What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #344?

The cut-off for round #344, held on 1 May 2025, was 479. It was a Education occupations round and it issued 1,000 invitations to apply. Candidates who tied at 479 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at August 10, 2024 at 10:35:55 UTC.

How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #344?

On April 27, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 246,673 candidates. 45,959 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 479 cut-off. A further 16,411 sat in the 471-480 band, which the cut-off runs through — IRCC does not publish scores at a finer resolution than these bands, so how many of that group cleared 479 is not knowable from the data.

Education occupations · 1 May 2025

Express Entry draw #344

On 1 May 2025, IRCC issued 1,000 invitations to apply in the Education occupations category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 479 on the Comprehensive Ranking System.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #344 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

479

Education occupations

1,000
Invitations issued: #344
Round: 01 May 2025
Date: August 10, 2024
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Federal Skilled Worker Program, Canadian Experience Class and Federal Skilled Trades Program

Candidates tied on 479 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at August 10, 2024 at 10:35:55 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 479 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On April 27, 2025 it held 246,673 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on April 27, 2025, against the 479 cut-off of round #344
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	416	0.2%	All invited
501–600	20,708	8.4%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 479
451–500	72,523	29.4%	Split by the cut-off
401–450	68,267	27.7%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,640	21.7%	Below the cut-off
301–350	22,553	9.1%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,566	3.5%	Below the cut-off

45,959 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 479 — 18.6% of the pool.

A further 16,411 sat in the 471–480 band, which 479 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 479 is not knowable from the data.

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #344 was held on 1 May 2025. IRCC has run 94 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 479.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 479 fell through the pool. Whether your own score reaches a category, and what would move it — a language retake, a provincial nomination, a spouse’s credentials — is a different question, and it is the one worth answering.

Data: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Round #344, 1 May 2025; pool as published on April 27, 2025.

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