Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Education (25 points)

• 78 (1) Points shall be awarded, to a maximum of 25, for a skilled worker’s Canadian educational credential or equivalency assessment submitted in support of an application, as follows:

  • (a) 5 points for a secondary school credential;

  • (b) 15 points for a one-year post-secondary program credential;

  • (c) 19 points for a two-year post-secondary program credential;

  • (d) 21 points for a post-secondary program credential of three years or longer;

  • (e) 22 points for two or more post-secondary program credentials, one of which must be a credential issued on completion of a post-secondary program of three years or longer;

  • (f) 23 points for a university-level credential at the master’s level or at the level of an entry-to-practice professional degree for an occupation listed in the National Occupational Classification matrix at Skill Level A for which licensing by a provincial regulatory body is required; and

  • (g) 25 points for a university-level credential at the doctoral level.

• Marginal note:More than one educational credential

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), points

  • (a) except as set out in paragraph (1)(e), shall not be awarded cumulatively on the basis of more than one educational credential; and

  • (b) shall be awarded on the basis of the Canadian educational credentials or equivalency assessments submitted in support of an application for a permanent resident visa that result in the highest number of points.