Your Money
We collect student fees which are used to provide programming and services that invest in developing skills, fostering friendships, and improving student life.
Overview
Your fees, your benefits. Understand how your contributions shape your student experience.
Transparency
We believe in financial transparency. We provide a detailed breakdown of how your student fees are allocated to various services and programs.
Student-Centric Spending
Your fees fund services that support your well-being, provide collaborative spaces, and improve student life through advocacy and leadership.
Fee Allocation
We offer a clear breakdown of OTSU fees. For a complete list of all ancillary fees, refer to Ontario Tech's ancillary fee breakdown.
Mandatory Fees
Used to provide essential services such as student representation and advocacy, facility maintenance and mortgage for student union spaces, and legally-required costs like insurance and financial audits.
Campus Clubs
Funding goes to clubs so they can create spaces to pursue personal and professional development, connect with and support like-minded students, and contribute to their communities.
Campus Life and Events
Goes toward creating a vibrant, inclusive student culture, and give you a well-rounded post-secondary experience that prepares you for life during and after university. This fee funds everything from O-Week to Pangaea.
Benefits Plan Coordination
Goes toward implementing the student Health & Dental Plan, including the negotiation and management of the plan, and opt-out processes.
Student Union Building
Covers the maintenance, repairs, operating costs, and administration expenses of the student union’s spaces.
Building Mortgage
Covers the mortgage expenses, depreciation, and capital refresh for the student union’s physical spaces on campus.
Wellness and Support Services
Funds the OTSU’s Wellness Centre space as well as mental health and wellbeing resources and programs that focus on student wellness.
Student Representation and Leadership
Fees go toward providing student representation and leadership at the university and overseeing essential student services.
Community and Social Programming
Goes toward creating healthy communities and a balanced, just, and prosperous society. The OTSU facilitates, supports, sparks, informs and provides spaces for people to come together, generate new ideas and take action. Nurturing community leadership, particularly through participatory programming, civic engagement and skills-building programs.
OTSU Student Societies
Funds the activities and opportunities provided by each faculty’s student society. Societies provide students with opportunities to employ knowledge and skills learned in the classroom, and are a platform to meet new friends, have fun, and learn something new. All students pay a small society fee, and students enrolled in the faculties of engineering, business and IT, science, or health science pay an additional levy. Levy fees are instituted at the behest of the individual society and are voted upon by students through a referendum.
Voluntary Fees
These fees are charged to students upon registration, but students can choose to opt out of them by a designated deadline to receive a refund.
Health and Dental Plan
This fee provides full-time students with coverage for vision, prescription drugs, paramedical, medical equipment, and more.
If you choose to opt out of the plan, proof of alternative coverage is required and you must opt out by the opt out deadline. You may also add eligible family members to your plan prior to the opt-out deadline.
My Virtual Doctor
This fee provides full-time students with virtual access to healthcare, anytime, anywhere! Students can see a physician or nurse care practitioner with limited wait times, with the ease of not having to leave their home. Students can add their dependents to their myvirtualdoctor account for no extra cost.
Legal Support
This fee provides students with access to legal representation for and consultation at no additional cost. Legal support is for academic, employment, and housing disputes, and covers costs for things like lawyer and court fees, legal opinions and research, and legal expenses (disbursements).
Financial Statements
Every June, at the end of each fiscal year, the OTSU undergoes a rigorous third-party financial audit—currently conducted by the firm Baker-Tilly—to ensure that our financial health is at its peak condition, and that we’re transparent and accountable to our student body. A financial statement that outlines the OTSU’s finances is produced after each audit, and all of our past financial statements are here for students to review.
