Features and Benefits
Features and Benefits of the Royal Credit Line for Students:
- No annual Fee There is no annual service fee or cost to set up your line of credit.
- Pay interest only Only pay the interest on what you owe while you're still in school and continue to pay only the interest for 2 years after graduation or residency.
- Easy repayment RBC Royal Bank® offers easy and flexible repayment options, plus we will set up a fixed payment schedule to help you repay your loan.
- Rate doesn't change Your interest rate will not increase after graduation.
- Easy to accessYou have 24/7 access to your funds and everything you need to manage your funds, including ATM access, free RBC Online Banking, Mobile Banking, Mobile App, and more.
How Do I Qualify?
All applicants for the Royal Credit Line for Students must:
- Plan to study at a post-secondary school outside of Canada
- Be a Canadian citizen or have landed immigrant status
- Have a co-signer
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Prime Rate means the variable annual interest rate announced by us from time to
time as a reference rate for determining interest rates on Canadian dollar
commercial loans in Canada. Student Royal Credit Line rate quoted is subject to
change based on changes to the Royal Bank Prime Rate on the date of this offer.
The interest rate discount on the Student Royal Credit Line is up to 0.25 % of
the current prime rate. The discounted rate is subject to change at any time
without notice.
Two Student Royal Credit line cheques may be written during each monthly cycle without charge. A $2.00 Royal Credit Line Cheque Fee applies to each cheque thereafter. Refer to your Student Royal Credit Line Agreement for details.
Two Student Royal Credit line cheques may be written during each monthly cycle without charge. A $2.00 Royal Credit Line Cheque Fee applies to each cheque thereafter. Refer to your Student Royal Credit Line Agreement for details.
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RBC Advantage Banking for students allows eligible full-time
students to receive a full waiver of the standard Monthly Fee applicable to our
RBC Advantage Banking account. Please refer to the section labelled “Rebates and
Discounts: https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/accounts/advantage-banking-students.html
(opens in new window) RBC Advantage
Banking for students” in the document entitled “Addendum to April 30, 2020
Personal Deposit Accounts Disclosures and Agreements”, which provides
information specific to the RBC Advantage Banking account to supplement the
information provided in the Personal Deposit Accounts Disclosures and Agreements
document.
3
When you enrol your eligible RBC personal bank account into
the RBC Value Program, you will be eligible to earn Avion points within the
Avion Rewards Program as an Eligible Personal Banking Client, and any such
points earned will be deposited into the Avion Rewards account tied to your
enrolled account. Purchases from your account refers to using your RBC Client
Card to pay for items at a merchant or service provider with the amount
electronically debited directly from your enrolled account or using your RBC
Virtual Visa Debit for purchases online. Avion points are governed by the Avion Rewards Terms and
Conditions (opens in a new window)
available on our website, or a copy may be provided to you by contacting us. For
complete details on the Value Program, please see the Value
Program Terms & Conditions.
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Earn 1 Avion point for every dollar in purchases you charge to your credit card.
Avion points are earned on Net Purchases only; they are not earned on Cash Advances (including balance transfers, Cash-Like transactions and bill payments that are not pre-authorized charges that you set up with a merchant), interest charges or fees, and credits for returns and adjustments will reduce or cancel the points earned by the amounts originally charged.
You even earn Avion points on pre-authorized payments.
Some service providers may not offer pre-authorized payments to a credit card. For more details, please visit www.rbc.com/cardscustomswitch (opens in new window) or call 1-866-299-5926
Avion points are earned on Net Purchases only; they are not earned on Cash Advances (including balance transfers, Cash-Like transactions and bill payments that are not pre-authorized charges that you set up with a merchant), interest charges or fees, and credits for returns and adjustments will reduce or cancel the points earned by the amounts originally charged.
You even earn Avion points on pre-authorized payments.
Some service providers may not offer pre-authorized payments to a credit card. For more details, please visit www.rbc.com/cardscustomswitch (opens in new window) or call 1-866-299-5926
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Coverage underwritten by Aviva General Insurance Company.
6
There is a limit of 999 free Interac e-Transfer
Transactions per Month per Account; for every Interac e-Transfer Transaction
over the limit, you will be charged $1.
7
Interac e-Transfer Transactions expire 30 days
after they are sent and cannot be claimed by the recipient after this time. You
have 15 days after theInterac e-Transfer Transaction is sent to cancel
without charge. A $5 Interac e-Transfer Transaction Reclaim Fee is
charged when a recipient does not accept it before it expires and the sender
does not cancel the transaction before the 15-day cancellation period.
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To benefit from a rebate towards the annual fee of an Eligible Student Credit
Card, every year, you must: i) complete the Student Information section of the
credit card application form in full, ii) remain a student, and iii) be an owner
or co-owner of an Eligible Student Bank Account throughout your studies.
Eligible Credit Cards:
If, for some reason, the Expected Graduation Year you have provided at the opening of your Eligible Student Bank Account differs from the one you have indicated on your credit card application form, the Expected Graduation Year you have provided at the opening of your Eligible Student Bank Account will prevail and be used for determining the expiry of this offer.
Additional cardholders (co-applicants and authorized users) are not eligible for this offer. Only one credit card annual fee rebate per Eligible Student Bank Account is allowed. This means that if this is a jointly held Eligible Student Bank Account, and each co-owner is also the primary cardholder of an Eligible Student Credit Card, only the Primary Owner of the Eligible Student Bank Account will be entitled to the credit card annual fee rebate.
Eligible Credit Cards:
- Signature® RBC Rewards® Visa‡
- WestJet RBC®Mastercard‡
If, for some reason, the Expected Graduation Year you have provided at the opening of your Eligible Student Bank Account differs from the one you have indicated on your credit card application form, the Expected Graduation Year you have provided at the opening of your Eligible Student Bank Account will prevail and be used for determining the expiry of this offer.
Additional cardholders (co-applicants and authorized users) are not eligible for this offer. Only one credit card annual fee rebate per Eligible Student Bank Account is allowed. This means that if this is a jointly held Eligible Student Bank Account, and each co-owner is also the primary cardholder of an Eligible Student Credit Card, only the Primary Owner of the Eligible Student Bank Account will be entitled to the credit card annual fee rebate.
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RBC Advantage Banking for students allows eligible full-time
students to receive a full waiver of the standard Monthly Fee applicable to our
RBC Advantage Banking account. Please refer to the section labelled “Rebates and
Discounts: RBC Advantage Banking for students” in the document entitled “Addendum
to April 30, 2020 Personal Deposit Accounts Disclosures and Agreements”,
which provides information specific to the RBC Advantage Banking account to
supplement the information provided in the Personal Deposit Accounts Disclosures
and Agreements document.
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To be considered a full-time student, you must attend a
primary or secondary school OR be enrolled in a program at the post-secondary
level at a college, university or other educational institution (whether in
Canada or not). If you are a post-secondary student, you must take at least 60%
of the usual course load for the program in which you are enrolled in any
particular semester. Proof of enrollment may be requested at our discretion.
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Avion points are earned on qualifying net purchases only;
they are not earned on cash advances (including balance transfers, cash-like
transactions and bill payments that are not pre-authorized charges that you set
up with a merchant), interest charges or fees, and credits for returns and
adjustments will reduce or cancel the points earned by the amounts originally
charged.
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All rewards are subject to availability. The regular
redemption rate for Avion Rewards members, is 4,900 Avion points for $35 in
Amazon.ca, iTunes, Starbucks, McCafe, Indigo or Cineplex gift cards (3,500
points for a $25 gift card + 1,400 points for a $10 gift card). Point redemption
values may fluctuate. For complete terms, conditions and restrictions that apply
to the Avion Rewards program, please visitwww.avionrewards.com(opens in
new window) or call 1-800
ROYAL® 1-2
(1-800-769-2512).