For those who aren’t familiar with McGill Personal Finance Essentials, it’s a 100% free online personal finance course with over 350,000 registrants to date. In 2023, MoneySense named it as the best all-around free personal finance course in Canada, and TIME.com recently highlighted it as a resource on its sources of financial advice page.
The course has eight core modules, covering the basics of personal finance from budgeting and investing to debt and real estate. It’s fully bilingual (English and French) and takes on average 3-4 hours to complete. Although it doesn’t count toward any McGill University degree, diploma or certificate, participants who complete all of the core modules will receive an attestation of course completion.
Over the last few years, we made the course available year-round and unlocked course progression, so you can now complete the modules in any order you like, allowing you to jump directly to the topics that interest you most. We revised one of our investing modules to focus more on retirement planning and added several other minor updates on relevant new topics, such as the launch of Canada’s First Home Savings Account (FHSA). Lastly, we added two bonus modules on ‘Responsible Investing’ and ‘Cryptocurrencies and Crypto Tokens.’
Why are we posting this now? Well, the course is currently scheduled to run until October 2025. At the moment, it’s unclear whether it will continue to be offered afterward. So, if you’re interested in taking the course while it’s still available or if you know a young person who would benefit from it, I highly encourage you to check us out at www.mcgillpersonalfinance.com.
Our team is always happy to receive questions, comments and feedback, so please don’t hesitate to reach out here or via the course’s official Help Line ([email protected]).
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Statistics: Posted by PersonalFinanceEssentials — Apr 1st, 2025 11:28 am