Tuition and Fees

NOTE: Matriculated graduate students must pay the graduate tuition rate for all courses regardless of the course level.

The most current tuition and fee rates, along with information about payment and payment arrangements, can be found on the web at www.newpaltz.edu/student_accounts

Non-Resident Online Only

The non-resident exclusively online tuition rate will be charged to non-resident students taking courses in exclusively online programs that have been previously approved by the Provost’s Office and registered by the New York State Education Department in distance education format, consistent with the student’s intention to take courses exclusively online at the time of application and matriculation toward the degree. Students who are non-residents, whose intent is to be on campus learning, but may be studying remotely, will be charged the standard non-resident rate.

Full-Time Status Defined

Full-time status for matriculated graduate students is not set by the Office of Graduate, Professional & Interdisciplinary Studies. The full-time classification may be met in different ways depending upon the reason a student is seeking this classification.

For Financial Aid Eligibility

Full-time status is defined as being registered for 12 or more credits. The total number of credits regardless of level is used when determining whether a student is full-time. Therefore, matriculated graduate students may take a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses and still be considered full-time if they are registered for at least 12 credits.

For Matriculated Students

The University will consider the following categories as full-time enrollment:

• A student is registered for at least 12 credits per semester
• Full-time GSEU TAs & GAs working 20-hours/week and registered for at least 6 credits per semester
• Half-time GSEU TAs & GAs working 10-hours/week and registered for at least 9 credits per semester
• A student has completed all coursework and is registered for an H-grade thesis and one credit of continued registration in the current semester
• A domestic student has completed all coursework and is registered for a zero credit comprehensive exam workshop
• A student is taking 6 credits per summer session

NOTE: Although the University may consider these students full-time working toward a degree, they may not meet Financial Aid's eligibility requirements for full-time status. Check with Financial Aid about this matter.