Respond to Your Offer
Offer of Admission Letters
Your official offer letter is the one that has been added to your application via the School of Graduate Studies . You will not receive a paper admission package in the mail.
Your offer letter provides important information about your studies, including:
- Start date (when your program begins);
- Status (full-time, part-time);
- Graduate unit;
- Degree and program name;
- Faculty advisor (designated by some programs, an OISE professor who can give you academic guidance and support); and
- Program requirements.
Further details about your program requirements can be found in the by graduate department:
Please note, links will direct you to the 2023-2024 SGS Calendar and will be updated to the 2024-2025 Calendar when it becomes available.
You are Required to Accept or Decline Your Offer
Your offer letter includes a Confirmation Form. Once you decide whether to accept or decline the offer of admission, complete, sign, date the form and upload it to the on your Application Status page as the “Admission Confirmation Form”.
Please respond to your offer within three weeks from the date of the offer letter or your offer may be cancelled. If you decline your offer or the offer is cancelled, you must formally re-apply if you want to be considered for future admission.
Note: Cancelling your registration status (e.g. from INVIT to FINCA) via the University of Toronto's web-based student information service tool () is not equivalent to declining an offer of admission and will not appropriately update your record. To officially decline an offer of admission, you must complete, sign, and date the applicable Confirmation Form and upload it to the on your Application Status page as the “Admission Confirmation Form”.
Did you apply to more than one OISE program?
A student can only register and pursue one single OISE program of study at one time. So, you are allowed to accept one offer of admission at a time.
If you receive multiple OISE offers of admission, you must tell us which program you wish to undertake. You should complete and upload all Confirmation Forms for which you received an offer of admission, indicating Accept or Decline as appropriate.
If you are waiting for a result letter from multiple OISE programs, you should complete and upload the Confirmation Form for which you received an offer of admission. If you originally Accept an offer and later receive an offer of admission to another OISE program that you prefer, you should upload a Confirmation Form indicating Decline for the originally accepted offer plus a Confirmation Form indicating Accept for the new offer.
Overall, we will assume the most recent Confirmation Form indicating Accept you upload is accurate and valid, and all previous Accepts to other offers will be automatically declined.
Delaying or Deferring Your Start Date
Admission is only valid for the date stated on your offer of admission in the "Program Begins" section (e.g., September 2024).
Applicants unable to attend the session for which they have been accepted must re-apply and compete with other applicants for admission to a later session. Enrolling in courses or registering for an alternate start date is impossible unless special approval is granted by the Registrar's Office & Student Experience.
Note: Newly admitted students can request a delay/deferral of start date beginning April 15, 2024 (not before).
In exceptional circumstances, a program may approve a start date delay from Fall session (September) to the Winter session (January). It is important to note that a delay of start is rarely granted and should only be requested if you are unable to start in the Fall session.
To request a delay of start, you must accept your offer of admission but you should not be registered in a program for the Fall session (i.e., no tuition fees paid). Students who are registered in the Fall and are approved for a delay of start will not receive a tuition refund. If your request is denied, you will need to reapply for Fall 2025.
The last day to request a delay of start is November 1, 2024.
To request a delay of start please email admissions.oise@utoronto.ca with your request and a member of our ¥ Team will add the deferral form to the appropriate application on . Please complete the deferral request form as per the instructions outlined. All requests are subject to approval and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Note, a delay of start is not possible for the following programs:
- Adult Education and Community Development: MA (full-time), funded PhD
- Child Study and Education: MA, EdD
- Counselling and Clinical Psychology: MA, funded PhD
- Counselling Psychology: EdD, Counselling and Psychotherapy field, School Psychology field
- Counselling Psychology: MEd, Counselling and Psychotherapy field, Global Mental Health field, Guidance and Counselling field
- Developmental Psychology and Education: MEd, MA, funded PhD, flex-time PhD
- Master of Teaching
- School and Clinical Child Psychology: MA, funded PhD
In exceptional circumstances, a program may approve a deferral of admission for a maximum of twelve months (e.g., from September 2024 to September 2025). Please note that a deferral of admission is rarely granted and should only be requested if it is impossible for you to start in the Fall 2024 session.
To request a deferral to Fall 2025, you must accept your offer of admission but you should not be registered in a program for the Fall session (i.e., no tuition fees paid). Students who are registered in the Fall, and are approved for a deferral, will not receive a tuition refund. If your request is denied, you will need to reapply for Fall 2025.
If your deferral of admission request is approved, be aware that any changes made to the degree program requirements will be applicable when you begin your program. As well, an official transcript is required to document any new post-secondary study completed during the interim period.
The last day to request a deferral is:
- July 30, 2024, for the Master of Teaching and the Master of Arts in Child Study & Education programs
- Note: Deferral requests related to employment and financial circumstances are not approved by the Master of Teaching program.
- September 15, 2024, for all other programs
To request a deferral please email admissions.oise@utoronto.ca with your request and a member of our ¥ Team will add the deferral form to the appropriate application on . Please complete the deferral request form as per the instructions outlined. All requests are subject to approval and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Note, a deferral is not possible for the following programs:
- Adult Education and Community Development: MA, funded PhD
- Counselling and Clinical Psychology: MA, funded PhD
- Counselling Psychology: MEd, Counselling and Psychotherapy field, Guidance and Counselling field
- Curriculum and Pedagogy: MA, funded PhD
- Developmental Psychology and Education: MA, funded PhD, flex-time PhD
- Higher Education: MEd, MA, EdD, funded PhD, flex-time PhD
- Language and Literacies Education: MA, funded PhD
- School and Clinical Child Psychology: MA, funded PhD
Changing Your Registration Status
Admission is only valid for the registration status stated in your offer of admission. It will show either full-time or part-time.
To request a change of registration status please email admissions.oise@utoronto.ca detailing your request. All requests are subject to approval and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Note, the following programs are full-time only and do not permit part-time registration:
- All funded PhD programs
- Child Study and Education
- Counselling and Clinical Psychology: MA
- Counselling Psychology: EdD
- Counselling Psychology: MEd, Global Mental Health field
- Developmental Psychology and Education: MA
- Language and Literacies Education: MEd, Language Teaching field
- Master of Teaching
- School and Clinical Child Psychology: MA
Tuition Fee Deposit (Teacher Education Programs Only)
If you accept an offer of admission to the Master of Teaching program or the Master of Arts in Child Study & Education program, you must pay a $300.00 non-refundable tuition deposit by June 1 to hold your admission space in the program. Submission of the deposit constitutes acknowledgment that this fee is non-refundable. When studies in the program begin, the deposit will be credited toward applicable tuition fees.
Payment of the tuition deposit is not a substitute for formally accepting an offer of admission. You must formally accept your offer by completing and submitting the Confirmation Form found in your offer letter within three weeks of the date found on your offer letter.
Occasionally an offer of admission is presented very close to the June 1 deadline or later. If so, the tuition deposit should be paid within seven business days from the date of the offer of admission.
Make an online Mastercard or Visa credit card payment by logging in to your . Use the JOINid credentials that were e-mailed to you when you completed and submitted your online admissions application.
If you have been offered admission to more than one program, be very careful to direct your payment to the program you confirmed (Confirmation Form uploaded) and want to undertake.
It can take two to three business days upon receipt of payment to record the deposit in your ACORN account. It is your responsibility to ensure the deposit payment has been recorded in your ACORN account by the deadline.
There is a convenience fee when paying online, which is billed by the Moneris credit card service provider. This fee is non-refundable, even if you decide not to study at the University of Toronto. This convenience fee is charged at a rate of 2.25% of the fee payment. It is billed directly by Moneris and is not remitted to the University of Toronto.
