Undergraduate Events
*These visits are for undergraduate students only. If you are a graduate student, please email gradstudies
Travel Subsidy to Visit CMU
For undergraduate prospective students traveling from a distance—whether you are coming for a Discover Day or for an individual visit—CMU offers financial assistance.
We will pay up to $400 of your total travel cost if you travel by plane, bus, or train to Winnipeg from within Canada. If you are travelling from the USA, we will pay up to $500 CAD of your total travel cost. We do not offer travel subsidies for travel from outside Canada or the USA.
If you live more than 150km outside of Winnipeg and drive here, we'll reimburse you for gas at $0.40/km up to the same limits—$400 from within Canada or $500 CAD from the USA.
Half of the total cost is paid right after your visit (up to $200) and the remaining half will be applied towards your tuition costs when you enroll at CMU (up to $200).
Although we welcome and encourage family members (e.g., parents, siblings) to join you in coming to visit, we do not reimburse any travel costs for family members or other chaperones. We will, however, cover the cost of five meals and two nights of on-campus accommodations for all guests from outside Winnipeg, including prospective students, family members, and chaperones.
If you use AirMiles or Reward dollars to pay for flights, the "up to $400" is only calculated using the amount of cash you actually paid. We do not reimburse according to the value of the ticket in these cases.
To qualify for a travel subsidy, your visit must be pre-arranged with CMU Admissions. You will be required to submit receipts, so hang on to them! Your receipts must be submitted within two weeks of the event date to receive a travel subsidy.
If you are attending a Discover Day or Discover Weekend, you must participate in all scheduled activities to receive a travel subsidy.
For more information, contact Admissions at admissions
Testimonials
Bryn Friesen Epp (Graduate)
"Here at CMU, students aren't only challenged to write papers and excel during exams, we are also challenged to build a repertoire of perspectives. Perspectives that create nuanced views of everyday issues. At CMU we learn to build bridges, between philosophy and biology and faith, between poetry and song and worship, between gender and biology and ethics. It's a place to learn to think creatively, and integrate your study into everyday life."
Jason Friesen (Graduate)
"It doesn't matter if you're planning to come to CMU for one year or five years; your university experience will be infinitely better if the school you go to feels like home. There's no better way to find out about what programs are offered at a school and what they're like than by going there and talking to the people who teach the courses, and the people who are taking the courses. At a small university like CMU, that's no issue, and you'll get a great sense for what the programs are all about."
Laura Carr-Pries (Graduate)
"When I was in the process of trying to decide where I wanted to go to university, a huge part of my decision was going and visiting the schools that I was considering. Being able to see a university gave me a sense of what it was like to be a student there. When I came to visit CMU, I knew that I could picture myself here."
Ayla Manning (Graduate)
"When I first visited CMU, I didn't plan on attending. I wanted a day off school, and a campus visit day seemed like the perfect, relaxing escape from PreCal. I was right, it was an amazing afternoon and it changed my life. I was drawn in by the overall atmosphere of hospitality. I felt welcomed, even as a terrified grade 12 student intent on studying elsewhere. I had the opportunity to talk with some of the professors teaching in the areas I was interested in, and students smiled at me as they walked to their classes. I left that afternoon knowing that I wanted to be a CMU student."
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