The Globe and Mail: Nearly half of PhDs in Canada are immigrants: census
Newcomers to Canada are accounting for an increasing proportion of the population with university and advanced degrees, new census numbers show.
The new numbers, released Tuesday by Statistics Canada, show that about one-third of the population born outside Canada hold a university degree, compared with about one-quarter of the general working aged population. The numbers also show a huge jump in qualifications of the newest arrivals with more than half of those who came to Canada between 2001 and 2006 holding a university degree.
Immigrants also account for close to half – 49 per cent – of all those in Canada who hold a PhD and 40 per cent of those who have a masters.
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