[29] The following month Conestoga announced they were offering 160 employees early retirement in December 2024 in an effort to cut costs following decreased international student demand.

[34] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized colleges of profiting from high enrolment of foreign students in November, Conestoga declined to respond to his comments.

[35] Immigration Minister Marc Miller called out Conestoga saying that making $100 million dollar surplus "isn't the vocation of a college.

[38][39] Canadian colleges working with recruiting entities in India processing tens of thousands of student visas[40] have been implicated in human trafficking by Indian authorities.

The school's programs include Construction, Motive Power, Industrial and Service sectors, as well as Traditional Apprenticeship and, most recently, Pre-apprenticeship,[46] offered in partnership with private enterprise companies.

[47] The college's president revealed a plan in late 2019 to consolidate all of the trades programs at one location in future, but the date of the move was not disclosed at that time.

It is located at the south end of Kitchener and houses the central administration offices as well as the majority of courses offered by the college.

Construction of the 61-hectare (150-acre) campus was expected to conclude in Q3 of 2021; in the meantime, the college would offer courses in rented premises, commencing in September 2019.

[65] A news release issued by the college said that it would continue working with Laurier, "the government, industry and community partners to develop a revised model for the cost-effective delivery of post-secondary education ... in Milton..."[66] The college decided to purchase 17 hectares (42 acres) of land in this city in 2019, to relocate all of the trades programs (offered at various campuses) to Cambridge at a future date.

[68] The college has operated a small campus in Guelph for some years, but in late 2019, it advised the news media that a major expansion was planned after the trades program was relocated to Cambridge.

[70] The School of Engineering and Information Technology was relocated, in 2011, to a new expansion of the Doon campus opposite the current facility across Highway 401.

The Engineering facility has programs with a focus on advanced manufacturing, robotics, renewable energy, telecommunications, and information technology.

[citation needed] In May 2019, a new downtown campus for the International Business program was announced to be opening at Kitchener's Market Square in January 2020.