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2024 tuition rate increase

The Government of Quebec will increase tuition rates for Canadian students (or permanent residents) from outside Quebec starting in fall 2024. Understand whether these measures apply to you.

Fee changes

Students paying the Quebec resident tuition fee rate.

CURRENT STUDENTS (started before fall 2024)

  • Undergraduate
    You are not impacted by these tuition changes. (Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.) 

  • Graduate
    You are not impacted by these tuition changes. (Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.) 

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS (fall 2024 or later)

  • Undergraduate
    You will not be impacted by the tuition changes. (Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.)

  • Graduate
    You will not be impacted by the tuition changes. (Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.)

Non-Quebec residents paying the Canadian-non-Quebec tuition rate.

CURRENT STUDENTS (started before fall 2024)

  • Undergraduate
    You are not impacted by these tuition changes as they only apply to individuals starting programs in fall 2024 or later unless you change programs*. Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually. NOTE: There are exceptions. Learn more.
      

  • Graduate
    You are not impacted by the tuition changes as they only apply to individuals starting programs in fall 2024 or later unless you change programs*. Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually. NOTE: There are exceptions. Learn more.

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS (fall 2024 or later)

  • Undergraduate
    You will be impacted by the tuition changes and subject to the new tuition fee rate. Please note the award information below. Also please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually. 
  • Graduate research (thesis-based master’s or PhD)
    You will not be impacted by the tuition fee changes. Graduate research students are exempt. Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually. 

  • Graduate non-thesis (professional or course-based)
    You will be impacted by the tuition changes and subject to the new tuition fee rate. Please note the tuition fee reduction information below. Also please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually. 

Non-Quebec residents paying the international student tuition rate.

CURRENT STUDENTS (started before fall 2024)

  • Undergraduate
    You are not impacted by these tuition changes. Concordia has decided to keep fees at the currently published tuition rates for undergrads for 2024-25. Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.

  • Graduate
    You are not impacted by these tuition fee changes. Concordia has decided to keep fees at the currently published tuition rates for grad students for 2024-25. Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually. 

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS (fall 2024 or later)

  • Undergraduate
    You will not be impacted by these tuition changes. (Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.)

  • Graduate research (thesis-based master’s or PhD)
    You will not be impacted by these tuition changes. (Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.)

  • Graduate non-thesis (professional or course-based)
    You will not be impacted by these tuition changes. (Please note your fees will reflect a standard incremental increase annually.)

Other exceptions

Tuition increases do not apply to you if you are:

Undergraduate funding

All first-year undergrad applicants to Concordia are automatically considered for an entrance scholarship at the time of their application and that will continue to be the case. 

We are aiming to increase the amounts allocated to scholarships from our own budget or from donors and to increase the number of scholarships available as well. We are pleased to launch several new awards for incoming fall 2024 students:

Canada Scholars Award

Worth up to $4,000 a year
Learn about the Canada Scholars Award

Canada Transfer Student Award

Worth up to $2,000 a year
Learn about the Canada Transfer Student Award

Graduate tuition fee reductions

Concordia is pleased to announce that, starting in fall 2024, every incoming out-of-province Canadian graduate student in a professional program with a full-time course load will receive a new fee reduction to minimize the impact of the tuition increases as follows:

  • Non-thesis students (except MFA and MA Creative Arts Therapies):
    $3,000 ($1,000 per term)
  • MFA and MA Creative Arts Therapies students:
    $15,000 (over five terms) 
  • Graduate Diploma students:
    $2,000 ($1,000 per term)
  • Graduate Certificate Programs:
    $1,000

Admitted prior to fall 2024?

Understand fee rules and restrictions, including what changes might result in you being billed at the higher tuition rate.

If you started your degree at Concordia prior to fall 2024 as a non-Quebec resident paying the Canadian-non-Quebec tuition rate, you will be billed at the lower tuition rate unless you fall into the following situations:
 

  1. CHANGE OF PROGRAM
    If you change degrees, you will be subject to the higher tuition rate. For example:
    • BFA to BSc
    • BA to BComm
    • Independent student to a bachelor's degree
    • Thesis-based master's degree to a course-based master's degree
    • Undergraduate degree to a graduate degree
       

    If you change concentrations or options within the same degree, you will NOT be subject to the higher tuition rate. For example:

    • Major in Human Relations to specialization in Human Relations
    • BA in Sociology to BA in Psychology
    • BEng in Mechanical Engineering to BEng in Electrical Engineering
       
  2. TIME LIMIT
    There is a grace period allowing you to complete the program to which you were admitted prior to fall 2024 at the lower tuition rate. This grace period ends in summer of 2029.

    If you do not complete your degree by the end of the grace period and register for the fall 2029 term or any term after that, you will be subject to the higher tuition rate.

    If you complete your degree AND start a new degree before the grace period ends, your new degree will be subject to the higher tuition rate.

  3. DEFERRAL
    If you were admitted prior to fall 2024 and deferred your admission to fall 2024 or any subsequent term, you will be subject to the higher tuition rate.

Questions?

Please email the Birks Student Service Centre at students@concordia.ca  

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