Registration

Graduate students must maintain continuous registration in all terms — Fall, Winter and Summer — until graduation, subject to the time limits stated in Regulations, and must pay the appropriate term fee.

You must register and accept your fees before the posted deadline. Please visit Registrar's Office—Registration and Enrollment in order to register. You will need to sign in to your Passport York account to complete your registration.

Note: The Faculty of Graduate Studies does not require an enrollment deposit. By accepting your fees online, you are deemed to be registered. (This does not apply to the School of Social Work)

Students are expected to remain in the category of registration to which they are admitted unless a change of status is approved by their Graduate Program Director and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. A change of status for a term must be made prior to the start of the term.

Overdue Balances

Interest charges

Payments on your Student Account are due on the 10th of each month. If you do not pay the "minimum payment due this month" to the University by this date, you will be subject to interest charges of 1.09% monthly on the amount owing from your last statement. The annual interest rate is 13 per cent.

Funded graduate students will not be charged interest for an additional month after the due date (FA-Oct/WI-Feb/SU-Jun), as it is expected that the funding components will be posted on your Student Account after the program charges and will cover all or most of the program fees. For example, if the due date is Sept 10th, then graduate students will not be charged any interest until Oct 10th.

However, please remember that Rental fees will not be covered by the graduate funding package. Please keep an eye on your Student Account each month to ensure that all the funding components have been posted and the charges for the current term are fully covered. If there is still an outstanding balance after the funding has been posted, please make a payment to the University to avoid the interest charge. Graduate students who having difficulty meeting their financial obligations should inform FGS as soon as possible. Please keep in mind, that your outstanding balance is your responsibility regardless of the funding that you expect to receive from York University.

Financial blocks

The threshold for student account overdue balances was raised to permit students to enrol in courses if they are in good academic standing with overdue balances below $1,500 for domestic students / $3,500 for international students.

If you have an overdue balance on your student account at any point after the dates listed below, you will be blocked from adding new courses, changing sections, or exchanging one course for another through the online Registration and Enrolment Module (REM); however, you will still be able to drop courses.

• November 1—you will be blocked from adding or changing courses in the current session.
• March 1—you will be blocked from adding summer courses.
• May 31—you will be blocked from adding fall/winter courses.

To remove the block, you must make your payment through telephone or online banking to reduce your account balance. Your block will be automatically lifted the day after your payment appears on your Student Account.

If you are unable to reduce your overdue balance in order to enrol, we may consider a debt repayment plan which will enable you to continue your academic studies. In such cases, please submit a debt repayment agreement form and Faculty of Graduate Studies will contact you to complete this process. Decisions to lift the financial block with an approved Debt Repayment Agreement (DRA) are based on the following criteria:

• Registered as active in the previous session.
• You have been making payments to your student account in the previous session.
• Your outstanding balance is manageable based on the payment plan being proposed. If an estimated graduation date is within one year, then the summary of all repayments should fully cover the outstanding balance. The debt must be fully paid before your graduation term, otherwise it will be sent to collection agency and will affect your credit score.
• You are in good academic standing; DRA approval does not ensure ability to register if you have an academic block.
• If you are paying domestic fees, you have applied for Financial Aid. OSAP funding must be remitted directly to the school.
• You may be required to make a lump sum payment to reduce your outstanding balance.
• If you have defaulted on a previous DRAs, any future requests for a DRA will not be considered.
• If you are employed on campus, you may be requested to set up a payroll deduction to aid in debt reduction.