Post-secondary students (see below for Durham Region exception)  Full-time students registered in an Ontario university or college must have a GO Student ID card when travelling. This GO ID must be kept handy with a student 10-ride ticket or monthly pass for ticket checks.  The GO Student ID is valid with student tickets for the entire period of full-time study. Students registered for 7 months or more of full-time classes can use their passes until August 31 and must renew their ID each new school year. 

The post-secondary schools listed below provide an online service to request a GO Student ID during registration.  Students may also sign up for a GO Student ID card at their school with a paper application available in the Registrar's office. They must have an authorized official at their school sign the completed application form, and send or deliver it along with a self-addressed stamped envelope to GO’s Union Station Customer Service Centre for processing. Please allow four to six weeks for processing. Cards may also be picked up from the Customer Service Centre.

To learn more about student fares, please visit our ticket types page.

On-line forms are available at these schools:

• George Brown College
  Registered full-time George Brown College students can order their GO Student ID cards online. Find out how at http://stuview.georgebrown.ca/
   
• University of Guelph
  Registered full-time University of Guelph students can order their GO Student ID cards online. Find out how at https://webadvisor.uoguelph.ca/
   
• McMaster University
  Registered full-time McMaster University students can order their GO Student ID cards online. Find out how at http://act.mcmaster.ca/transit/GO Transit.htm.

• Seneca@York
  Registered full-time students at Seneca @ York can order their GO Student ID cards online. Please visit http://my.senecacollege.ca.

• York University    
  Registered full-time students at York University can order their GO Student ID cards online. Please visit http://gocard.yorku.ca.

Durham College, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), and Trent University's Oshawa campus  
School-issued student cards from Durham College, UOIT, and Trent University's Oshawa campus, that indicate the cardholder's full-time status, are accepted as valid fare on DRT and GO buses travelling within Durham Region. These student cards, which feature a small bus icon, are not accepted as fare on GO Trains.

Registered full-time students at these schools can use their school-issued student cards to purchase GO tickets and passes at the student discount rate for travel anywhere on the GO system. A separate GO Student ID card is no longer required.

To qualify for free bus travel within Durham Region, and for the discounted rate on GO travel outside the region, students must have a card from one of these three schools that indicates full-time status and that includes a small bus icon.