Exemptions for persons residing in Canada | Tuition fees

Depending on your situation and your study program, you could be eligible for a lower tuition rate based on the exemption categories below. To receive these rates, you must have legal status in Canada.

Residence in Quebec

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You will receive the Quebec tuition rate if you are a resident of Quebec according to one of the criteria below:

You are a person born in Quebec or registered in the Quebec register of civil status.
You have a Québec Selection Certificate.
You meet one of the criteria listed in on the Attestation of Québec Residence Status form (PDF, 331 KB).

Documents to provide

If you studied in a subsidized public Cégep program, you do not need to provide any documents.

You are a person born in Quebec or registered in the Quebec register of civil status

Your birth certificate issued by the Directeur de l'état civil, complete with your father’s name, your mother’s name, and where in Quebec you were born (short form not accepted). This document must be certified if the place of birth is in a province other than Quebec or a country other than Canada.

You have a Québec Selection Certificate

Documents proving your legal status
Quebec Selection Certificate

You meet one of the criteria on the attestation form

The Attestation of Québec Residence Status form (PDF, 331 KB) duly completed (one of the situations must be selected).
The document(s) related to the selected situation.
The sworn statement for the situation 6 (PDF, 52 KB) or the situation 8 (PDF, 53 KB).

PhD Program

If you are a resident of Quebec according to the criteria in the Residence in Quebec category, you are not eligible for this exemption.

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You will receive the Quebec tuition rate if you are enrolled in a PhD program.

Documents to provide

Documents proving your legal status.

Study programs in French

If you are a resident of Quebec according to the criteria in the Residence in Quebec category, you are not eligible for this exemption.

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You will receive the Quebec tuition rate if you are enrolled in one of the following programs:

Certificates
Short Graduate Programs (D.E.S.S.)
Short Undergraduate Programs
Short Graduate Programs
Master’s degrees offered in French excluding the following specializations:
- International Business
- Social Innovation Management
- Private and Public Sectors
- Management of Cultural Enterprises (before fall 2024)

Exclusions

Does not apply for courses outside your program. In such cases, the Canadian tuition rate applies along with a supplemental increase.

Documents to provide

Documents proving your legal status.
A valide proof of a Canadian address from the following list:
- A health insurance card issued by the Quebec government, another Canadian province, or a Canadian territory;
- A valid driver’s licence or learner’s licence for Quebec, another Canadian province, or a Canadian territory;
- A municipal or school tax bill (max. one year ago);
- Record of employment or pay slip (max. three months ago);
- Certificate or statement of home or car insurance (max. one year ago);
- Mail received from the government (max. one year ago);
- Transcripts issued by a school in Canada (max. one year ago).
The Attestation of Québec Residence Status form (PDF, 331 KB), on which you have written that none of these situations applies to you.

For more information

Study in French in Quebec (website in French only)

Business French language courses

If you are a resident of Quebec according to the criteria in the Residence in Quebec category, you are not eligible for this exemption.

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You will receive the Quebec tuition rate for your French language courses.

Exclusions

Does not apply to Business French Summer or Winter school.

Documents to provide

Documents proving your legal status.

Request from a professional order

If you are a resident of Quebec according to the criteria in the Residence in Quebec category, you are not eligible for this exemption.

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You can receive the Quebec tuition rate if professional order or organization overseeing a regulated profession in Quebec has issued a request for you to take a course.

Documents to provide

Documents proving your legal status.
A request issued by a professional order.

You must submit the required documents at HEC en ligne > Documents > Documents upload, before the end of the term. You will not be able to make retroactive changes.

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This page is a summary of the applicable rules. For details, see the Budgetary rules and calculation of operating grants to Quebec universities (in French).