TORONTO – Ontario’s provincial government has extended a freeze on university and college tuition fees into the 2021/22 school year, with a new exception for out-of-province students.
That means schools can’t raise fees for Ontario undergraduate students, who paid an average of $7,938 in tuition fees this year, according to Statistics Canada.
Out-of-province students will be subject to increases of up to three per cent.
Tuition for international students, meanwhile, remains unregulated. Average undergraduate fees for international students hit $40,724 this year, Statistics Canada reports.
The Ford government had also frozen tuition fees last year, after slashing them by 10 per cent in 2019 – a move that was accompanied by significant cuts to financial aid.
Minister of Colleges and Universities Ross Romano said freezing tuition fees for a second year was intended to bring relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.
