Colleges in Edmonton, Alberta Canada ...?

[sweetana621]

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.

 

[Vanessa]

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.

 

[Randy B]

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

 

[Magicman101]

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.

 

[Unregistered]

Grant Mac is in the center of Edmonton

 

[Unregistered]

Concordia Univ is just oustside of the core in edmonton.