Let me give you my personal experience which I had very recently. I got an offers from Conestoga and Sheridan colleges from Canada for May 2024. But somehow I felt that somewhere I got stuck during my banking process. I tried with several banks and NBFC.
In case If you wish to go through banks here are two important things you need to know
- You better have any collateral , because most of the banks does not provide you educational loans without collateral.
- Banks will ask you to pay up the deposit money to confirm your seat in the college by your own money ,later you can reclaim it. I actually wanted to go to Sheridan college, but the tuition fee for the college was my first term of tuition fee which is somewhere around 5.6Lakhs (INR). which I wasn’t able to afford . Hence I had to choose Conestoga college where they asked me to pay 92,167 Indian rupees to confirm my seat.
- The processing time for banking system will be too long since you will be going through collateral .
Incase if you go through NBFC
- The processing time will be less comparing to the banking process.
- They will give you non collateral loans.
But going through NBFC is always considered to be a risk. I have researched through online and also by the experience of few peoples I know who took loans from the NBFC like Auxilo and Credila .
Some had a good experience and the others had a terrible one.
I went with an Organization called We Make Scholars. My Counsellor’s name was Oviya who helped me in getting loans through the ICICI Bank with Non- collateral option. Yes you heard it right ! its a non-collateral and with a Rate of interest of 10.99% also I got from Avanse and credila with 12.5 % . So without any confusion I chose ICICI .
I hope this helps you well. All the best guys .