In a stated bid to preserve French and reduce the gap between chronically underfunded English and French universities, the Quebec government is hiking the out-of-province Canadian tuition fee — a financial barrier that some international students can bypass.
Starting in the fall of 2024, Canadian university students, including those from francophone minorities in Ontario and New Brunswick, will have to pay $12,000 per year — $3,000 more than French and Belgian francophone students studying in Quebec.
But France and Belgium aren’t the only countries whose students have been granted tuition exemptions.
The provincial government has student mobility agreements with 39 countries, sparing higher education students from paying roughly $20,000 in
