cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
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cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
I tried Google, with no success: hi, my son has Canadian citizenship/passport, and has never lived in Canada. If he were to go to uni in Canada, would his tuition be set as a Canadian citizen or as an international student? If the latter, how many years must he live in Canada to be at the Canadian citizen rate?
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
As far as I know, it is residency that counts for fees not citizenship alone. A student has to have a permanent address in Canada.
I believe that having lived permanently in Canada for one year would entitle him to pay the Canadian rate.
But you would do better to determine what an individual university would consider a Canadian vs foreign student ............. google a few universities, then scan through for their fee charges. Every university sets their own fees, and some may even charge a higher fee for an out-of-province student ..... we hit that with our daughter when she was considering doing that.
I believe that having lived permanently in Canada for one year would entitle him to pay the Canadian rate.
But you would do better to determine what an individual university would consider a Canadian vs foreign student ............. google a few universities, then scan through for their fee charges. Every university sets their own fees, and some may even charge a higher fee for an out-of-province student ..... we hit that with our daughter when she was considering doing that.
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
As far as I know, it is residency that counts for fees not citizenship alone. A student has to have a permanent address in Canada.
I believe that having lived permanently in Canada for one year would entitle him to pay the Canadian rate.
But you would do better to determine what an individual university would consider a Canadian vs foreign student ............. google a few universities, then scan through for their fee charges. Every university sets their own fees, and some may even charge a higher fee for an out-of-province student ..... we hit that with our daughter when she was considering doing that.
I believe that having lived permanently in Canada for one year would entitle him to pay the Canadian rate.
But you would do better to determine what an individual university would consider a Canadian vs foreign student ............. google a few universities, then scan through for their fee charges. Every university sets their own fees, and some may even charge a higher fee for an out-of-province student ..... we hit that with our daughter when she was considering doing that.
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Canada’s lowest fee university (for both Canadian and international students): https://www.mun.ca/
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I’m not sure that advice re residency is correct, although it looks like a grey area, and I think it’s certainly worth checking with individual establishments. When we looked into it for our daughter about 8 years ago, the universities she considered differentiated by status rather than residency, so citizen or PR was classed as ‘home’ with lower fees than international. Perhaps that’s changed over recent years or with different institutions? And we were resident in Ontario although my recollection is that that didn’t affect things.
Financially you need to know how long the school deems students "international". Practically, isn't it the case that you find the school most able to fill your son's head and work out the cost somehow?
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
Best to determine whether he meets the requirements (academic) to enter Uni here first
But you might find this of use also: https://uthink.com/question/canadian...g-abroad-osap/
For example: https://www.uottawa.ca/undergraduate...tudying-abroad
Find out which prerequisite courses and additional requirements you need for the program(s) you’re interested in.
But you might find this of use also: https://uthink.com/question/canadian...g-abroad-osap/
For example: https://www.uottawa.ca/undergraduate...tudying-abroad
Find out which prerequisite courses and additional requirements you need for the program(s) you’re interested in.
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If you are studying in a secondary school in another country, you must submit your transcript.
International postsecondary school transcripts
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If you have taken the prerequisite courses for your program in secondary school, we require your secondary school transcripts.
If you are currently taking courses, you must submit the codes and titles for them.
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
thanks all for the advice, more investigation needed.
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We came to BC on a work permit and UBCO would have been $45k for an international student vs $6k now we have PR here so it makes a bit of a difference!!
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
$6k for the year...or the term? Just asking as here It's $9,50.00? It's interesting how they all start off quite so differently.
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
I do know that at UBC, and probably at other universities, that fees differ according to the programme/faculty that the student is in.
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
Does anyone know how residency is defined? I have a Canadian passport, i live in England. On that glorious day when I return to the home and native land, do I have to tell someone? Or just ruck up at the border, anoint myself with a bottle of maple syrup, wrap myself in the flag and go forth?
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Re: cost for non-resident Canadian to study in Canada?
Does anyone know how residency is defined? I have a Canadian passport, i live in England. On that glorious day when I return to the home and native land, do I have to tell someone? Or just ruck up at the border, anoint myself with a bottle of maple syrup, wrap myself in the flag and go forth?
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That is not what my daughter was told when she was an international student in Toronto. Even though we had excellent US healthcare insurance that covered her 100% in Canada...we had to buy Canadian insurance. If I remember correctly it either had to be approved by U of T or purchased through them.
I lived with an American here for a decade or so and, at one point, she went back to school. She needed health insurance for that; otherwise she just paid at the hospital when asked. There was never a fee at the GP because they dealt with lots of immigrants and had a stock of SINs to use when the patient didn't have one.
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I was thinking of Canadians, not visitors; snowbirds are diligent about getting back so as to achieve the required time here. I don't suppose international students, who are not already Canadian, ever achieve residency through studenting..
I lived with an American here for a decade or so and, at one point, she went back to school. She needed health insurance for that; otherwise she just paid at the hospital when asked. There was never a fee at the GP because they dealt with lots of immigrants and had a stock of SINs to use when the patient didn't have one.
I lived with an American here for a decade or so and, at one point, she went back to school. She needed health insurance for that; otherwise she just paid at the hospital when asked. There was never a fee at the GP because they dealt with lots of immigrants and had a stock of SINs to use when the patient didn't have one.