Graduate Students Only
Graduate Settlement Effective Winter 2025 - payroll deductions will no longer be an accepted payment method for your student account. You are encouraged to review the financial arrangement or other methods of payment.
All Awards/Scholarships will automatically be applied to the student account as the first form of payment. Please review the Statement of Financial Responsibility.
FAQs about payroll deductions
Following a review of our processes, the decision was made to stop offering payroll deduction as a payment method for graduate students employed by the University due to high administrative costs and low utilization, and to allocate resources more effectively.
Using payroll deduction as a payment method necessitates multiple manual interventions across departments, which leads to errors and inaccuracies in the amounts paid by students. This creates significant challenges for students, as discrepancies result in uneven payments and unexpected outstanding balances. Consequently, we’ve received feedback indicating that these issues complicate budget planning for students, making financial management more difficult.
The resources required to manage and maintain this service are significant and unsustainable. The number of students utilizing this service is relatively small meaning the costs are not offset by enough users to make this service viable.
By removing the payroll deduction service, we can streamline our operations and concentrate on enhancing the services that are more widely used by students.
The payment plan enhances transparency for students and significantly supports their budget planning by providing clear installment amounts and due dates. This clarity helps eliminate unexpected outstanding balances, thereby reducing the associated fees, financial sanctions, and stress that can arise from having an outstanding balance.
The U of G has been charging this fee to graduate students who are not employed by the U of G, and all other U of G students, who prefer to pay tuition and fees via installments rather than as a lump sum payment at the start of the term.
This fee covers the costs associated with processing and managing payment plans, including staff time, system maintenance, and documentation.
We have taken into consideration the charges for payment plans at other Ontario universities. We do not charge interest or require a minimum balance to be eligible unlike some other Ontario universities.