Tuition + Fees

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AY2022-2023 Tuition + Fees

For international students in the funded cohort, the department funds the differential in the domestic and international tuition rate and supports University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP) fees.

All tuition-paying students are charged compulsory non-academic incidental fees. These include fees for Hart House, student societies, and the GSU supplemental health and dental plans. Students who have comparable supplemental health (not OHIP or UHIP) and/or dental may opt-out.

Tuition + Fees Deferral

Tuition and fees for the academic year are posted to Student Accounts by mid-July. In order to activate registration status for the year, either the tuition and fees need to be deferred or a minimum payment made. Students within the funded cohort are automatically eligible to defer tuition and fees through ACORN. The deferral process allows the postponement of payment until April 30th (without penalty). Students outside the funded cohort should consult with the graduate administrator to determine deferral eligibility.

In order to defer tuition and fees through ACORN, select Finances > Tuition Fees Deferral > OSAP/Govt/Grad Deferral. The update from “Invited” to “Registered” status should be reflected under the Academics tab.

For students within the funded cohort, who are not in receipt of a major award, tuition fellowship payments are applied directly to your student account balance in the fall and winter sessions (typically as UTF tuition fellowship).

For students in receipt of a major award (e.g. NSERC, OTS, QEII-GSST), please note that while the deferral is technically in effect until April 30th, outstanding tuition and fees will be deducted from major award payments starting in January. This is an automatic mechanism in which ACORN payments are applied to the student account balance and any remainder is issued as stipend. The RA stipend payments kick in January  and May to offset the portion allocated to tuition and fees. These payments are disbursed through HRIS payroll and are always issued as directly as income payments.

The deferral will be in effect until April 30th. Monthly service charges at a rate of 1.5% compounded monthly (19.56% per annum) will be applied against the outstanding student account balance beginning as of May 15th and as of the 15th of every month thereafter until the account is paid in full. Future registration will be blocked until the balance is cleared. This should not, however, be an issue during the funded cohort period as your tuition and fees are provided by the department and/or a major award and will be directly applied to your student account balance in advance of May 15th. Students outside of the funded cohort, however, may need to make an arrangement for payment.

*ACORN disburses most departmental and university fellowships and federal and provincial awards: e.g. Connaught, NSERC, OGS, OTS, and QEII-GSST.
*HRIS disburses TA salary and research assistantship stipend (supervisor support funds as a research trainee).

Final Year Tuition + Fees

In your final year, tuition and fees will be posted for the full year but will be adjusted to a prorated amount after submission of your final thesis to the Digital Electronic Repository. If you submit your final thesis by September 15th, you will not owe any tuition and fees for that academic year. After that your tuition will be prorated (per 12 months) based on your date of final thesis submission . If you submit by the 15th of the month, tuition is not charged for that month forward. Incidental fees, however, are charged by the session (fall and winter) and not prorated on a monthly basis.