Tuition Fee Credits (TFC)

Tuition fee credits can be redeemed by completing and submitting the online form after you've enrolled in classes for the semester. This form is to be used if you are redeeming the TFCs for yourself. If you wish to transfer the TFCs to someone else, please see the section on tranferring tuition fee credits below.

When you submit your form, you will receive a confirmation message within five business days stating the amount to be added to your student account.

Tuition fee credits are posted to student accounts after the third week of class. This date falls after the tuition deadline, so please ensure that you have paid the remaining balance owing on your student account to avoid any late fees.

• School associates, school administrators and in-school coordinators may redeem up to 10 credits per semester* up to a lifetime maximum of 30 credits.
• Individuals outside of these categories who have been transferred TFCs may redeem up to 4 credits per semester* up to a lifetime maximum of 12 credits.

*Note: The amount of tuition fee credits redeemed may not exceed the monetary value of all fees listed as "tuition" on goSFU. Additional Student and Ancillary Fees, such as student activity fees, health and dental plans and U-Pass, are not eligible to be covered by TFCs.

Unused tuition fee credits may be transferred to a spouse, child, colleague or promising educator, per the criteria below. To transfer TFCs, please fill out the TFC transfer form. On the form, you will have the option of having the credits applied to the current semester or saved under your name in our database for future use.

Transfer Policy 

Tuition fee credits may be transferred to: 

• Spouse: A person to whom the employee is legally married and lives with, or a person who, although not legally married to the employee, has co-habited with them for at least twelve months in a marriage-like relationship and is known in the community as the employee's spouse or partner. The spouse may be a person of any gender.
• Dependant: A child or stepchild of the employee who is under twenty-five years of age on the first day of classes of the semester. The benefit will expire at the end of the current academic semester should the child attain twenty-five years of age. The child must be mainly dependent upon the employee for financial support.
• Colleague (currently working at your school): For this purpose, colleagues include enrolling or non-enrolling teachers on temporary or continuing contracts and school administrators. We hope that recipients of transferred credits will consider becoming school associates in the future.
• Promising educator: TFCs may also be gifted to a promising educator who meets one of the following criteria:
  a) is a certified teacher working in any school district without a continuing contract, such as a TTOC;
  b) is an SFU student, in any faculty, who is an aspiring teacher.

Those gifting TFCs to a promising educator are providing encouragement to current colleagues not on continuing contracts or future educators who demonstrate a strong commitment to being or becoming outstanding teachers.