query join 3 tables on laravel

I have been working on this case for 3 days... Someone might give me a solution for the query report that I would like to create below.

I have 3 tables:

applicants
-id
-user_id
-name
-province_id

applications
-id
-user_id
-university_id

provinces
-id
-province_name

The goal of my query is providing total applicants for each province for on universities. Here is the table for this query

Here's my query on MySQL:

select provinces.province_name, count(applicants.id) from provinces  left join applicants on provinces.id = applicants.province_id  join applications on applications.user_id = applicants.user_id--  where applications.university_id = 1 group by provinces.id;

Please provides the answer wether in MySQL or eloquent.. Thanks!

via Chebli Mohamed