UPass

The U-Pass costs $90.00.

Registered students are eligible.

All University of Regina students are eligible to get the U-Pass. Students are either automatically assessed the fee or may choose to opt-in. You can tell if you were automatically assessed (and thus need to activate a pass or opt-out) by checking your URegina Self Service account.

Students who take at least 1 on-campus course are automatically enrolled in the program and must pay for the pass unless they are eligible to opt-out.

Students who typically are not automatically assessed the fee include:

• Students taking only Online courses (this is different from Remote courses).
• Students studying only at locations outside of Regina.
• Nursing students with only an off-campus practicum.
• Graduate students taking only “maintenance” courses.
• Students in a co-op program work term with no on-campus courses.

Please visit our opt-out page for more details.

For all U of R students, yes. Visit us with your student ID card and your proof of enrollment or present your fee statement, and we will load a semester of coverage for you. We will then notify the University to charge the U-Pass fee directly to your URegina account. ESL students, LINC students and Campus For All students will be required to pay for their pass at the time of activation.  There is no deadline to opt-in or to activate your card.

At this time, University of Saskatchewan and Sask Polytech students cannot opt in to or receive the University of Regina U-Pass.

Once you receive the benefit code, You can redeem your code by the Umo app.

Yes, the URSU Member Services Desk will continue. See Front desk services

Yes! If you are a registered Paratransit user, you can use the pass for that service as well.

There are a number of side benefits for you and the city in general when more people are using public transit, e.g. less pollution, more parking, and less traffic congestion. Some students find that the bus ride is a good opportunity to finish that reading you didn’t quite finish the night before. When the first snowfall hits, the bus is usually a less worrisome trip to the university than dealing with the increased traffic and potential for accidents in a car. If you want to go out for a drink, there is nothing better than knowing that you can get home safely with a pass that you’ve already paid for.

Perhaps most importantly, you can save a lot of money if you take the bus instead of a car. With a car, you have to pay for gas, maintenance, plates, plus all the indirect infrastructure costs that come from having so many cars on the road. According to a report from CAA in 2013, the average annual cost of driving a compact car is about $9500. Larger cars, trucks, and SUVs cost even more. On the other hand, two semesters of the U-Pass costs only $175.20 ($87.60 per semester).

Your parking pass is not mandatory whereas the U-Pass is. If URSU allowed students to opt-out when they purchase a parking pass, that would undermine a central goal of the program. On the positive side, parking passes can be cancelled and refunded, or you can sublet your parking pass.

Not anymore. The Federal government has removed this tax credit as of 2018.