Financing Your Castle Education

The BISC experience represents an investment in your future; in an increasingly interdependent world, it will broaden your academic, personal, and professional horizons. The comprehensive program fee is broadly inclusive, and less expensive than the total cost of most study-abroad or international-exchange programs.

There are many ways to make the BISC experience financially accessible:

• Bursaries are available to those who demonstrate a financial need. Bursaries are available to all students, regardless of nationality or home university, who wish to study at the BISC. Please visit the Student Awards Website to learn more

• Funding opportunities are frequently obtainable through a student's home university and/or community

• Government assistance — from your home province, state, or country — is also possible in some cases

Fees

Fees include:

• Tuition

• Room and board: shared accommodation (2 students per room) and full meal plan

• Field studies trips: transportation, entrance fees and packed lunches, as well as accommodation and breakfast on overnight excursions

• Access to BISC facilities and services, including computing rooms, a library, and a fully equipped sports room

• Regular trips to (and borrowing privileges at) the libraries at the University of Sussex

• Frequent banking/shopping trips to nearby towns

• Transfers to and from Heathrow airport on designated dates

Program	Program Session	Cost**
First-Year Program	2012–2013 First-Year Program	$33,808
Upper-Year Program	Fall Term 2012	$16,904
	Winter Term 2013	$16,904
	Summer Session 2013	$8,763
	Field Schools Summer 2013	$5,200 - $6,600***
Global Law Program	Global Law Program 2013	$13,720*

* An additional administrative fee of $1058 is payable to the Queen's Faculty of Law.
**In the recent past, first-year tuition at the BISC has increased by 5%.
*** Prices for Summer Field Schools vary. Please visit the field school page for details.

 Note:

All fees are in Canadian Dollars

Program Fees do not include: Return airfare to and from London, visa cost, supplemental health insurance, textbooks and course supplies, personal expenses and laundry, or lunches and dinners on overnight excursions.

We are a charity institution, and we endeavour to keep tuition and residence fees as low as is commensurate with retaining the quality of our programs. Our fees will incorporate increase in tuition approved by the province of Ontario.

 

Awards and Bursaries

Queen's University is committed to making the unique and enriching BISC experience accessible to qualified applicants. To that end, Queen's has established a number of awards and bursaries to assist with the cost of attending the BISC.

BISC bursaries normally range in value up to half of the BISC program fees, depending on financial need.

Please visit the Student Awards Office website for application forms and specific information on the awards and bursaries available.