if applying online, I believe that we will get 3 years, as students in my college got 3 years for the same program. The reason why I went to flagpole because I got a job offer from an employer who does not accept implied status.My husband also holds a PGWP, the correspondence letter he received said that the work permit was going to have a validity of 3 years, but once he arrived at the airport they issued the work permit for only 2 years because that was the length of his studies, even though the correspondence letter said 3 years so this is normal I believe, it does not have anything to do if you flagpole or not. The same happened to you or they actually gave you less than the length of your studies?