How to Earn Air Miles from your Tuition Payment

[Mike Skinner]

Tuition can be one of the biggest expenses for students, so we might as well try to collect some rewards points while we pay. But, universities do NOT accept credit cards. Here is an alternative option:

Pay for your tuition using BMO Interac Online. BMO Interac gives you 1 Air Mile per $40 spent. As an example, 200 Air miles gets you a $25 gift card from HBC. So, if you pay $8000 tuition, you can get $25 back. Better than nothing...

Does anyone know of any other debit cards that have rewards attached to them?

[CCCC3333]

Some universities accept credit cards.

[nuberific]

That's a great suggestion OP. Too bad I already paid for this year. Also, the above poster is correct in that some schools accept credit cards.

There's also the Scotiabank Visa that gives Scene points for Cineplex.

Also slightly off topic, I believe OSAP will take Visa.

[joe1487]

My university recently stopped accepting credit cards for payments, to my great annoyance. I'm now forced to pay by debit for meager Air Miles (1/$40). However, I've always wondered, do you still get Air Miles for Interac Online purchases?

[djino]

Also slightly off topic, I believe OSAP will take Visa.

Yes thats true, but it will count as a cash advance on your credit card. Same as if you were withdrawing cash from your credit card, so you'd pay the appropriate fee based on that. So not a good idea.

djino

[mkjr]

and a cash advance is not a purchase and you get no points. i tried to use visa cheques for my rent for points but will not work because it too is a cash advance and not a purchase.

[boyoflondon]

All 4 years at UWO, I've paid my tuition with my MBNA 1% cashback MC ....

Last year, they had a 2% promo, so I squeezed $100+ out of them

Sure worth more then 20-25 lousy AMs.

If you are that desperate to earn 20AMs, Rexall has an offer this week where if you spend $25 on Gillette products, you get the AM's

[alanbrenton]

All 4 years at UWO, I've paid my tuition with my MBNA 1% cashback MC ....

Last year, they had a 2% promo, so I squeezed $100+ out of them

Sure worth more then 20-25 lousy AMs.

If you are that desperate to earn 20AMs, Rexall has an offer this week where if you spend $25 on Gillette products, you get the AM's

I wish I knew about this before. Was it just at the undergrad level that they accepted credit card payments?