Cost of Child Education
We always dream to give best education to our child
but do we really think about growing cost of child education? We want a child
to become doctor or engineer but do we really plan for this? As per me saving
for child education is the most important goal for parents. Other goals like
buying car or buying home can be compromised, but we cannot compromise our
child education.
When it comes to child education planning majority of
people rely on child education plan which ends up paying them peanut type
returns. In this post, I will be highlighting details of growing child
education cost and will be giving education planning calculator.
Follow steps are given below to plan your child
education.
1
Set Target Year
The first step is to find out target year for
education expense. It is very easy to find out this if your child age is 1 year
then he will enter in graduation year after 18 years. If he is likely to do MBA
after graduation you need to consider target age 21-22 year for MBA.
2
Find Current Education Cost
The second step is to find current education cost.
Arriving at current education cost is somehow difficult. First you need to
decide that which educational institute you are planning for your child. You
have various options like Regional Engineering colleges, IIT etc for
engineering. You need to find out current education cost applicable to that
course in the specific institute.
3
Find Future Education Cost
The third step is to find future education cost.
Inflation rate comes in to picture at this stage. You can find future education
cost by using simple excel formula of FV.
4
Find Monthly Investment Amount
In order to find out monthly investment amount
required you can use simple excel formula PMT. PMT formula calculates constant
payment on constant interest rates.
5
Invest in Suitable Investment Option
Once you are done with all above step you need to find
out investment option which can generate a return as per your expectation. You
can select good mutual funds which can generate a return in the range of
12-15%.
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