Payment of Fees

The Office of Graduate Studies provides a good overview here and also in this form on our website.. Full details including the rates for part-time students can be found on the Student Financial Services website. if you are living or working more than 200km from Guelph for a semester, you are also entitled to reduced fees; talk to Jake for details.

In sum, upon registering for courses via the WebAdvisor website, you will be able to see the fees charged to you within 72 hours of registration. You may access this upon logging into WebAdvisor, by accessing Student Menu > Financial Profile > Registration Billing. Payments are done on a semesterly basis instead of annually. And there are various methods to pay your fees, including online banking, telephone banking, debit card, and more. Please see the Payments and Settlements page of SFS for all methods accepted by the University.

Note that information about fees schedules and payments may also be emailed to you via your uoguelph address, so please keep on eye on your Inbox.

Failure to pay the fees in full OR arrange for payment with SFS before the published deadline date will lead to financial deregistration. In order to re-enroll in your courses, you must go through the reinstatement process with Student Financial Services.

Decommissioning of the Graduate Settlement in W25

Phase One: Effective Fall 2024, students receiving Awards on their account were not required to complete the Graduate Settlement.  The award was automatically applied to their tuition and fees. 

Phase Two: Effective Winter 2025, Payroll deductions will no longer be an accepted payment method for students’ accounts. The Graduate Settlement will be discontinued.  Students currently using payroll deductions, will be contacted directly and will be provided information regarding an alternate payment plan (Financial Arrangement Form) for Winter 2025. 

To accommodate this transition, financial arrangement tuition installments in Winter 2025 will shift from three (3) installments, as outlined in the prior communication, to seven (7) installments, each of which follow a University of Guelph pay day. As previously announced, the $100 administrative fee for this installment plan will be waived in Winter 2025.

Winter 2025 installment dates:

• January 17
• January 31
• February 14
• February 28
• March 14
• March 28
• April 10

The graduate financial arrangement form will be published on the Forms webpage and available for submission starting mid-December. The form must be submitted by the payment deadline date, January 10, 2025 with first installment required the following week. If you would like to begin budgeting for Winter 2025, you can review your anticipated tuition and fees for your program and divide by 7 to estimate your installments.

In Summer 2025, the installment plan will move to three payments as originally announced and additional information will be provided in the upcoming month.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to accquest@uoguelph.ca.

If you would like to begin budgeting for Winter 2025, you can review your anticipated tuition and fees for your program.

Refunds

If you wish to withdraw from your studies before a certain class day (for example to take a leave of absence or defend your thesis), you can be refunded all or part of your fees for that semester. The Graduate Calendar outlines this process (as does Student Financial Services here), and the amount of refund received depends on how far into the semester you are. Keep in mind that:

• Organizational and non-academic fees that are not part of the tuition fee are not refundable after the 15th class day.
• Medical and dental insurance is non-refundable after the 5th class day.
• The resource fee for distance education courses is non-refundable after the 5th class day upon dropping a course.