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Education occupations · 17 September 2025

Express Entry draw #367

On 17 September 2025, IRCC issued 2,500 invitations to apply in the Education occupations category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 462 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 17 points below the previous Education occupations round 20 weeks earlier.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #367 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

462

Education occupations

Previous Education occupations round: #344 on 01 May 2025 at 479 (-17)

2,500
Invitations issued
#367
Round
17 Sept 2025
Date
July 09, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 462 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at July 09, 2025 at 04:24:19 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 462 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On September 14, 2025 it held 251,630 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.
Express Entry candidates by CRS range on September 14, 2025, against the 462 cut-off of round #367
CRS rangeCandidatesShare of poolAgainst the cut-off
601–12002200.1%All invited
501–60024,8709.9%All invited
Cut-off — CRS 462
451–50071,42728.4%Split by the cut-off
401–45074,17829.5%Below the cut-off
351–40052,88321.0%Below the cut-off
301–35019,9787.9%Below the cut-off
0–3008,0743.2%Below the cut-off

65,555 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 462 — 26.1% of the pool.

A further 16,158 sat in the 461–470 band, which 462 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 462 is not knowable from the data.

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #367 was held on 17 September 2025. IRCC has run 71 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 462.

Free CRS assessment

Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 462 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 #367, 17 September 2025; pool as published on September 14, 2025.

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