCC's website.
When you come Study in
Canada for:
1.
Eight months to 1 year program which is
not a master's program, you get a 1 year Post Graduate Work Permit (PGWP) after
school.
2.
Sixteen months (1yr 4 months) master’s
program without any scheduled breaks, you’d get a three-year PGWP (Post
Graduate Work Permit)
3.
For two years and above program also gets
you a three-year PGWP.
4.
Eight months to 1 year program which is a
master's program, you get a 3 year Post Graduate Work Permit (PGWP) after
school.
It also doesn't mean that
finishing the program will automatically get you the post graduate work permit
as we have heard of cases whereby noncompliance to the study permit conditions
led to the denial of some people's post graduate work permit. Also, there are
also cases of noncompliance of study permit who also got their post graduate
work permit. This is just to give a fair idea for you to choose what to do when
you get to Canada to study.
