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Academic Tuition Rates

A) Domestic Tuition Rate
B) International Tuition Rate

There are two academic tuition rates at York University: (a) a Domestic Tuition Rate for students who are specifically exempted by the government of Ontario regulation from the International student charge; and (b) an International Tuition Rate for students not so exempted, or students unwilling or unable to provide documentary proof of exempted status to the Office of the Registrar. These rates are also tied to your home Faculty.

The Office of the Registrar is the University office responsible for all matters related to which academic tuition rate a student is required to pay. Information on the interpretation of eligibility for exemption, tuition rate reassessment, deadlines for submitting documents, academic tuition rate information, or changes of status in Canada, must be confirmed by the Office of the Registrar.

A) Domestic Tuition Rate

You are eligible for the Domestic Tuition Rate if you fall into one of the exempt categories listed below and are able to give satisfactory proof of your status to the Office of the Registrar by the following deadline dates:

Note: A change of status is not retroactive to any previous session.

Fall/Winter Session

October 31 - deadline for reassessment at the Domestic Tuition Rate for the complete Fall/Winter Session

January 31 - deadline for reassessment at the Domestic Tuition Rate for the Winter Term only of the Fall/Winter Session

Summer Session

June 30 - deadline for reassessment at the Domestic Tuition Rate for the complete Summer Session

July 16 - deadline for reassessment at the Domestic Tuition Rate for certain Summer Session courses which begin later in the session, e.g. July 2. Questions regarding specific courses should be directed to the Office of the Registrar.

If you wish to be considered for exemption under one of the approved categories, you must contact the Office of the Registrar regarding the official documentation necessary to support such a request. Original documents must be presented. Photocopies of documents are not accepted. All documents presented in support of consideration for exemption, or if requested as proof of status, must be submitted to the Office of the Registrar, prior to payment of academic tuition.

If you are unable to provide the required documentation before paying your academic tuition, you are required to pay at the International Tuition Rate.

In order to retain an exemption for a subsequent term or session, you may subsequently be required to submit supplementary or new documents to prove that your status has been maintained.

If you present acceptable documentation for exemption from the International Tuition Rate, and this documentation contains an expiry date, it is your responsibility to bring updated documentation to the Office of the Registrar no later than 10 working days after the expiry date on the original documentation. This must be done to maintain your exemption.

Certain exemption categories specify that both the person who has the status, and his/her dependants, are eligible for exemption from the International Tuition Rates. The definition of a "dependant" is as follows:

"the spouse of that person, and any unmarried son or daughter of that person, or the spouse's unmarried child, who is in attendance at York University."

Note: "Spouse" refers only to a legally married husband or wife.

The dependent status must be fully documented. In the case of dependants of Canadian citizens, Permanent Residents and Permanent Resident applicants, the dependant status must have been established a minimum of three years prior to the student's application for exemption, and this status continuously maintained to the date of application for exemption.

Note: The exemption categories are subject to change at any time on the decision of the Government of Ontario and on the approval of the Board of Governors of York University.

Those in the exemption categories are:

(i) a citizen of Canada within the meaning of the Citizenship Act or a person registered as an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act;

(ii) a student who is the legal dependant of a Canadian citizen may be exempted from the International Tuition Rates. Documentation must be provided which verifies that the dependant status, e.g. by marriage or adoption, was instituted a minimum of three years prior to the deadline dates and that this status was continuously maintained to the date of application for exemption;

(iii) a Permanent Resident within the meaning of the Immigration Act, 1976;

(iv) a student who is the legal dependant of a Permanent Resident may be eligible for exemption from the International Tuition Rates. Documentation must be provided which verifies that the dependant status, e.g. by marriage or adoption, was instituted a minimum of three years prior to the deadlines and that this status was continuously maintained to the date of application for exemption;

(v) an applicant for Permanent Resident status, provided the applicant has met all the preliminary requirements for the granting of that status, and provided the applicant obtains an official statement from the Canadian Employment and Immigration Commission which confirms this;

(vi) a student who is the legal dependant of an applicant for Permanent Resident status (as outlined in category (v)) may be exempted from the International Tuition Rates. Documentation must be provided which verifies that the dependant status, e.g. by marriage or adoption, was established a minimum of three years prior to the deadline dates and was continuously maintained to the date of application for exemption;

(vii) a visitor admitted to and remaining in Canada under clause 10(c) of the Immigration Act, 1976, who has entered Canada or is in Canada to carry out official duties as a diplomatic or consular officer or representative or official properly accredited, of a country other than Canada, or of the United Nations or any of its agencies or of any intergovernmental organization in which Canada participates, or as a dependant or a member of the staff of any such diplomat, consular officer, representative or official, or a member of a foreign military force or of a civilian component thereof admitted to Canada under the Visiting Forces Act, and any dependants of such personnel.

Note: a student who has been exempt under this category, but whose exemption status changes during the course of his/her program due to circumstances beyond the students' control, continues to be exempt from the payment of International Student Tuition for the duration of the program of study in which the student is registered at the time of the change in status. Contact the Office of the Registrar regarding official documentation required;

(viii) a visitor, and his/her dependants (other than graduate teaching and research assistants), who are admitted to, and remain in Canada (under clause 10(c) of the Immigration Act, 1976), for the purpose of engaging in employment;

(ix) a person and his/her dependants, who are officially recognized by the Employment and Immigration Commission of Canada as a Convention Refugee within the meaning of the Immigration Act, 1976;

(x) a person and his/her dependants, who are refugee claimants in Canada, only if the claim for refugee status was made to Employment and Immigration Canada before January 1, 1989;

(xi) a person who is a participant in the Ontario-Jiangsu Academic Exchange Agreement between the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities and the Higher Education Bureau of Jiangsu Province, China;

(xii) a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship awarded by the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America.