Student struggling to pay tuition

By: Kianna Holland

Students are struggling with maintaining to pay for tuition fees and with the cost rising up to 5.3 percent over the year 2021-2022 leaving students in debt after graduating. While Postsecondary does giveStudents tremendous opportunities to learn and help give excess to jobs, the upside is that students from experience are speaking out about how trouble paying tuition is and how it’s affecting their studies. The reason for the high cost is inflation, making the cost skyrocket affecting student fees to rise up.

Especially for International students with 4% more than domestic students leaving the International feeling overwhelmed with student fees. Seneca students are well known for expecting international students in the program and most are having a hard time with paying their student fees.

Alfaz puthenveetill said, “Tuition has a lot of impact on me because in the meantime I have to get a job, now that I recently have a Job I don’t think that it wouldn’t affect me as much but still compared to the international fee and the domestic fee international student have it much worse by 15,000 per year and compared to the domestic that pays around 4,000.”

“At the beginning of the semester, I didn’t have much money to pay for my course I couldn’t pay it on time so I wasn’t able to enter my courses online I missed the first part of the course which put me behind. I was able to pay within the three months so I missed a lot of assignments due to that reason.

Edwin another student who has the same experience stated “It’s been terrible because I’m an international student our fees are too much. I came in as someone who can just work and then continue paying fees so I tried paying the whole fee in one year, but it’s very difficult continuing to pay.
“I strive to do better in my grades, but I also have to think about the future and I think to myself how am I going to get all the money to pay for my student fees? This is my current problem that I have to think about constantly. I think it’s declining my academics. I’m not really performing well in some courses, but then with time I’ll be fine.”

“Hopefully when I get there and finish my program I can look forward to getting a job and paying my student debt. What do to maintain paying my fees is work reaching out to my parents to try and help me, so that I just pay off.”

Post-secondary prices are continually rising and more people are noticing, which prevents people from getting an education and entering post-secondary. The crisis continues with inflation rising which is causing the student to be buried in debt and struggling to pay it off.

According to the provincial government they conducted a program with students that are in need of help to get out of the students dept, and 40% of them have benefited from the program. The solution is to have more programs to support the students with paying out the students rather than struggling by themself with paying it off on time.