Co-op students are responsible for paying tuition for their academic courses, ancillary fees, and levies. All Trent students are charged ancillary fees every Fall & Winter term. Co-op students will experience the same cycle for their ancillary fee payments regardless of when they are out on work terms. Co-op students do not pay tuition during their work terms.
Co-op students are responsible for paying a compulsory $750 co-op fee five times during their degree program. The co-op fee will be applied to your student account in Year 2 Fall, Year 2 Winter, Year 3 Fall, Year 3 Winter, and Year 4 Fall. For students in the 5-year Kinesiology program, the co-op fee will be applied to your account in Year 3 Fall, Year 3 Winter, Year 4 Fall, Year 4 Winter and Year 5 Fall.
How your fees are utilized
Your co-op fee goes towards a variety of aspects involved in the administration of our Co-op streams at Trent. This includes funding resource development, fostering employer relationships, and new job development. Funding also supports infrastructure and administration of the Co-op programs across departments at Trent.
OSAP and co-op funding
Co-op students are eligible to apply for OSAP during their study terms. You can also apply for full-time funding while completing your work term, which will help with living costs and other expenditures.
Application process
Each semester of study or work term(s) requires a new OSAP application. This is because your expenses and income will have changed each semester.
If you’re completing academic studies in the Fall semester, you would choose as your program:
- GENFALL1 (1st years)
- GENFALL2 (2nd years)
- GENFALL3 (3rd years)
- GENFALL4 (4th years)
If you’re studying in the Winter semester, it would be the same but GENWINTER (1st years), etc.
For work term semesters, please select a specific work term option. For example, a First-Year student would select CWT1 and choose from three options:
- CWT1F (Fall)
- CWT1W (Winter)
- CWT1S (Summer)
The same format applies for 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year students.
Co-op Assistance Program
Co-op students are eligible to apply for the Co-op Assistance Program which is a dedicated financial resource for co-op students. The purpose of the bursary is to support students in financial need by helping with the costs of the mandatory co-op fees along with other expenses incurred during their work terms.
The Co-op Assistance Program is a bursary which is awarded on the basis of proven financial need. To demonstrate financial need, co-op students must be in receipt of OSAP, Canada part-time student loans, First Nations Band funding, or the government financial aid program of their home province.
Co-op students must apply for this bursary by completing the ‘Co-op Assistance Program’ form found on the MyTrent portal under Finances > Careerspace. This form will be available every academic term and must be submitted no later than four weeks before the start of your next work term.
For further information or questions about the Co-op Assistance Program, please contact coop@trentu.ca