General Laurier Tuition Bursary Program

When you apply for Laurier tuition bursary assistance, you will be assessed for the maximum amount of available bursary funding through this program. This bursary assistance is made available from tuition set aside funds. For Laurier tuition bursary assistance, you will be assessed based on your income and expenses for the applicable study period. General Laurier tuition bursary assistance is not available during the spring and summer terms. Exceptions to the standard application procedures are made for business co-op students and full-time students doing chartered accountancy add-ons.

In order to be considered for general bursary assistance at Laurier, all full time students are required to complete an OSAP application (full time as per the OSAP program requirements, therefore registered in a minimum 60% course, or 1.5 credits per term).

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Bursary Program Timelines

The online application must be submitted electronically by the stated deadline(s). The application is only available on LORIS. No late submissions will be accepted. All applications are not assessed until after the deadline date.

Fall 2017 and winter 2018 academic terms: two-term bursary applications will be available online on LORIS as of Nov. 2017 (Date to be determined), and the deadline to apply will be Jan. 2018 (date to be determined). Recipients will be notified by email by early March 2018. Allocations made under this program will be applied directly to your account with the Business Office in early March. Note: Your bursary will not be applied to your account before tuition for the winter term is due; you are responsible for payment of any late fees.

Fall 2017 academic term: one-term bursary application (four months) will be available online on LORIS as of Sept. 2017 (date to be determined), and the deadline to apply will be October 2017. Allocations made under this program will be applied directly to your account with the Business Office in late October 2017. Note that your bursary may not be applied to your account before tuition for the fall term is due; you are responsible for payment of any late fees. Note: This application is not available to full-time students who will be attending classes for the fall and winter terms).

Winter 2018 academic term: one-term bursary application (four months) will be available online on LORIS as of Dec. 2017 (date to be determined), and the deadline to apply will be Jan. 2018 (date to be determined). Allocations made under this program will be applied directly to your account with the Business Office in late February 2018. Note: Your bursary will not be applied to your account before tuition for the winter term is due; you are responsible for payment of any late fees.

Steps for Applying for Laurier Tuition Bursary Assistance

Complete an OSAP application online.
Submit all required documentation to the Student Awards Office for processing. Note that an OSAP application is not complete until all of the required documentation has been processed by the Student Awards Office. If you are not sure of the required documentation, please log in to your OSAP account, as this will provide you with your list of supporting documentation.
Submit the online application form for the general tuition bursary program, including the online student budget form component, for the applicable terms. If you have completed the student budget component of the online student profile(s), you are not required to complete this again for this program. Only one student budget form is required per academic year, for all programs that have a financial need component.
An OSAP application, as well as the required supporting documentation must be submitted to the Student Awards Office by the bursary deadline in order to be considered for bursary assistance. Applications submitted without the completed documentation by the deadline will be considered "incomplete" and will not be assessed.

Exceptions

If you are restricted from applying for OSAP, you are still eligible to apply for bursary assistance.
You must be officially restricted by OSAP, by the program requirements/guidelines of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
If you are not a resident of the Province of Ontario, and are eligible through another province, you are not required to apply for provincial loan assistance from your home province in order to be eligible for bursary assistance.
Students who are registered part time as per the OSAP program requirements (not part time as per Enrolment Services policy at Laurier), and are not eligible for OSAP assistance due to their course load (below 60%, or 1.5 credits per term) are not required to complete the OSAP application for part-time students. Bursary applications will be accepted for students who are deemed to be part time as per the OSAP program regulations, without the OSAP application requirement.
If you are eligible for OSAP loans, and decline the loan portion of your funding, you may be ineligible for assistance through the Laurier Tuition Bursary program.
Students who receive Student Access Guarantee Bursary funding via their OSAP assessment in excess of the tuition bursary amount will not be considered.
Graduate students who have been allotted a Student Access Guarantee Bursary are required to complete a General Tuition Bursary Application in order to receive their assessed amount of SAGB.

Bursary Applications for Business Co-op Students

Winter and spring 2018 academic terms: eight-month applications will be available online as of early March 2018, and the deadline to submit the application is the end of May 2018

Winter term 2018 academic term: one-term bursary application will be available online on LORIS as of Dec. 2017 and the deadline to apply will be Jan. 2018. Note: This application is not available to Business co-op students who will be attending classes full time for the winter and spring terms.