Respond to Your Offer
Offer of Admission Letters
Your official offer letter is the one that has been added to your application via the School of Graduate Studies online admissions application. You will not receive a paper admission package in the mail.
Your offer letter provides important information about your studies, including:
- Start date (when your program begins);
- Status (full-time, part-time);
- Graduate unit;
- Degree and program name;
- Faculty advisor (designated by some programs, an OISE professor who can give you academic guidance and support); and
- Program requirements.
Further details about your program requirements can be found in the School of Graduate Studies Calendar by graduate department:
- Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
- Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
- Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
- Department of Social Justice Education
Please note, links will direct you to the 2022-2023 SGS Calendar and will be updated to the 2023-2024 Calendar when it becomes available.
You are Required to Accept or Decline Your Offer
Your offer letter includes a Confirmation Form. Once you decide whether to accept or decline the offer, complete, sign, date the form and upload it to your application profile as a document.
Please respond to your offer within three weeks from the date of the offer letter or your offer may be cancelled. If you decline your offer or the offer is cancelled, you must formally re-apply if you want to be considered for future admission.
Delaying or Deferring Your Start Date
Admission is only valid for the date stated on your offer of admission in the "Program Begins" section (e.g., September 2023).
Applicants unable to attend the session for which they have been accepted must re-apply and compete with other applicants for admission to a later session. Enrolling in courses or registering for an alternate start date is impossible unless special approval is granted by the Registrar's Office & Student Experience.
Note: Typically, the Registrar's Office & Student Experience will consider deferral of admission or delay to Winter session requests from newly admitted students as of the beginning of April (not before). For newly admitted students to the September class, requests for deferral or admission or delay to the Winter session will be considered no sooner than the beginning of May.
In exceptional circumstances, a program may approve a start date delay from Fall session (September) to the Winter session (January). Please note that a delay of start is rarely granted and should only be requested if you are unable to start in the Fall session.
To request a delay of start, you must accept your offer of admission but you should not be registered in a program for the Fall session (i.e., no tuition fees paid). Students who are registered in the Fall and are approved for a delay of start will not receive a tuition refund. If your request is denied, you will need to reapply for Fall 2024.
The last day to request a delay of start is November 1, 2023. Details for how to request a Delay of Start will be posted here in April 2023.
In exceptional circumstances, a program may approve a deferral of admission for a maximum of twelve months (e.g., from September 2023 to September 2024). Please note that a deferral of admission is rarely granted and should only be requested if it is impossible for you to start in the Fall 2023 session.
To request a deferral to Fall 2024, you must accept your offer of admission but you should not be registered in a program for the Fall session (i.e., no tuition fees paid). Students who are registered in the Fall, and are approved for a deferral, will not receive a tuition refund. If your request is denied, you will need to reapply for Fall 2024.
If your deferral of admission request is approved, be aware that any changes made to the degree program requirements will be applicable when you begin your program. As well, an official transcript is required to document any new post-secondary study completed during the interim period.
The last day to request a deferral is:
- July 30, 2023, for the Master of Teaching and the Master of Arts in Child Study & Education programs
- September 15, 2023, for all other programs
Details for how to request a deferral will be posted here in April 2023.
Changing Your Registration Status
Admission is only valid for the registration status stated in your offer of admission. It will show either full-time or part-time.
The first day to request a change in registration status is April 15, 2023. Details for how to request a deferral will be posted here in April 2023.
Tuition Fee Deposit (Teacher Education Programs Only)
If you accept an offer of admission to the Master of Teaching program or the Master of Arts in Child Study & Education program, you must pay a $300.00 non-refundable tuition deposit by June 1 to hold your admission space in the program. Submission of the deposit constitutes acknowledgment that this fee is non-refundable. When studies in the program begin, the deposit will be credited toward applicable tuition fees.
Payment of the tuition deposit is not a substitute for formally accepting an offer of admission. You must formally accept your offer by completing and submitting the Confirmation Form found in your offer letter within three weeks of the date found on your offer letter.
Occasionally an offer of admission is presented very close to the June 1 deadline or later. If so, the tuition deposit should be paid within seven business days from the date of the offer of admission.
Make an online Mastercard or Visa credit card payment by logging in to your ACORN account. Use the JOINid credentials that were e-mailed to you when you completed and submitted your online admissions application.
If you have been offered admission to more than one program, be very careful to direct your payment to the program you confirmed (Confirmation Form uploaded) and want to undertake.
It can take two to three business days upon receipt of payment to record the deposit in your ACORN account. It is your responsibility to ensure the deposit payment has been recorded in your ACORN account by the deadline.
There is a convenience fee when paying online, which is billed by the Moneris credit card service provider. This fee is non-refundable, even if you decide not to study at the University of Toronto. This convenience fee is charged at a rate of 2.25% of the fee payment. It is billed directly by Moneris and is not remitted to the University of Toronto.
