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The University of B.C. is displacing domestic students while allowing international students with lower qualifications into some academic programs, say a University of B.C. economist and University of Alberta law student.

UBC Okanagan associate professor Peter Wylie and law student Shaun Campbell presented a research paper at two different academic events this month, in which they argue some Canadian-raised students are failing to gain entry into in-demand career programs that are in some cases being filled by full-fee paying foreign students.

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“I hope the new B.C. government will look into the issue of UBC’s differential admission standards for domestic and international students,” said Wylie, who has presented the contentious research data to economists, faculty, administrators and university senators.

“I find it hard to justify that a B.C. high-school grad living, say on UBC Vancouver’s doorstep and with an 85 per cent average, is denied admission to the university campus down his street and instead offered a place at UBC Okanagan, or having to go out-of-province, when an international student with the same average living in, say, Beijing is accepted.”