Receiving Your Award Payments
If you receive an offer for a scholarship, bursary, award or other funding opportunities at Laurier, you must meet all requirements for the funding to be applied to your student account as a credit.
You must be registered and have a tuition charge showing on your Laurier student account with the Student Accounts Office in the term that you are expecting funding.
Requirements to receive your funding may vary by each award program.
View Your Funding and Disbursement Schedule
To view your award funding from Laurier:
- Log in to LORIS.
- Select the Student Awards and Financial Aid tab.
- Select View My Student Aid/Funding.
- Select the correct Aid Year and Aid Period.
- To see when your funds will be applied, select Disbursement Schedule.
The Disbursement Schedule provides more details on when you can anticipate your funding will be applied to your student account as a credit.
For funds processed before the start of the term, you should receive your credit to your student account before the academic term begins.
For funds processed after the start of term, you should see the credit on your student account once the funds are applied. It may take up to 48 business hours for the credit to appear on your student account, after the funds are applied.
If you have not received your funding:
- Check which term your funding is expected to disburse in LORIS.
- Verify that you are meeting all of the other requirements such as course registraion and specific award requirements.
Schedule Payment Dates
Schedule payment dates are the dates we use to ensure your awards are ready to be disbursed, if you meet the requirements. These dates can be viewed under your Disbursement Schedule in LORIS.
This schedule does not mean that you will receive funding on this date, but rather, when you can anticipate your funding will be applied to your student account as a credit, if you meet all requirements to receive your award.
Schedule payment date of:
- July 1 or later: Funding will be applied to your fall term account fees.
- Nov. 1 or later: Funding will be applied to your winter term account fees.
- March 1 or later: Funding will be applied to your spring term account fees.
Request a Refund
Most scholarships, bursaries and awards granted by the Student Awards Office and the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies are applied to your account as a credit balance.
If a credit balance exists once the funds have been applied to your account, you may be eligible to request a refund.
Frequently Asked Questions
All scholarship, bursary and award programs at Laurier may have different criteria that students are required to meet to receive the funding for each opportunity. This criteria may include registration requirements (full- or part-time registration), GPA requirements and other eligibility criteria.
For more information on the requirements and details on the eligibility criteria, see the specific award page in the Scholarships and Bursaries or the Graduate Funding and Awards sections of the website.
Each scholarship, bursary and award program at Laurier may have different registration requirements to be eligible to receive your funding. Some programs may require full-time registration in one or more academic terms in an academic year (September through August).
For information on the requirements and details on the eligibility criteria, see the specific award page in the Scholarships and Bursaries or the Graduate Funding and Awards sections of the website.
Graduate Students
If you are a graduate student who has received an internal graduate award from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, contact fgps@wlu.ca. Some examples include:
- Laurier Graduate Scholarship
- Deans Graduate Scholarship
- Graduate Studentship
Undergraduate Students
If you are an undergraduate or graduate student who has received a scholarship, bursary and/or award from the Student Awards Office, contact studentawards@wlu.ca. Some examples include:
- Entrance Scholarship and Bursary (including President’s Gold Entrance Scholarship)
- In-Course Scholarship or President’s Gold Scholarship
- Laurier Tuition Bursary
- First Generation Bursary
- Indigenous Student Bursary
- Competitive Scholarships, Awards, Donor-Supported Bursaries
If you are receiving the message “No available schedule records to display” from the Disbursement Schedule for your selected scholarship, bursary or award record on LORIS, contact the Student Awards Office at studentawards@wlu.ca.