Pay Tuition
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Overview and current dates and deadlines
Payment must be received in full by the payment deadline for each term. Students are expected to monitor their student finance account through the myOCADU student portal. Financial invoices are available on the myOCADU student portal after a student registers for the term. All finance correspondences are emailed to students' OCAD U email account.
Non-receipt of an OCAD U email notice does not exempt you from meeting your financial obligations.
Payment due dates
Summer 2024: Monday, May 27, 2024
Fall 2024: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Winter 2025: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Late payment of fees
Your fees must be paid in full by the payment due dates. Otherwise you could be placed on financial hold and charged an interest penalty. The financial hold will be removed when the outstanding balance, including any penalties, is paid in full.
For late payment Interest, please refer to the support article on late tuition payments.
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There are several ways you can pay your OCAD U tuition
Make a bill payment through your Canadian banking institution online, via telephone banking, or in-person at the bank. Search and add “Ontario College of Art & Design or OCAD University” as a bill payment payee and use your seven digit student ID number as your account number.
Bill payments made through a bank will take two to five business days to show up on your fees account. Please allow sufficient time between your payment and any payment deadline to ensure your payment is received and credited to your account.
Online chargeback policy is applicable to all bill payments. More details regarding the online chargeback policy can be found under the Policies section of our Tuition and Fees page.
Convera (formerly WU GlobalPay) is one of two international payment vendors authorized by OCAD U for international students to pay their admission deposit and tuition fee payment. Using the Convera platform you can arrange to pay online in your own currency. There are no transaction fees, and exchange rates are favorable compared to banks. After applying, students have 72 hours to make the payment at their bank to be guaranteed the quote given.
Payments may take three to five business days to arrive. Please allow sufficient time before any payment deadline for your funds to arrive.
Online chargeback policy is applicable to all Convera payments. More details regarding the online chargeback policy can be found under the Policies section.
You can learn more about Convera with this short video, also available in multiple languages:
Cantonese
Spanish
Mandarin
Korean
Japanese
Hindi
Indonesian
French (Canadian)
French
Arabic
The platform provides you with a quote in your local currency, which is valid for 72 hours, so you can pay without worrying about exchange rates, added bank fees, or funds arriving short.
Follow these easy steps:
- Visit the payment portal and fill out your student details.
- Select the items for which you wish to pay and choose a payment option. Due to banking regulations, not all currencies are available. If your home currency isn’t offered, you can pay in another currency (for example, USD).
- Enter the payment details of the person making the payment and select the language in which you would like to receive your instructions. (You may need to temporarily allow pop-ups in your browser to view the payment instructions.)
- Print your payment instructions and process your payment at your bank or through online banking.
- You are done. Convera will post the funds to your student account as soon as they are received, usually two to five days from when you make your transfer.
If you have any issues using Convera, please email studentsupport@convera.com for support.
If you have any issues using PayMyTuition, please email support@paymytuition.com for support. You can also call 1-855-663-6839 (toll-free within North America) or a local contact number in your country.
PayMyTuition is one of two authorized international payment vendors available for international students to pay their admission deposit and tuition fee payment. Using the PayMyTuition platform, you can pay your tuition payments from any bank, in any country, in any currency at better than bank exchange rates. PayMyTuition is fast, simple and cost effective.
Payments can take three to five business days to arrive. Please allow sufficient time between your payment and any payment deadlines for funds to arrive.
Online chargeback policy is applicable to all PayMyTuition payments. More details regarding the online chargeback policy can be found under the Policies section.
Additional information on PayMyTuition:
How to make a payment with PayMyTuition (video)
Step-by-step guides (PDF) on how to make a payment are available in many languages:
Students are encouraged to use an electronic payment method where possible. Couriered cheques may take longer to arrive and post to your student finance account.
Cheque payment can be mailed or couriered to:
OCAD University
Attention: Student Accounts
100 McCaul St.
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
Please include your full name and student ID number with all correspondence. Post-dated cheques are not accepted. There is a charge of $30 for each NSF (non-sufficient funds) or returned cheque.
Students are encouraged to use an electronic payment method where possible and during non office hours. In-person payments is currently unavailable.
Short-term payment plans are available for students to pay for their tuition fees in installments for the current term. Students are encouraged to visit the Financial Aid office prior to meeting with the Finance Department for a payment plan.
To be eligible, you must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate studies program with active registration and fees assessed for the term(s) covered by the payment plan. A payment plan can only be set up for the current term in which you are registered. Plans for retroactive terms are not permitted. You must be in good financial standing with OCAD University, with all past-due balances from previous terms paid, and you must be receiving income from an approved funding source recognized by OCAD University that is equal or greater than your total fee assessment.
Your completed application is due before the payment deadline of the applicable term. Full policies and details can be found in our payment plan application form (PDF).
Please email any questions regarding payment plans to studentaccounts@ocadu.ca.
If you are a sponsored student, and your fees are being paid in full by your sponsor, you can use one of the above payment methods to pay your fees OR you can request a deferment until your sponsorship payment is received by emailing a letter of sponsorship to mailto:studentaccounts@ocadu.ca before the payment deadline. Sponsors are invoiced on a term-basis after registration deadlines have passed for the applicable term. Students are expected to monitor their fees account to ensure payment has been made by their sponsor.
Sponsors are encouraged to pay their student's fees by electronic funds transfer (EFT) for faster payment processing (instead of couriered cheques). Please email studentaccounts@ocadu.ca for more information.
If you are receiving external third-party scholarships and/or bursaries not administered through OCAD University, and the scholarships and/or bursaries pay OCAD University directly, please forward payment(s) and award letter to:
OCAD University
Attention: Financial Aid
100 McCaul St.
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
Please email any questions to studentaccounts@ocadu.ca.
Admissions deposit
The Admission Deposit may be paid using any of the payment options stated above. Deposits will be credited toward assessed tuition fees. Admission deposits are non-refundable.
To learn more about the admission deposits, please visit the Guide to Admissions page.