{"id":11,"date":"2026-09-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/sharonfinancial-ca\/2026\/09\/03\/canadas-degree-costs-can-top-75k\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:00:00","slug":"canadas-degree-costs-can-top-75k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/canadas-degree-costs-can-top-75k\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Degree Costs Can Top $75K"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sharon-51\/education-gift-loan-remotion-videos-b6f6\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Canada, post-secondary costs can exceed &gt;$30K yearly once tuition, rent, food, transportation, and books are included, making upfront family planning especially important.<br \/>\nParents and students benefit from deciding early whether tuition support is a gift or loan, then setting expectations on repayment, interest, and review points.<br \/>\nMany families have saved only ~$20K per child, far below the ~$75K avg. cost of a 4-yr Canadian degree with residence currently.<br \/>\nEducation savings accounts can unlock a federal match of ~20%; experts said even small monthly deposits help families start earlier and build confidence.<br \/>\nContributing $2.5K yearly from birth over 18 yr was presented as enough for a 4-yr program, even with residence and out-of-province costs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Canada, post-secondary costs can exceed &gt;$30K yearly once tuition, rent, food, transportation, and books are included, making upfront family planning especially important. Parents and students benefit from deciding early whether tuition support is a gift or loan, then setting expectations on repayment, interest, and review points. Many families have saved only ~$20K per child, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}