Graduate Fees

You want to familiarize yourself with the deadlines for registration and payment as they go hand in hand. Student Financial Services is the unit to which you should direct any questions about fees or deadlines for those fees.   If you do not make payment arrangements by appropriate deadline you will be deregistered.

Billing and payment are done on a semesterly basis rather than annually.   Once you have registered for your courses you will see the fees reflected on your account on WebAdvisor.  It takes approximately 72 hours for the payment to be reflected on your account.  

With the appropriate approvals a graduate student who withdraws from the university may be eligible for a refund of part of the fees, to be effective as of the date upon which the withdrawal notice is received in the Office of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies. Outstanding Library fines and charges are deducted from the calculated refund.  You should be aware that you may be asked to return government loans or external or internal scholarships.

A student will be placed on financial sanction when they fail to settle their account (pay in full or have an arrangement for payment approved by Student Financial Services) by the published payment deadline date.  Financial sanction will prevent you from seeing your final grades, obtaining an official transcript and selecting courses/registering for the following semester.  For the sanction to be lifted, you must pay the remaining balance on your account.  As a graduate student, you must be registered every semester unless you are on an approved Leave of Absence.

Starting Fall 2024, domestic and international PhD students entering their 13th full-time equivalent semester will receive Continuing Full-Time Tuition status. Their tuition in subsequent full-time semesters of their PhD program will be charged at a rate 50% of regular tuition. Compulsory fees will remain unchanged and will continue to align with status (full-time or part-time).

Students reaching their eligibility term will receive an email notification ahead of their registration period. Students will continue to register full-time as normal and will continue to be recognized as full-time students. The new tuition amount will show up on their student account starting on the 1st day of the first month of their next registered semester (i.e., September 1 for Fall, January 1 for Winter, and May 1 for Summer).

Eligibility:

All full-time PhD students who are registered in their 13th full-time equivalent semester in a PhD program and beyond are eligible for this reduction.

• This excludes semesters registered outside of their PhD program, e.g., Graduate Diploma, Master's, Doctor of Veterinary Science (DVSc), Transfer Semesters, etc.
• One part-time semester counts as 1/2 full-time semester in the total semester count.

Part-Time Students:

This tuition reduction only applies to full-time registrations. Part-time students looking to become registered full-time must complete a Full-Time Transfer Application to receive the tuition reduction.