Glossary of terms

Pricing and costing, refund schedule glossary

Administrative fee	Deducted from eligible tuition deposit refunds (those refund requests greater than 30 calendar days prior to program start).
Application fee	The intent of the application fee is to cover the administrative costs of processing an application form for a student in a specific program regardless of geographic location. It is a one-time fee per program per academic year.
Applied Learning & Lab fee	Includes costs associated with consumable and non-consumable resources associated with the development and implementation of the program offering, including lab facilities (including computer labs).
Audit	A student takes a credit course with all associated fees payable and may access the instructor for questions but does not participate in any evaluation of work and receives no grade for the course.
Continuing student	A student who is undertaking studies in two or more consecutive program years. If there is a break of an academic year or more before studies continue, the student will be assessed the application fee once again.
Foreign Credential Recognition Assessment	This is a process by which a potential international student or a domestic student with a foreign transcript submits secondary and/or post-secondary transcripts from his or her home country to be assessed in comparison to Saskatchewan secondary and/or post-secondary standards. May be completed by a post-secondary institution with this capacity, or by an external service such as IQAS (International Qualification Assessment Service).
Late fee	A fee charged when the amounts owing by the student are not paid before the applicable deadline as identified in GPC’s Late Fee Guidelines.
Learning Supports & Technology fee	The learning supports portion covers program and course learning material. The technology portion covers the costs of providing mobile and other types of connectivity on and off campus.
Program fees	May include Applied Learning & Lab fee, Learning Supports & Technology fee, Exam sitting and Licensing fees
Restocking fee	A charge levied to return unsold student textbooks to the originator’s inventory.
Student fee	Composition of the student fee is threefold: A portion to cover costs associated with student activities at a specific location A $10 printing credit for each student (FT or PT). A portion ($30 for full-time students and $10 for part-time students) to cover facility enhancements and upkeep at each program location..
Tuition deposit	The intent of the tuition deposit is to secure a seat in a specific full-time program (regardless of program location) in a specific program year. The tuition deposit is included in the total tuition paid.