How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #362?

On August 17, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 254,113 candidates. 64,911 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 470 cut-off. A further 17,339 sat in the 461-470 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 470 is not knowable from the data.

Healthcare and social services · 19 August 2025

Express Entry draw #362

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #362?

The cut-off for round #362, held on 19 August 2025, was 470. It was a Healthcare and social services round and it issued 2,500 invitations to apply, 5 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 4 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 470 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at April 23, 2025 at 20:08:53 UTC.

On 19 August 2025, IRCC issued 2,500 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 470 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 5 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 4 weeks earlier. That was the second lowest of the 5 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 10,500 invitations at cut-offs between 463 and 510.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #362 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

470

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #357 on 22 Jul 2025 at 475 (-5)

2,500
Invitations issued: #362
Round: 19 Aug 2025
Date: April 23, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 470 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at April 23, 2025 at 20:08:53 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 470 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On August 17, 2025 it held 254,113 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on August 17, 2025, against the 470 cut-off of round #362
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	188	0.1%	All invited
501–600	22,930	9.0%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 470
451–500	75,011	29.5%	Split by the cut-off
401–450	73,920	29.1%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,461	21.0%	Below the cut-off
301–350	20,424	8.0%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,179	3.2%	Below the cut-off

64,911 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 470 — 25.5% of the pool.

A further 17,339 sat in the 461–470 band, which 470 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 470 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 19 Aug 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the second lowest of 5.

470

463
Lowest cut-off: 510
Highest cut-off: 5
Rounds: 10,500
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #362 was held on 19 August 2025. IRCC has run 76 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 470.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 470 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 #362, 19 August 2025; pool as published on August 17, 2025.

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