TORONTO, September 27, 2005
The President and Vice-Chancellor of York University, Lorna R. Marsden, has announced that the University will not increase tuition fees for most of its graduate programs for 2006/07 and 2007/08.
“At York University, we want to give our current and incoming graduate students the certainty of knowing their tuition will not increase for a full two years after the current 2005/06 freeze,” said Marsden. The tuition freeze will apply to all graduate programs at York, except for the following professional programs: MBA, IMBA, EMBA, MPA, part-time LLM, MHRM and MDes.
President Marsden continued, “As Ontario’s second-largest graduate school, we welcome the strong endorsement by the Government of Ontario of the future of graduate programs in today’s global knowledge economy. We are pleased to be an important part of that effort.”
Vice-President Academic Sheila Embleton added, “We are concerned about accessibility to these graduate programs and want to continue to recruit and retain excellent graduate students.”
The Government of Ontario has frozen tuition fees across Ontario for 2004/05 and 2005/06. The government has not announced its intentions with respect to tuition fees beyond 2005/06 and is currently working, in consultation with students, colleges and universities, to develop a new tuition framework to be in place for September 2006. Several groups at York have been actively involved in these discussions to date and will continue to participate in the consultation process.
York University has one of the largest graduate programs in Canada and the second-largest in Ontario in terms of graduate enrolment, with over 5,100 graduate students enrolled in 43 masters and doctoral programs across York’s 10 faculties. Graduate programs span interdisciplinary and traditional programs ranging from education to history, nursing to social work, political science to earth and space science, and environmental studies to urban and regional planning.
For more information, contact:
Nancy J. White
Director, Media Relations
York University
416-736-5603
