How easy it is for the international students in Canada to find work after they graduate in Montreal (or in Quebec in general), and how easy is it for them to immigrate to Canada, that is, to get permanent residency?

So some of the specific questions would be:

 - How many international students look for full time work in Montreal/Canada after graduation? How many/what percentage find it? (This info should ideally be available from the career centers of the university. Scope could be Concordia/ McGill/all QC universities  etc.)

 

The idea here is to see how difficult/easy it is for students to stay if they wanted to once they finish their studies. The popular assumption is that they come to Canada to study because it’s relatively cheaper, and once they finish they leave; thus do not contribute to the economy in the form of taxes. So, the research is to see if rationally it would be possible to provide free education to international students and if we can argue that they should be treated the same way as other student categories (particularly, Quebec students) when it comes to providing free education.

 

Our hypothesis is that international students would stay and contribute (via taxes) after their studies but the immigration rules and regulations are so restrictive that many people have difficulty staying (i.e., meeting criteria for permanent residency) after they finish studies/after their work visa expires. This can be one of the research questions too, to see where people find the immigration process to be difficult, what aspects of the eligibility are most stringent to meet and so on.

 

 Other related research would be: how many other countries have been able to get free education for international students, and how they achieved this.