Tuition Rebate for Undergraduates

An undergraduate may be eligible for a tuition rebate of up to $1,000 at graduation if they have attempted no more than three semester hours beyond the minimum number of hours required for the degree.

Students desiring to qualify for a tuition rebate are solely responsible for enrolling only in courses that will qualify them for the rebate.

A student will be eligible for a partial rebate of their undergraduate tuition if ALL the following criteria are met:

1. The student must not have enrolled at any institution of higher education before the Fall 1997 semester.
2. At the time s/he earns a first undergraduate degree, the student must have attempted¹ no more than three semester hours beyond the minimum number of hours required for the degree.
   
   Hours attempted¹ include:
   
   • All courses the student has undertaken, such as transfer credit, credit earned by examination², courses the student dropped or from which the student withdrew after the date the official enrollment count was taken,
   • Optional internship and cooperative education courses,
   • Courses the student failed,
   • Courses the student repeated.
   • If the student has earned credit-by-exam for more than nine hours of coursework, the hours in excess of nine are also counted as hours attempted.
3. The student must have been a Texas resident and must have been eligible to pay resident tuition at all times while pursuing the degree.

Notes:
¹ Courses dropped for reasons that are determined by the institution to be totally beyond the control of the student shall not be counted.

² Due to a recent change in the law (effective 9/1/03), the first nine (9) hours earned by examination (that is, credit earned on the basis of AP courses, CLEP or credit granted for high SAT or ACT scores) DOES NOT COUNT as hours attempted.

Application

An eligible student should submit a Tuition Rebate Application to the College of Liberal Arts Student Division in GEB 2.200 in the same semester the student files an application for graduation.

Applications are available in the Liberal Arts Student Division office or you may print an application after downloading it using the link below.

Tuition rebates may be reduced by the amount of any outstanding student loan owed to or guaranteed by the State of Texas.

Download Tuition Rebate Application Form (PDF 250K)

The application must be submitted to The Liberal Arts Dean's Office by the official date of graduation.

Once the application has been submitted, Liberal Arts students will be notified of their eligibility status via email at the end of each semester.

Tuition Rebate Deadlines:

Spring 2009 graduates – May 23, 2009
Summer 2009 graduates – August 17, 2009
Fall 2009 graduates – December, 20, 2009

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