“The average cost for an international student to attend a public university in Canada is approximately $17,264.”
This doesn’t seem right to me either. Of course, the cited average number of $24,930 for international students in the US is probably even further off. Both numbers in this article look quite fishy to me. I am wondering whether these numbers either exclude room and board, or are reduced by international students who attend community college, or if something else explains these numbers.
“international tuition At UBC and UToronto and many programs at McGill are in the C$40,000 range for tuition alone”
True, but international tuition at other Canadian universities is a lot lower, and there are a LOT of other very good universities in Canada. I think that the big 3 charge more for international tuition largely because they can. Of course, most of those Canadian medical schools that accept international students charge a lot for them also.
The admissions staff at two different small Canadian universities told us that international applications were way up for this year, compared to a year ago. However, they refused to speculate how much of this was the recent US presidential election and how much was the low Canadian dollar and how much was due to some other reason. Concern about whether visa’s will be available for international students attending US schools could also be a factor.
Given the relative size of the US and Canada, I would expect that a significant increase in applications to schools in Canada would not necessarily be noticeable at all to schools in the US.