An IT professional with 10+ years' experience asked whether anyone had gone the study route at that career stage.
- It's a well-trodden path. Multiple members confirmed doing exactly this - one with a decade in IT, another with 10 years in fund accounting who moved onto a study permit for a finance program. Age 30+ is not a blocker in itself.
- The two things members credited: a logical SOP and a 'resonating' program. The program must visibly extend the decade of experience (not repeat or abandon it), and the SOP must make that progression obvious to the officer.
- Expect refusal risk anyway - one respondent was rejected once before succeeding, consistent with experienced professionals facing extra 'why study now?' scrutiny. A refusal is a prompt to sharpen the SOP/program match, not the end.