Every year, many applicants who are rejected by the French embassy turn to applying for studying in Quebec instead. Quebec, Canada's largest Francophone region outside France, has 6.8 million descendants of the French. There are 15 universities in Quebec that offer courses in French. International students mostly apply for business-related management programs, which account for 26% of applications, making it the most favored field among international students and also one with high employment rates and salaries.
The Canadian Human Resources Department has listed eight professional fields with the most promising job prospects for reference:
1. **New Media**: Online media is the fastest-growing area in journalism and communications. New media programs combine traditional journalism courses with digital media design and management.
2. **Biological Engineering**: This discipline combines biology and engineering. Biological engineering programs are often supplemented with business courses. Related fields like bioinformatics and biomedical engineering also have good prospects.
3. **Organic Agriculture**: Some Canadian universities started offering organic agriculture programs in 2007.
4. **Homeland Security**: The Canadian Security Agency offers numerous scholarships and grants to students in this major, along with an 18-month degree-granting training program at the Homeland Security Defense Center.
5. **E-commerce and Online Marketing**: These programs focus on commercial transactions conducted over the internet, usually offered at the graduate level in business schools, but some Canadian universities now provide undergraduate degrees as well.
6. **Computer Game Design**: Some colleges focus on game development while others emphasize the artistic aspects of game design.
7. **Forensic Accounting**: One of the fastest-growing specialties in accounting, this program requires students to acquire broader business knowledge in addition to basic accounting skills. Most schools offer undergraduate degrees, while a few also offer master’s degrees.
8. **Human-Computer Interaction**: Typically a graduate-level course in computer science departments, some schools have begun offering undergraduate programs in this field.
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