Fees

Student Fees

Student fees are assessed one term at a time. Student fees include tuition, incidentals, and fees for residence and meal plan, as applicable. Exception: Students living in residence at St. Paul's University College or Conrad Grebel University College will be billed directly by that institution for the residence fee.

Fees for textbooks, class notes, mandatory supplies, or other costs associated with field trips, and/or other miscellaneous expenses, are not charged to student accounts.

Undergraduate fee schedules are posted on the Student Financial Services website eight weeks prior to the start of each term.

Term

Term refers to a particular four-month period of course study:

• fall term - September to December
• winter term - January to April
• spring term - May to August

Tuition Fees

Fees are assessed per 0.5-unit course, either on campus or online, whether for credit or being audited. For the latest undergraduate course fees, refer to the Student Financial Services website.

Co-operative Programs

Engineering/Software Engineering/Architecture

Students taking more than two on-campus courses are assessed on a per-term basis for the basic term fee and full-time incidental fees. Students taking two or fewer on-campus courses in a term are assessed by course at the unit course fee and part-time incidental fees.

All Other Co-operative Academic Plans

Students are assessed by course at the unit course fee to a maximum of the basic term fee. Students taking more than two on-campus courses in a term are assessed full-time incidental fees. Students taking two or fewer on-campus courses are assessed part-time incidental fees. 

Regular Programs

Optometry

Students are assessed on a per-term basis for the basic term fee and full-time incidental fees.

Other Regular Academic Plans

Students are assessed by course at the unit course fee to a maximum of the basic term fee. Students taking more than two on-campus courses in a term are also assessed full-time incidental fees. Students taking two or fewer on-campus courses are assessed part-time incidental fees. 

Incidental Fees

Incidental fees are non-tuition fees charged to students each term based on their faculty, program, course load, campus, and citizenship status. Students enrolled in more than two on-campus courses are charged full-time incidental fees. Students enrolled in two or fewer on-campus courses are charged part-time incidental fees. Students enrolled in online courses only are not charged incidental fees.

Access to some student services may be restricted when the student is not charged full-time incidental fees.

Students can opt out of some incidental fees charged each term by making their selections in Quest by the term due date each term.

Students can request a refund for the charges associated with the supplementary health and dental plans annually, during the change of coverage period each fall term, on the Studentcare website. Studentcare will refund students directly.

Co-op Fee

The co-op fee is an additional fee assessed to all co-op students enrolled in more than two 0.5-unit courses per term, for a prescribed number of academic terms based on their program. This fee reflects the additional administrative cost associated with offering a co-op program. Students who have completed the normally scheduled number of academic terms, but are required to remain enrolled for additional terms in order to complete their academic degree requirements are exempt from the co-op and work report marking fees in excess of the number required by their program.

Work Report Marking Fee

The work report marking fee for co-op students is set at a rate of $12.60 per term. This additional fee recovers the academic-related costs of marking work reports and is calculated in accordance with guidelines approved by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. Students in Architecture are not charged the work report marking fee.