okay question. on the registrars website, student fees for this year are outlined. If I'm reading the document correctly ( which, let's face it, i may not be...) it looks as though for thirty units (full course load) for a third year humanities student tution will be $5679.57. It doesn't say whether or not this includes the $800 ish dollars for suplimentary fees. Does anyone know for sure if this tuition cost includes the sup fees? I really hope so...

Yes, it does include the 800$ worth of supplementary fees. I use this pdf to calculate costs:

http://www.mcmaster.ca/bms/student/p...s_included.pdf

I added up the tuition fees and the supplementary fees and got exactly 5769.57$ Neato!

Apparently tuition went up quite a bit this year then...shit.

i just calculated it and, for me, it went up $200.00. *sigh*. there goes every penny I earned this summer...
life story of a student.

Mine went up about $900 this year; but I took 24 units last year.

I know, this sucks... I never knew how much university cost until this year when i decided i will try and pay for it myself.... shouldn't have offered. lol

I think the cost went up about 15$ per unit. Cause I remember looking at one just a couple weeks ago and it must have been an older one because for me, Eng 3, it said that each unit was 190$ and now it's 205$. And when you've got 40 units, that's a lot of money. :(

So I've got a question that's kind of related to this topic: I was looking at these pages

http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /CALEN...nt/pg2013.html
http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /CALEN...nt/pg2014.html

And comparing to my actual tuition costs, and it seems like there's a little extra tacked on. With my calculations, I got $7184.28 as my tuition fees, and $982.13 for my supplementary fees. My actual payment agreement says I owe a lot more though; $7249.82 and $1104.05, respectively. Does anyone know where theis discrepancy might come from?

I was also wondering about the Base Per Unit Tuition Per Faculty. Is the cost simply dependent on the faculty you're in, and not the specific courses? Or is it determined by courses individually?

I.e. I'm in level II Engineering. I have 37 units, 34 of which are required for my program and 3 of which are administered by the faculty of Science (Chem 1AA3). Should it just be 37 x 197.43? Or do I pay for my 37 units in Engineering and 3 units of Science? If the second one is true, do my Math courses count as Sciences? What about electives?

To put things in perspective, I've been hearing that York students are experiencing close to a $55 per course increase from last year. York, york, hoo ra ra!

Originally Posted by Entropy

I was also wondering about the Base Per Unit Tuition Per Faculty. Is the cost simply dependent on the faculty you're in, and not the specific courses? Or is it determined by courses individually?

Each and every unit charged to you, the cost is determined by the faculty you are in and not by what faculty the course is. (It's stupid but true!)

Just so we're all on the same page, the supplementary fees are different for each faculty because, naturally, different faculties use different resources which cost different amounts. A science lab for instance, costs more than renting a tutorial room.

However, even though it should be easy enough to determine your fees based on what faculty the course is in, Mac just chooses not to.

So engineers taking say, social science electives, pay for them as though they were engineering courses...ie. Mac makes a bit more money for these, since the supplementaries fees are greater than the cost of taking the course.

So you might think, what about people in faculties with less expensive courses, taking more expensive electives?

...

Doesn't happen because those courses require registration in a specific faculty (like Engineering).

So Mac disguises it as laziness...but word to wise is, it's a money-making con. Even $5-ish per elective unit per student is quite a bit of money...and it's a fair bit more than that.