Appendix D

Tuition fee policy, governmentfunded programs

On March 2, 2023, the MCU released the 2023-24 tuition fee framework for domestic students in Ontario. The framework set out the following:

1. Continue the tuition fee freeze for domestic students at 2022-23 levels (applicable for all years of study).

2. Provide institutions the flexibility to increase tuition fees for domestic out-of-province students up to 5% (applicable for all years of study).

3. Subject to the submission of an application and ministry approval, tuition fee increases over a multiyear timeframe will be permitted for certain programs with lower-than-average tuition rates for comparable programs (applicable to firstyear incoming students starting 2023-24). Tuition adjustments for these programs are referred to as Tuition Anomalies.

Brock University will increase the tuition fees for undergraduate domestic out-of-province students by 5.0 per cent starting in the fall term; however, this increase will not be implemented for graduate students. As at the time of preparing this report, the University has submitted applications for tuition anomalies but has yet to receive ministry approval. The fee changes for the 2023-24 academic year are detailed in Figure 122.

Tuition fee policy, non-government-funded programs

International students in undergraduate and graduate programs and cost-recovery programs are not eligible for provincial government funding, and therefore universities are not governed by the government’s tuition policy in setting tuition rates for this student group. A differentiated approach is taken to account for demand after benchmarking to fees charged at other Ontario universities. Starting in 2022-23, a cohort model was introduced for undergraduate international tuition rates where each year, Year 1 students will see an eight per cent increase followed by rates frozen for four additional years. Figure 123 details the 2023-24 non-government-funded program rates that were proposed to and approved by the Board of Trustees in December 2022.

Intensive English Language Program (IELP) (online) 54.0%

Intensive English Language Program (IELP) (in person) 36.0%