Donald Trump's anti-immigration stance is apparently having an adverse impact on the numbers of international students applying to U.S. colleges and universities.

Government data shows a sharp drop of 17 per cent in the number of study permits issued to students from overseas in the year to September 30, 2017.

At the same time, Canadian universities have seen nearly an 11 per cent increase in their international student numbers, suggesting Canada is attracting at least some of those put off the U.S. by the Trump administration.

The U.S. equivalent of Canada's Study Permit is the F-1 visa, for which there were 393,573 approvals in the U.S. fiscal year 2017, which runs from October to September. The previous fiscal year saw 471,728 applications granted, while the numbers peaked at more than 600,000 in 2015.

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