642,000 international students: Canada now ranks 3rd globally in foreign student attraction
The United States currently has an estimated 1.1 million international students. Australia ranks second globally, with its nearly 700,000 international students. Canada’s 642,000 international students now rank it third globally, ahead of the nearly 500,000 each hosted by China and the United Kingdom. There have long been a lot of international students in Canada but the numbers have spiked the last few years. 1 in 35 people in BC is now an international student. That's a crazy high number.
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