Tuitions and Fees

Note: This information is based on 2012-2013 Academic Year for International Student (non-Canadian citizen or permanent resident) in PhD program, the University of Victoria.


So I've been accepted to a PhD program from the University of Victoria, and the funding is offered. Now I need to carefully estimate my budgeting. I hope this information might be useful to others too. It has been already summarized in UVic Calendar, but I just wanted to break it down to know each component.

Tuitions

Minimum payment: 7.5 regular fee installments (= 7 full-time & 1 part-time semesters).
Maximum payment: 9 regular fee installments (= 9 full-time semesters). This is equivalent to 3 years, given that you enroll in the program for 3 semesters (Sep-Dec, Jan-Apr, May-Aug) a year for 3 consecutive years.

After you enroll in the program for 9 semesters, but you haven't completed your  program, then you will be charged re-registration fees instead of regular fees for each additional semester.

The maximum time for PhD program is 7 years. If you happen to exceed this time limit, you will be charged a program extension fee at the regular fee for each additional semester.

...so how much are these fees? Check here:

$2042.76 for full fee installment
$1021.38 for half fee installment
$813.36 for re-registration fee

 Athletics/Recreation fees

$76 per semester (Athletics/Recreation)

Graduate Students' Society (GSS) fees

$56.76 per semester

GSS Extended Health & Dental Plans

You have to pay for extended health and dental plans for full-time graduate students, unless you have some equivalent coverage for each plan. In this case, you have to opt out of the GSS's plan(s) if you want to avoid the fees for these. The deadline for opt-out is September 30.

The fees for 2012-2013 year are:

Health: $328
Dental: $214

If you want to cover your family member(s) with the GSS plans, you have to opt in before September 30 of each year. You can apply to pay monthly for these fees instead of paying at once each year.

The additional fees for the student's family members are (covering all family members except student):

Health: $333
Dental: $219

BC MSP (BC Medical Services Plan)

In addition to the GSS plans, all BC residents (including international students) must be covered by this plan. International students have 3-month waiting period. The cost for BC MSP depends on the size of the family:

Single: $64/month
Couple: $116/month
Three+: $128/month

More information on basic and extended health plans are here.

U-Pass (Bus pass for Greater Victoria BC Transit)

Mandatory for all graduate students (some exceptions):

$78.50 per semester





In, Conclusion, the total cost per semester for a graduate student (single) with full fee installment is:

$2690.69

So PhD student has to pay at this rate at least for 7 times.

PISCES in OFFLINE and 1D mode

PISCES can be used in offline and 1D. At this point, I don't have a complete understanding of how the combination of offline and 1D differs from the standard PISCES (online & 3D) since many computations are expected to be simplified (i.e. neglected, or read from offline dynamics). Unfortunately, there is no formal documents for offline mode, while the 1D document is available here.

In offline mode, you need the following dynamical (physical) fields according to the "namelist" file:


!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
&namdta_dyn        !   offline dynamics read in files                ("key_offline")
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
!            !  file name  ! frequency (hours) ! variable  ! time interp. !  clim  ! 'yearly'/ ! weights  ! rotation !
!            !             !  (if <0  months)  !   name    !   (logical)  !  (T/F) ! 'monthly' ! filename ! pairing  !
   sn_tem  = 'dyna_grid_T' ,    -12             , 'votemper' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_sal  = 'dyna_grid_T' ,    -12            , 'vosaline' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_mld  = 'dyna_grid_T' ,    -12            , 'somixhgt' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_emp  = 'dyna_grid_T' ,    -12            , 'sowaflcd' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_ice  = 'dyna_grid_T' ,    -12            , 'soicecov' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_qsr  = 'dyna_grid_T' ,    -12            , 'soshfldo' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_wnd  = 'dyna_grid_T' ,    -12            , 'sowindsp' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_uwd  = 'dyna_grid_U' ,    -12            , 'vozocrtx' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_vwd  = 'dyna_grid_V' ,    -12            , 'vomecrty' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_wwd  = 'dyna_grid_W' ,    -12            , 'vovecrtz' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_avt  = 'dyna_grid_W' ,    -12            , 'voddmavs' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_ubl  = 'dyna_grid_U' ,    -12            , 'sobblcox' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_vbl  = 'dyna_grid_V' ,    -12            , 'sobblcoy' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
   sn_eiw  = 'dyna_grid_W' ,    -12            , 'soleaeiw' ,  .true.    , .true. ,   'yearly'  , ''       , ''
!
   cn_dir      = './'      !  root directory for the location of the dynamical files
   ln_degrad   =  .false.  !  flag for degradation -                requires ("key_degrad")
   ln_dynwzv   =  .true.   !  computation of vertical velocity instead of using the one read in file
   ln_dynbbl   =  .false.   !  bbl coef are in files, so read them - requires ("key_trabbl")
/

Note that "sobblcox", "sobblcoy", and "vovecrtz" are not required if you set "ln_dynbbl" (for the first 2 variables) and "ln_dynwzv" equal ".false.". They will be computed in such case.
 
The offline dynamics are computed in "dtadyn.F90".

To create your own offline dynamics, you can first produce a reference dynamics file "dyna_grid_[TUVW].nc" by running OPA model (e.g. default ORCA_LIM2) for 1 year with the modified "iodef.xml":

      <group id="1y" output_freq="-12"    output_level="10" enabled=".TRUE.">                      <!-- real yearly files -->

        <file id="1y_grid_T" name="auto" description="ocean T grid variables" >

                <field ref="toce"               name="votemper" />

                <field ref="soce"               name="vosaline" />

                <field ref="mldkz5"             name="somixhgt" />

                <field ref="empsmr"             name="sowaflcd" />

                <field ref="ice_cover"  name="soicecov" />

                <field ref="qt"                 name="soshfldo" />

                <field ref="wspd"               name="sowindsp" />

        </file>

        <file id="1y_grid_U" name="auto" description="ocean U grid variables" >

                <field ref="uoce" name="vozocrtx"  />

        </file>

        <file id="1y_grid_V" name="auto" description="ocean V grid variables" >

                <field ref="voce" name="vomecrty" />

        </file>

        <file id="1y_grid_W" name="auto" desciption="ocean W grid variables" >

                <field ref="woce"         name="vovecrtz" />

                <field ref="avs"          name="voddmavs" />

                <field ref="aht2d_eiv"    name="soleaeiw" />

        </file>

      </group>

In Matlab, there is a NetCDF command called "ncwriteschema", which creates a file based on your scheme (the reference dynamics field). Now, assign the values to each variable, and you can use the file as your offline dynamics.


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The following netCDF files are used for offline 1D PISCES run:

bathy.orca.nc            data_O2_nomask.nc   dyna_grid_V.nc
data_Alkalini_nomask.nc  data_PO4_nomask.nc  dyna_grid_W.nc
data_DIC_nomask.nc       data_Si_nomask.nc   mesh_mask.nc
data_DOC_nomask.nc       dust.orca.nc        ndeposition.orca.nc
data_Fer_nomask.nc       dyna_grid_T.nc      presatm.nc
data_NO3_nomask.nc       dyna_grid_U.nc      river.orca.nc


ORCA2_OFF_PISCES on placentia (this one works!!!):
key_trabbl key_orca_r2 key_ldfslp key_traldf_c2d key_traldf_eiv key_top key_offline key_pisces key_iomput

OFFLINE_3D (this one does not work):
key_trabbl key_orca_r2 key_ldfslp key_traldf_c2d key_traldf_eiv key_top key_offline key_pisces key_iomput     key_diaeiv key_dynldf_c3d

2013年冬学期学費例

メモリアル大学院の留学生の実際の学費は？という疑問にお答えします。 

今学期（２０１３年冬・４ヶ月分）の理学部海洋物理学科修士課程の学生（私）が実際に大学に納めた費用です。通貨はカナダドルです。 

• 歯科医療保険　$65.56 
• 医療保険　$184.65 
• レクレーション費　$54.80　体育館などの施設利用のための費用です。フルタイムの学生は全員払わなければいけません。 
• 学費　$953.00　単位や選択した授業数に関係なくこの額を毎学期払います。
• CFS（Canadian Federation of Student） $4.20　カナダ学生会（？）のようなものです。ISICカード（世界で使える学生証）や手帳の費用となっているようです。 
• CFS NL Graduate Fee　$4.20　ニューファンドランド州の院生用のCFSです。何に使われているかは不明ですがCFSのウェブサイトで確認できるかと思います。
• 大学院生徒会費用　$20.00　GSU（Graduate Student Union）のイベントなどで使われます。 

以上合計＄1286.41です。学費は毎学期講義初日までに納めなければいけません。払い忘れた場合延滞料が加算されます。 

保険料が高い気がしますが、税金を納めていない留学生にとって医療費はかなり高額になります。なのでもし何かあったときのためにも仕方ない出費ですね

学費の安さ北米トップクラス

メモリアル大学で学ぶ理由の一つに多くの学生が「学費の安さ」を挙げます。では実際どれくらい安いのか検証してみましょう。 

今回比較したのは大学院生の大多数となる卒論必須の2年制（全６学期）修士課程の留学生が支払う学費です。 

メモリアル大学では学期あたり、 

$953 

の学費を支払う必要があります。 

これがマギル（McGill）大学の場合、 

＄1,456.17（約1.5倍） 

ブリティッシュコロンビア大学の場合、 

$2,496.96（約3倍） 

トロント大学の場合、 

＄２６８０.３３（同じく約3倍） 


っとなります。 

他のカナダの大学と比べるとメモリアル大学の学費はかなり安いことがわかりますね。 

では、次にアメリカの大学と比べてみましょう。 

例えばカリフォルニア工科大学、 

＄１２１２９（約13倍桁が増えました） 

そしてボストン大学、 

＄１３６１６（約14倍） 


…っという風にアメリカの大学と比べると１０倍以上違ってきますね 



ちなみに、タイトルとは話が変わりますが 

学費の他に大学へ納めなければいけない費用をまとめると 

＄１３２４.４１（２０１１年秋学期現在）となります。 

そして… 

（上記金額×６学期）＋（２年間分の生活費）＝（修士取得に必要な金額） 

…となります。