SFU Graduate Student Handbook

Offer of Admission

Your offer of admission and funding (if applicable) is valid for 21 days from the date of the offer, unless otherwise specified one offer of admission. Should you be unable to follow the specified timeline to accept your offer of admission, please contact the academic unit offering admission to discuss your options.

To accept or decline your offer, please log in to goSFU using your ‘GA’ ID or your existing SFU computing ID. You may accept the offer and pay your admission deposit online. The admission deposit will hold your place in the program, will be applied toward your tuition in the first term, and is non-refundable. If you are unable to pay your admission deposit online, please refer to other payment options.  

Your admission is valid only for the academic term stated on your offer of admission letter. If you require a deferral of your admission to a later term, you must submit the request directly to the program to which you have been admitted. Deferrals are not guaranteed. If your admission is contingent upon providing SFU with additional documentation, any required documentation (e.g. final transcript showing degree conferred) must be submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies prior to the beginning of the term you have been admitted unless specified.

Verification of Documents

By accepting our offer of admission, you agree to allow Simon Fraser University to submit the documents that you included with your application for verification by an external agency such as the World Education Service or the International Credential Evaluation Service at our discretion. In the event that any document, including a reference letter or CV, is found to be fraudulent in any way, the offer of admission may be revoked regardless of length of time in the program.

Revoking and/or Rescinding Admission Offers

Students receiving offers of admission to most programs will have their offer of admission revoked and their eligibility to register cancelled if any of the following, or other factors deemed appropriate apply:

• failure to accept the offer by the specified date or register by the deadline;
• submission of fraudulent documents;
• violation of our student code of conduct or laws of Canada;
• were part of an admission decision mistake.

The decision to revoke an offer is never taken lightly.