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Election sees surge in US applications to Canadian colleges

Canadian colleges are experiencing increased web traffic and a surge in US applications following...
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14.57 1 Jan 2017


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Election sees surge in US applications to Canadian colleges

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14.57 1 Jan 2017


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Canadian colleges are experiencing increased web traffic and a surge in US applications following the election of entrepreneur Donald Trump.

US applications to the University of Toronto are up 70% from this point last year, while McMaster University’s American applications are up 34%, according to the Associated Press.

"I think everybody in international education is a little uneasy, in part because some of the rhetoric in the campaign frightened people overseas," Stephen Dunnett, University of Buffalo’s vice provost for international education, told the AP.

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"It's going to be perhaps a little bit rocky for a couple of years."

Canadian schools are more aggressively recruiting in the US in the wake of Trump's election, the AP also notes. 

The University of Toronto held a panel in Washington, D.C., this month about the election in an effort to recruit prospective students.

Nearly all recent presidential elections have featured a share of supporters on each side threaten to move to Canada or another abroad locale if their chosen side loses. But a mass post-election emigration out of the U.S. has never materialised.


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