As another academic year winds down for Maritime university students, many are watching their educational debt grow.
“My yearly tuition right now is $12,000,” says Mbali Dlamini, a Saint Mary’s University student from Toronto.
Debt can be even higher for international students as some are seeing yearly tuition increases of three-to-five per cent.
”At the time I started, my tuition was $25,000, around $27,000 per year and now it has been hiked up to $35,000,” says Dalhousie University engineering student Bhubindr Singh Sidhu. “I’ve spent more than $90,000, around $100,000 on three years of education and engineering, it’s getting expensive, more and more expensive.”
A student reads outside University of King’s College. (Source: Jonathan MacInnis/CTV News Atlantic)A Stats Canada study shows the most expensive provinces in the country to pursue higher education are in the Maritimes.
Prince Edward Island leads the way with students carrying $43,000 worth of debt upon graduation. Nova Scotia is second …