Paying Your Student Account

Fee Payment Due Dates

Statements are run around the 18th of each month and capture course enrolment activities, residence fees, meal plan and telecommunication charges as well as payments made since the last statement was run. Each statement calculates a minimum payment due that month and indicates the due date. If there are overdue amounts, the late fee is also calculated at that time.

Normally payments are due as follows:

• enrolment deposit is due within five business days of enrolling in courses;
• fees for summer course enrolments are due May 10;
• fees for fall and full year course enrolments are due September 10;
• fees for residence charges and meal plans are also due September 10;
• fees for winter course enrolments are due January 10;
• health plan fees are usually charged in September through November and are due the 10th of the following month.

Any activity that takes place after a statement is generated will be reflected on the following month's statement. Therefore, if you drop a course after August 18, it will not be reflected on your August statement; it will appear on your September statement and will be part of your amount due on October 10.

Around the 18th of each month, review the "Minimum payment due this month" on your Student Account Online Statements.

Late Fees

Students who cannot pay the full amount of their fees by the due date are expected to make regular monthly payments to reduce their outstanding balance as quickly as possible. Students having difficulty meeting their financial obligations should contact Student Client Services in the Bennett Centre for Student Services as quickly as possible. (Glendon students should contact Glendon Student Financial Services.)

Payments on your student account are due on the 10th of each month. If you do not pay the "minimum amount due this month" to the University by this date, you will be charged a late fee of one per cent monthly on the amount owing from your last statement. The late fee annual interest rate is 12.7%.  Late charges are not assessed on fees for courses that begin in a future academic session or on transactions that appear for the first time on your statement.

Students who have applied for OSAP by the posted deadline but have not yet received their funds, will not be charged late fees for the months of September, January and/or May.

Financial Blocks

If you have an overdue balance of more than $75 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.  You may also be blocked from seeing your grades at the end of the term.

• 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

In order to remove the block, you must make your payment through telephone or online banking to reduce your account balance to less than $75. The block will be automatically lifted once York receives the payment from your bank.

Please note: statements are not mailed out to students; to find out how much you owe, view your statement or recent transactions, check your Student Account Online Statements.

How to Pay

You can pay your enrolment deposit, residence charges or course fees through telephone or online banking.

• Contact your financial institution in order to set up your bank account(s) for telephone or online banking. The company name/payee is York University.
• Use your York student number as the account number.
• If you pay through telephone or online banking, it may take up to four business days for your payment to be transferred to your York student account.
• As long as you pay by telephone or online banking by the due date, your payment will be accepted as on-time.
• If you are an international student and would like to send a wire transfer to pay for course fees, residence, health care and UHIP charges only, print one of the attached forms and bring it to your bank for processing. We will only accept wire transfers that cover transactions on your student account. Print the document for Canadian funds wire transfer or US funds wire transfer.

You can check your Student Account Online Statements to view recent transactions. Allow a few days for your payment to be applied to your account.

Returned Payments

• a $50 non-refundable administrative charge;
• de-enrolment, if the enrolment deposit is returned;
• de-registration, if any subsequent payments are reversed by the bank.

RESP - Verification of Enrolment and Registration