Education costs inflate faster than most things. A named SIP started early beats an education loan negotiated late.
Professional education in India and abroad has been inflating at a pace that surprises every parent who prices it late. The families who fund it comfortably share one habit: they started a dedicated investment for it while the child was still small.
Work backwards from the year, not forwards from today
Take the year your child turns eighteen, estimate today's cost of the course you have in mind, and inflate it to that year at 8 to 10%. The number will look large. Then divide the journey into a monthly SIP and it becomes ordinary. A goal fifteen years away allows equity funds to do the heavy lifting; our SIP Goal Calculator gives you the exact monthly figure in seconds.
De-risk as the date approaches
The plan is not just "invest and forget." From about three years before the money is needed, we progressively shift the corpus from equity into debt funds, so a badly timed market fall cannot collide with an admission deadline. This glide path is the difference between a plan on paper and a plan that survives contact with reality.
Start early, name the goal, step up the SIP with your increments, and de-risk on schedule. Education funded this way costs a fraction of education funded by a loan.
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