Search This Blog

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Consider Heading North Kids

An excerpt from the Boston Globe -

Canadian colleges offer US students lower tuition and Trudeau instead of Trump
By Laura Krantz

CAMBRIDGE — In a sweaty high school gymnasium on a recent Monday evening, 25 college recruiters set up tables with glossy brochures and free pens. Among them were Quest University, Mount Allison University, the University of Waterloo, and Bishop’s University.

Most Americans can’t locate these schools on a map (hint: they’re all in Canada), but nonetheless about 100 US students and their parents attended the fair, curious to learn about them. Why? The lure of reasonably priced tuition and a chance to study outside the United States.


As private college costs in the United States creep ever-closer to $70,000 a year, Canadian schools are seizing on unprecedented interest among Americans increasingly unwilling to accept mountains of debt for an undergraduate degree.

Colleges in Canada, which are almost all public and receive more government support than their US counterparts, are significantly cheaper, as little as $8,000 per year at Brandon University in Manitoba, or $15,000 at McGill, in Montreal.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/09/27/canadian-colleges-focus-recruitment-efforts-students/esfIXhe9ctB66yrrQ7a2cO/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter

No comments:

Post a Comment