Current Students

Getting Started

Whether this is your first year at university or you are a returning student, planning your finances, determining the financial support you need and budgeting your money are best done before the semester starts.

Be open about your financial concerns. Investigate all the financial resources available to you including support from your family, scholarships, government loan programs, work on campus and bank loans.

Planning Ahead

Once the semester starts your class schedule, meeting friends and faculty, won't give you enough time to create a budget and think about ways to keep within the spending limits of your budget. Using an electronic planning tool:

• START EARLY
• Calculate your educational and living costs and note due dates
• List the resources you will have at the start of the academic year
• Investigate scholarships, government loan/grant programs, bank loans and/or work on campus if your resources do not cover your educational and living costs
• Apply for scholarships, government loan/grant programs in March, April May or June dependant on application deadlines to allow time enough time to submit further information, supporting documents or signature sheets
• Review your resources and adjust your educational and or living expenses to be within your resources.