Changes to Full-time International Fees for Fall 2023

With the rising cost of instruction and materials, these tuition and fee changes are necessary to allow BCIT to maintain the high-quality programs, student services, and learning environments that our students expect and need in order to thrive. Maintaining these commitments will help to support workforce development in BC and ensure that our graduates have the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their careers.

International tuition is higher by a fixed proportion (a “differential”) for all courses and programs—both full- and part-time—because it recovers the full costs of instruction, both direct and indirect. As costs increase – such as instructional materials, facilities costs to maintain classroom spaces, instructional supports such as peer tutoring, etc. – the differential must increase to cover them.

A market rate increase has been applied to programs’ international differentials, resulting in varying rates of increase for different programs. This approach was used to help normalize the differential rates applied across programs at BCIT, and to ensure that each BCIT programming remains competitive with other post-secondary institutions.

These changes are only applicable to international students in full-time technology and trades and technical studies programs. In an effort to reduce the impact to existing international students who will be returning in 2023-2024 to complete a full-time program that began prior to August 1, 2023, rates of increase may differ for new and returning students. This means that if you are a student who is continuing a program of study that began before August 1, 2023, BCIT is committed to ensuring that the rate of increase to your international differential for 2023-2024 academic terms in your program will be limited to 5%. Full tuition and differential rates, the rates currently being assessed to new international students, will apply to all new and returning students enrolled in any term within the 2024-2025 academic year (terms starting on or after August 1, 2024).

The full adjusted fee schedules for the 2023-24 academic year, including tuition and mandatory fees, are available on the International Students Tuition & Fees page.

In general, a returning student is defined as:

• An existing full-time student who is returning to complete subsequent terms in their current program of study,
• An existing full-time student who was approved to transfer into a new program at an advanced level, or
• A full-time student being re-admitted to an advanced level

If you are laddering between credentials – for example, you have graduated from a BCIT diploma program and are entering a BCIT degree program in the 2023-2024 academic year – you are considered a new student in that degree program and will be expected to pay the tuition and differential rate for new students.

All new students starting a full-time technology or trades and technical studies program on or after August 1, 2023, will be assessed the updated tuition and fees for the 2023-2024 academic year. The full adjusted fee schedules for the 2023-24 academic year, including tuition and mandatory fees, are available on the International Students Tuition & Fees page.