Those are including the mandatory none instructional fees. The first 3 years were taking a full 30 credit course load, 2005-06 was when I was doing my industrial internship and took 2 courses to get the out of the way (plus ~$700 a term for “work experience”) and 2006-07 was 8 courses, and tuition was the same as 2004-05 because of the temporary tuition freeze.

Although engineering appears to cost more, when I entered university the high school entrance scholarships were something like $500 more than in science (it might have been $1000, but I am not sure), plus the average salary of a graduate with an engineering degree is higher than that of a science/arts graduate. In our current system this then makes sense, however I would prefer to see much lower tuition across the board, or preferably some type of forgivable loans which would be erased upon graduation.

What the University is referring to when they say tuition is tuition alone, not including all the additional(but still mandatory) fees.

Though it is true, that a lot of students do not take five courses a term because they simply cannot do the work for their courses, plus work to pay for their tuition at the same time, and fortunately for students in most programs, it won’t negatively affect them to take less than the full course load, though I think it does for you in engineering right? There’s some sort of penalty applied to your GPA if you don’t take a full course load, or am I wrong?