The table below summarizes “cross-border” tuition policies identified to date at Canadian and U.S. universities related to Jay Treaty rights for students. To access to full table, click on the image below.

The table includes two types of policies.  The first type, identified so far at Canadian universities, charge domestic tuition rates to Indigenous students residing in the United States, rather than international fees, in the spirit of the Jay Treaty. These policies are publicly listed online (e.g., Vancouver Island University) while some are internal policies that are not public (e.g. Royal Roads University). In the last several years, perhaps following the example of the University of Saskatchewan (USask) and Vancouver Island University (VIU), other Canadian institutions, such as Victoria University, have also adopted Jay Treaty policies and have publicly posted these on their websites. Other schools, such as Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, have internal policies that allow for a tuition adjustment based on the Jay Treaty for Indigenous students living in the United States.

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In the second category of cross-border policies are those that offer tuition benefits to Indigenous students in Canada but do not directly mention the Jay Treaty. These include policies at the University of Maine-Orono and the University of Minnesota – Morris, which extend tuition waiver programs to Indigenous students living in Canada.

This ongoing research has been put together by Michael O'Shea. The table will be updated as more information becomes available.