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Tuition Payment Plan Program
Laurier provides graduate students with a unique tuition payment option designed to help alleviate the financial pressures of pursuing graduate studies. The payment plan is open to graduate students who must enroll in the plan on a term by term basis.
Application Windows
Payment plan enrollment windows open when invoices are posted and available to access on LORIS.
Fall 2026- Opens: on or about August 9, 2026 (after tuition invoices for fall have been generated)
- Closes: Sept 3, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. EST
The closing deadline date of the plan for each term is firm. Late applications will NOT be available or accepted.
Cost of the Plan
There is a $75 non-refundable Payment Plan Financing Fee for each term a student is enrolled in the plan. This fee covers the administrative costs of implementing the plan.
How the Plan Works
Students enrolled in the plan can pay tuition fees in three (3) equal installments applied monthly to their financial account. Monthly installment dates and their applicable due dates will be found in the Installment Information table available on LORIS after enrollment has been completed.
Installment effective dates are not payment due dates. After each installment effective date, an invoice will be posted to LORIS with that monthly installment's payment due date. An email notification will also be sent to you MyLaurier student email account to notify you that an invoice has been posted. A late fee of 1.25% will apply to any balances not paid by the installment's specified payment due date.
To be eligible to participate in the plan, you must meet ALL criteria:
- Laurier is your home institution, and
- Be registered for course(s) in the term in which you are enrolling in the payment plan, and
- Have tuition fees owing for the term in which you are enrolling in the payment plan and
- Have no amount owing from the previous term; if you owe previous term fees you will not be eligible for the plan until the previous term balance is paid in full.
Prior to proceeding with enrollment, students are required to consider the following information that may impact account balance and installments throughout the term:
- OSAP Recipients: OSAP funding will still be directed to Laurier - even if you are enrolled in a payment plan. If your expected OSAP funding will cover (or exceed) the amount of fees you owe, enrolling in the plan is not recommended.
Please Note: OSAP funding is first applied to any outstanding balance on your student account, including remaining payment plan installments. If the amount of OSAP received exceeds your outstanding balance, only the remaining difference will be eligible for refund. - Third-Party Sponsored/Band Funded Students: If you have a sponsorship in place where a third-party (example: Ontario Hockey League) or band covers all of your tuition and fees owing, enrolling in the plan is not recommended.
- Defending Students: If you are enrolled in a graduate program with a Major Research Paper/Thesis/Dissertation oral examination and already have a defence date scheduled or expected to complete all degree requirements (defence and submission of final post-defence documents), enrollment in the plan is not recommended.
- Changes After Payment Plan Enrollment: Once you are enrolled in a payment plan, your installment amounts are static and will not change if new fees, payments, awards, OSAP or sponsorships are applied to your account. Installments are not recalculated.
- Additional Fees: If new charges are added (such as from registering in more courses), they will appear on your next upcoming installment invoice and must be paid in full by that invoice due date.
- Credits: Any credits from payments, adjustments awards, OSAP or sponsorships received after enrollment in the payment plan will be required to remain on your account and will automatically be applied to your next upcoming installment balance(s).
- The $75.00 Financing Fee is non-refundable for any reason, including paying the balance in full prior to the deadline dates or cancellation of enrollment in the plan.
- Additionally, the $75 Financing Fee is NOT included in your installments. The $75 Financing Fee will be due by the first day of classes for the term in which you are enroling in the tuition payment plan.
- Check eligibility and complete enrollment through LORIS > Look for the "Student Financial Account" card > Apply for a Graduate Payment Plan
- The enrollment process will automatically assess your eligibility for the plan.
- If you are ineligible, the system will provide a reason and possible ways for you to make yourself eligible before the deadline.
- If eligible, enrollment in the plan is automatic and immediate. Your account will update with your plan installments after you receive an on screen confirmation message and installments will be viewable on LORIS.
- Each installment will become effective on your student account each month and an invoice will be posted to your LORIS account with an applicable due date for payment of each installment. Installment information, including installment amounts, effective dates and invoice due dates can be referenced on LORIS through your Installment Information History.
If you are a graduate student and receive a notice that says you are "You are not authorized to view this page." when you try to go to the payment plan, follow these steps:
- If you also have a Laurier staff account (@wlu.ca), ensure that you are logging into LORIS with your student account
- Log out of LORIS completely and close the browser completely including all open tabs
- Open a new browser and login to LORIS
- Try clearing or deleting your cache or browser history and re-logging in again
I missed the window, can I still enroll in the plan?
The closing deadline date of the application window for each term is firm. Late application requests will not be available or accepted for any reason.
Can I cancel the plan?
If you have changed your mind or no longer need the plan for any reason, you can choose to cancel the plan during the application window.
Once the first installment has become effective, please can no longer be cancelled.
The full amount of any remaining balance and/or unpaid installments is due by your most recent posted invoice on LORIS.
Reminder: The $75.00 Financing Fee is non-refundable and will not be adjusted from your student account.
Can I re-enroll in the plan?
If for any reason you have cancelled enrollment in the plan, you can choose to re-enroll in the plan if the application window is still open.
Reminder: A new $75.00 Financing Fee will be applied for each instance of enrollment into the plan.
Can I have the credit on my account refunded?
If any awards, payments, OSAP, sponsorship or course changes results in a credit, the credit is required to remain on your student financial account in order to automatically be applied to your next upcoming installment(s) as they become effective.
If your credit balance exceeds all of the upcoming installments, you will be eligible to have the difference that is over and above your installments owing refunded upon submission of a refund request.
I have fees owing for this term, why isn't it letting me enroll in the plan?
The tuition payment plan is intended for students with tuition fees owing from registration in courses where Laurier is their home institution.
If you are not registered in courses for the term (i.e. you are on a co-op work term or you are incoming exchange student and/or your home institution is not Laurier, etc.) you will not be able to enroll in the payment plan.