Post-secondary students (see below for Durham Region exception)  To qualify for the student-rate fare, full-time students registered in an Canadian 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 and must be renewed each new school year. For students registered for seven months or more of full-time classes, GO Transit ID cards are valid throughout the summer months. For the 2009-10 school year, these cards expire October 31, 2010.

The post-secondary schools listed below provide an online service to request a GO Student ID during registration. 

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/
   

• 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.

• McMaster University
  McMaster University is not offering on-campus processing and distribution of GO Transit ID cards for the 2009-10 school year. GO Transit will now accept photo identification cards issued by McMaster University to its full time graduate and undergraduate students.
  Some exceptions apply. Please see McMaster's Office of Sustainability website for complete details.
  http://www.mcmaster.ca/sustainability/at_transit.html#gotransitid

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, but are considered valid student identification when travelling with a student-discount fare. Although DRT U-Passes are not valid for travel after the end of the school year, they can be used as GO Transit Student Identification to qualify for student fares during the summer months. Student cards from 2009-10 expire October 31, 2010.

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.

Students attending post-secondary schools not listed above may obtain a GO Student ID card by using a paper application available in their school’s Registrar’s office. They must have an authorized official at their school sign the completed application form.

To obtain a card, the signed application form can be submitted to the Union Station Customer Service Centre in one of three ways:

1. Take the signed form to Union Station Customer Service where a card will be made up on the spot.

2. Take the signed form to any GO Train station. It will be sent to Union Station to be processed, and then returned for pick-up at the station of the student’s choice. (Please allow 2-4 weeks for processing.)

3. Mail the signed form, along with a self-addressed, stamped return envelope to:

Union Station, Customer Service

140 Bay St.

Toronto

M5J 2L5

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