OSAP : Ontario Student Assistance Program

Get help paying for school when you qualify for OSAP .

From March 30, 2020 to September 30, 2020, you will not be required to make any loan payments, and interest will not accrue on your student loans. Learn more about temporary deferral.

OSAP updates

• 2024–2025 online OSAP application open for full-time students and part-time students and micro-credential programs
• 2023–2024 OSAP applications open for full-time and part-time students and micro-credential programs
• learn more about micro-credentials
• log in to your OSAP account for a list of approved micro-credentials or open list in a new browser window
• OSAP information module for full-time and micro-credential students making their first application

Ontario Learn and Stay Grant

Register for an OSAP account or log in with your existing OSAP credentials to apply now.

Learn about OSAP

How to apply for OSAP

How and when to apply

After you apply

How to get the money and more

Repay your loan

When, how and what help’s available

OSAP Aid Estimator

Find out how much you could get to help pay for your postsecondary education

Under-represented learners

• Indigenous students
• Extended Society Care (current and former Crown wards)
• First-generation students
• Students with disabilities
• Students who are Deaf or hard of hearing

Resources

• Approved schools
• Forms
• OSAP definitions
• Academic progress and maintaining OSAP eligibility

Questions about OSAP

Find contacts for:

National Student Loans Service Centre ( NSLSC ) about your loan or to update your banking details.

Beyond OSAP

• Other loans, grants, scholarships and bursaries
• Go to college or university in Ontario: Admission requirements and application process.

OSAP information module

You’ll need to complete an interactive information module before you start your application if you’re a:

• full-time or micro-credential student making your first OSAP application for the 2023–2024 or 2024–2025 school year

If you reapply to OSAP for the 2023–2024 or 2024–2025 school year, you will not need to complete this module again.

The module will help you understand:

• how OSAP and/or OSAP for Micro-credentials work
• your roles and responsibilities if you become an OSAP or OSAP for micro-credentials recipient
• basic financial information to support you through your postsecondary education (for example, creating a budget, understanding credit and debt)

How the module works

The interactive module contains short, self-study sections with information you must read before you start your OSAP or OSAP for Micro-credentials application. At the end of each section, you will be asked to answer a question about what you’ve just read.

Correct answers let you move to the next section of the module. When you’ve finished the information module, your OSAP or OSAP for Micro-credentials application will open.

You can log in and out of the module at any time, and your progress will be saved.

If you choose to complete the module in one sitting, it will take you approximately 15 minutes.

Only full-time or micro-credential students making their first OSAP application for the 2023–2024 or 2024–2025 school year need to complete this module. You will not need to complete this module again if you are reapplying to OSAP.