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Colleges in Edmonton, Alberta Canada ...?

  • I am a junior in high school (I am American, I live in the U.S). I wanna live in Canada, so I'm starting to look for colleges over there. I don't know if Canada has finical aid. In Florida (where I live) we have that. The government or school gives you money for your studies, to buy books (Basically for school) since you have a low income, something like that. I've researched, but nothing has come up. Also, since I'm gonna be going on my own, I wanna now if the economy is good over there since I wanna get a job, and obviously, I'm gonna need a place to live. I have set my mind of Edmonton, Albert. So, I wanna know what colleges are over there, if they have financial aid (or something similar) and if the economy is good . Also, if you live there, or are from there, any basic things I should know about.

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    Yes, we have various forms of financial support for students, but they're mostly for Canadian students. There are some scholarships for international students which you can see how to apply for on the websites of the universities. You can also apply for forms of American student aid such as Stafford loans, and your parents can apply for a PLUS loan. Tuition fees for international students are a bit over $19 000 a year at University of Alberta. Of course, you'd also need to pay for your other living expenses and travel, keeping in mind that you wouldn't be allowed to work more than a few hours a week on campus for the first year (you could apply for a permit to work off campus after a year but you're still limited in time, and you'd be competing for jobs with other students and people who aren't students). If you don't have money to pay your tuition fees and support yourself, it would be an unrealistic plan unless you are an extremely good student with scholarships. It would be more feasible to consider coming as an exchange student for your junior year, or applying for funded graduate school programs. The main university in Edmonton is University of Alberta. It grants 4-year undergraduate degrees as well as graduate and professional degrees. Grant McEwan has many skill/technology-based diploma programs and a few degree programs as well. Concordia and King's are private Christian institutions. NAIT is a technological institute.

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Before you begin any sort of plans to move there are a few urgent things you need to be aware of that will no doubt impact your decision and your plans: 1) You must have a study visa before you can come to Canada to take any sort of post secondary university or community college programs. In order to qualify for the visa you must already have been accepted at a post secondary education institute so if you don't qualify for the school (your marks are not high enough or you don't have the prerequisites) then there will be no point in applying and paying for the student visa. 2) With a student visa you are allowed to study only, not work. The only work you are allowed to do would be a few select jobs open on campus or in the local community however they are minimum wage jobs and you are only able to work a few hours at them. In order to be allowed to work you will require a student work permit separate from your visa and you will have to maintain full time student status to qualify. While there are exceptions, for the most part you are expected to be able to pay for your schooling without working for the most part. 3) When you view the tuitions for the various universities and/or colleges you will see they have one rate for Canadians and one (higher) rate for international students. To a certain degree our universities and colleges are subsidized which means a lower rate for Canadians who pay taxes here. You would be required to pay the higher international rate since you are not Canadian and don't pay Canadian taxes. 4) Yes, we have various types of social assistance however you would not be eligible to take advantage of any of them as you would not be a Canadian citizen. Read through the site found at the link below first and then make up your mind what you want to do. Good luck

Randy

You won't really need financial aid, it's very cheap without any sort of assistance. My university tuition came to less than $4000 this year. BTW we call it university not college. Also, just google it. University of Calgary is really good, don't know what you like about Deadmonton.

Vanessa

There is the University of Edmonton located just in the heart of the city. If your wanting to be in a sorority we have 4 here. There is also the University of Calgary, pretty much the same, just different colleges and school studies.

Dontmesswitme

Yes, financial aid is available to those who qualify. You do realize that it's a loan, right? You have to pay the money back... I suggest you do some more research...

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