Financial Assistance for Credit Courses

Retirees can receive financial assistance to cover tuition for one academic credit course per semester, in accordance with current Memorial University tuition rates.  The current rates can be found by searching Money Matters on the www.mun.ca site.

For information on how to register, please go to the Registrar's registration page, which includes a help phone number and email address.

Approval for all financial assistance for credit courses must be obtained prior to the semester for which assistance is requested. Memorial has no obligation to pay for courses which have not received prior approval. 

To access the Application for Credit Training form, please login to my.mun.ca and select the “Employee” tab. Under this tab you will see in the upper left Employee Training and Development. Open that and select the "Application for Financial Assistance for University Credit Course revised 2025". This will download the appropriate credit course application form.

Fill out the form and submit it to Human Resources.

The applicant can just list Retiree in the “Department/School/Faculty of Employment” field. Leave the Department Approval blank. Sign the form and submit to HR, as indicated on the form. 

• The Retiree will be promptly informed by the Department of Human Resources of approved financial assistance

• If the application for credit training is not approved, the Retiree will be promptly informed by the Department of Human Resources for the reason of non-approval.

As with the University's employees, the Retiree is required to reimburse the University if the course is dropped or a passing grade is not achieved.

Please note that this applies only to credit courses. Support for non-credit courses has been frozen since 2017.

The relevant Memorial Policies and Procedures are as follows:

https://www.mun.ca/policy/browse/procedures/view.php?procedure=390

https://www.mun.ca/policy/browse/policies/view.php?policy=259

https://www.mun.ca/hr/learning-development/courses/academic/