How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #373?

On October 13, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 248,342 candidates. 50,616 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 472 cut-off. A further 15,370 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 472 is not knowable from the data.

Healthcare and social services · 15 October 2025

Express Entry draw #373

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #373?

The cut-off for round #373, held on 15 October 2025, was 472. It was a Healthcare and social services round and it issued 2,500 invitations to apply, 2 points above the previous Healthcare and social services round 8 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 472 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at May 12, 2025 at 23:17:30 UTC.

On 15 October 2025, IRCC issued 2,500 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 472 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 2 points above the previous Healthcare and social services round 8 weeks earlier. That was the 3rd lowest of the 6 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 13,000 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 #373 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

472

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #362 on 19 Aug 2025 at 470 (+2)

2,500
Invitations issued: #373
Round: 15 Oct 2025
Date: May 12, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 472 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at May 12, 2025 at 23:17:30 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 472 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On October 13, 2025 it held 248,342 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on October 13, 2025, against the 472 cut-off of round #373
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	345	0.1%	All invited
501–600	25,411	10.2%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 472
451–500	70,641	28.4%	Split by the cut-off
401–450	72,026	29.0%	Below the cut-off
351–400	52,448	21.1%	Below the cut-off
301–350	19,496	7.9%	Below the cut-off
0–300	7,975	3.2%	Below the cut-off

50,616 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 472 — 20.4% of the pool.

A further 15,370 sat in the 471–480 band, which 472 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 472 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 15 Oct 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 3rd lowest of 6.

472

463
Lowest cut-off: 510
Highest cut-off: 6
Rounds: 13,000
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #373 was held on 15 October 2025. IRCC has run 65 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 472.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 472 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 #373, 15 October 2025; pool as published on October 13, 2025.

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