University of Guelph total cost

Tuition and compulsory fees

Program basis: Bachelor of Arts, full-time at 2.0 credits or more per semester (flat rate), two semesters, from the university Student Financial Success Guide 2025-26.. The same basis is used for every category in this table. Where the university publishes tuition and compulsory fees separately, both lines are shown; where it publishes one combined figure, the split is marked as not published rather than estimated.

First-year planning total by category

Each total below adds the category tuition and fees to the published residence and meal plan figure. No books and supplies figure is added, because the school does not publish one on the pages we checked; add your own course costs before treating the total as complete. When residence is published as a range, the total is shown as the same range.

Residence and meal plan

Calculated sum of two published components for 2025-2026: double residence room $8,580 plus full meal plan $6,800. Guelph published ranges are room $7,900 to $11,116 and meal plan $5,500 to $7,600 on its Canadian funding page, so the billed figure depends on the room and plan chosen.

Published figure: CA$15,380 CAD. Source: University of Guelph, Student Financial Success Guide 2025-26, 2025-2026, verified 2026-10-05. A residence range is not a promise of the lowest-cost room; placement, room type, and meal plan tier decide the billed amount.

Scholarships and aid

No published average aid figure: Guelph publishes named awards and aggregate aid totals, not a per-student average on the pages checked.

Only a written offer from University of Guelph confirms an award for a specific student. An entrance award headline does not reduce the planning total until its amount, eligibility, and renewal rule are in that offer.

City context

No city unemployment or rent figure is published on this page yet. Canada has no single federal file that matches the United States school data groups field for field, so this page does not borrow a figure from a rental listing site or a national average and present it as local fact. Budget off-campus rent from current listings near Guelph and confirm the lease term before comparing it with residence.

A worksheet before borrowing

1. Choose the student category first. At University of Guelph, the local tuition and fees line is CA$7,859 CAD and the international line is CA$48,528 to CA$49,077 CAD for 2025-2026; the category decision is worth CA$40,669 CAD per year before housing.
2. Add the residence and meal plan figure that matches the room you would actually accept, not only the lowest published room.
3. Subtract only awards named in a written offer. Published entrance awards above are possibilities to investigate, not deductions.
4. Price four years by repeating the first-year planning total, then test a yearly increase as your own scenario. The university has not forecast your later-year fees on this page.
5. Keep the currency pinned: every figure in the worksheet for this school is CAD.

Before you treat this as your price

• Confirm the academic year and the program. Professional and deregulated programs can carry different fees.
• Confirm residency status with the university. Citizenship, permanent residence, and provincial residence are separate questions.
• Check the housing tier and meal plan behind the residence figure.
• Use only a written aid offer as a confirmed scholarship amount.

Record notes

• A BA-specific tuition figure for domestic students from outside Ontario was not published on the official pages checked; only a program-wide range exists, so no non-Ontario BA line is shown rather than estimating one.
• International compulsory fees are published as a range, and health insurance is separate; the international line above is tuition until those published additions are applied.