Co-operative Education Students

Co-operative education students may be eligible for student assistance funding while they are on a co-op work term if their work term is deemed to be eligible for program completion. Co-op students can now also  while they are on a work term.

As a co-op student, you are alternating work-terms and study-terms. This means that your expenses are likely changing term-by-term. For some work terms, you may not need student assistance funding at all.

To make student assistance work for you, after year one of your program you should apply term-by-term. This means that after year one (i.e. after you’ve completed two study-terms):

• you must apply for student assistance each term, for only that term
• once you’ve been assessed each term, you must also submit a pre-study report at the start of each of these terms
• your application cycle is much shorter (every term) so you should be very careful to monitor your application and meet these shorter deadlines