Differential Fee Waivers (DFWs) for International Students
Differential Fee Waivers cover the difference between International Tuition and Quebec Resident Tuition fees.
External DFWs 鈥� Bilateral Between Qu茅bec and Other Governments
External DFWs, or Quebec Exemptions,聽are available from a number of external sources, including the Minist猫re de l'脡ducation et de l'Enseignement sup茅rieur (MEES).聽
Qu茅bec government grants DFWs to staff and dependants of consulates, foreign government offices, international governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, refugees, immigrants with a work permit containing the case type 07, 08, 20, 22, 23 or 26 with the name of an employer and location that is necessarily situated in Qu茅bec, and to students in MEES-approved inter-university exchanges.
Please note that only 20% of the exemptions for a given country or agency can be used in English universities in Qu茅bec, including McGill.
Students sponsored by a foreign agency holding an agreement with McGill University聽(CONACyT, Islamic Development Bank, etc.)聽are聽required to apply to Quebec exemptions聽if they hold citizenship聽from an eligible country,聽with the exception of CSC recipients. China Scholarship Council (CSC) recipients are no longer required to apply聽for External DFWs.聽They will still receive the funding that was offered to them when they applied for CSC. However, they are strongly encouraged to apply for FRQ funding after their first year of studies at McGill.
Eligibility
A certain number of citizens from countries whose governments have entered into agreements on tuition fees with Qu茅bec may be exempted from the supplemental tuition fees normally required of international students. All French citizens and a limited number of citizens from other countries who have established such agreements are eligible for such exemptions.
For more information on how to qualify for DFWs under these provisions, please visit the聽
How to Apply
- Determine whether there are bilateral exemptions for your country, by consulting the聽.
- If your country or affiliated agency has a bilateral exemption, contact the聽.
- Apply to the country or agency by that agency's deadline (the agency will inform you of its specific deadline).
- After their own selection process, the country will nominate their selected candidates to the Qu茅bec government, who will in turn perform the final selection, and inform the candidate and the University.
Internal DFWs
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies聽allocates DFWs to McGill University faculties for international Doctoral students, and exceptionally to international Thesis Master鈥檚 students for each academic year. Only international students who are聽allocated a DFW, by their respective聽faculties,聽are exempt from the international tuition supplement.
Eligibility
Registration Requirements
If a student withdraws or is withdrawn from the University during the eligibility period, the DFW may be revoked. Removal of the DFW聽will聽result in the student having to pay full international student fees for the term in question.