I completed my course registration for 2015-2016 academic year on MOSAIC. Since this morning, i noticed that my current balance on mosaic went up by almost $1000. I am currently in Lv4 of Computer Eng, enrolled in a total of 36 units for fall/winter academic year. Every course that I have enrolled in is part of my course requirement (which also includes 2 technical electives). I was under the impression that we pay for only 33 units (Engineering) and an overload fee would apply for registration in more than the required course load, including cancelled courses.


Here's what I found online for the breakdown:
http://www.mcmaster.ca/bms/student/p...ngineering.pdf

Based on this, should I not be expecting a balance roughly around $11000-$11500 for the year (including supplementary fees)? Am I missing something here?


Any information would help !

Thanks

Did you factor in supplementary fees? I paid almost 1200 in supplementary last year

Yes, I did factor in supplementary fees to get to the total figure. As per the PDF doc (2014-2015), 33 units would cost me roughly $10700 + $1500 but they still do not add up (could possibly vary this year). I'm trying to understand how the tuition fees charged to a max 33 units apply to ENG programs? Not sure if I should be considering technical electives (also from ENG disciplines) also as part of the 'required course load' ?

Your term 1 capstone probably just appeared in your timetable. Mine did, and my fees went up by almost $700.

Yeah I have the same issue, they are charging you for every unit. I viewed the breakdown of the fees on Mosaic and the supplementary add up to 1325 (including 100 for coop) so 1225 if you're not enrolled in co-op. Which leaves the rest to be for tuition and if you divide it by term I get exactly 308 cost per unit which is a reasonable increase from last year (about 2.67%).

As to why they are charging each unit I'm not sure. Could either be a mistake on Mosaic or, most likely, they changed their policy and now want to charge for every unit (i.e no more max 33 for engineering, instead charge you for all 36 units).

It's Mac so I'm not really surprised if they did that. In the last few years they have been really trying to milk out every penny in any way they can.

I just talked to someone from student accounts and they said that starting next week, we're only going to be charged for 34 units for engineering

So hopefully, there is some reduction in the total tuition fees by next week (i.e. for those with over 34 units for the academic year 2015/2016 - Eng program) . I am also waiting for a response from student accounts on this.

Are you in coop? The fees are also going to be added there