Tuition Fee Schedules Masters and PhD - Domestic Ontario

Tuition and incidental fee charges

University of Waterloo charges tuition one term at time, with three terms occurring over the course of a year:

Fall Term – September to December
Winter Term – January to April
Spring Term – May to August

Fees are due prior to the start of term. Student fee bills are posted on Quest approximately one month prior to the start of lectures each term. When the fee bills are posted, students are notified at their uwaterloo.ca e-mail address.

In addition to tuition fees, incidental fees are charged each term.  These fees help cover the costs of resources available to students. Incidental fees are compulsory, optional, or voluntary and are subject to change. For more information, visit the Incidental fees web page.

Graduate fee schedules

All amounts are shown in Canadian dollars.

For terms prior to fall 2023, all Canadian and permanent resident students were assessed the same tuition fees.  

Domestic Out of Province tuition fees will be charged to a subset of graduate programs starting in fall 2023. 

Domestic Ontario

Master's and graduate diploma programs

2024 - 2025 Spring 2024  Fall 2024  Winter 2025 
2023 - 2024 Spring 2023 Fall 2023  Winter 2024 
2022 - 2023 Spring 2022 Fall 2022 Winter 2023
2021 - 2022 Spring 2021 Fall 2021 Winter 2022
2020 - 2021 Spring 2020 Fall 2020 Winter 2021

Doctoral programs

2024- 2025 Spring 2024  Fall 2024  Winter 2025 
2023 - 2024 Spring 2023 Fall 2023  Winter 2024
2022 - 2023 Spring 2022 Fall 2022 Winter 2023
2021 - 2022 Spring 2021 Fall 2021 Winter 2022
2020 - 2021 Spring 2020 Fall 2020 Winter 2021