25%
Tuition Surcharge for Undergraduates
The General
Assembly has instituted a twenty-five percent (25%) tuition surcharge
(Section 89 (b), Senate Bill 27, 1993 Session) which became effective
Fall semester 1994 and applies to all new undergraduates seeking a
baccalaureate degree. Specifically, it states:
The
Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina shall ensure
that procedures are established that are necessary to impose a twenty-five
percent (25%) tuition surcharge on students who take more than 140
degree credit hours to complete a baccalaureate degree in a four-year
program or more than one hundred ten percent (110%) of the credit
hours necessary to complete a baccalaureate degree in any program
officially designated by the Board of Governors as a five-year program.
The calculation of these credit hours taken at a constituent institution
or accepted for transfer shall exclude hours earned through the College
Board's Advanced Placement or CLEP examinations, through institutional
advanced placement or course validation, or through summer term or
extension programs.
Students
Subject to the Surcharge
The tuition surcharge was applied to new undergraduate students
enrolled for the first time in Fall 1994 and thereafter in a degree
program at UNCG as follows:
(1) For students earning a first baccalaureate degree in a program
that requires no more than 128 credit hours, the surcharge shall be
applied to all hours in excess of 140.
(2) For students earning a first baccalaureate degree in a UNC Board
of Governors Board-approved program that requires more than 128 credit
hours, the surcharge shall be applied to all hours that exceed 110
percent of the credit hours required for the degree. Such programs
include those that have been officially designated by the Board of
Governors as five-year programs as well as those involving double
majors, or combined bachelor's/master's degrees.
(3) For students earning a baccalaureate degree other than their first,
the surcharge shall be applied to all hours that exceed 110 percent
of the minimum additional credit hours needed to earn the additional
baccalaureate degree. The minimum additional credit hours will be
determined by the degree audit during the first semester a student
is enrolled in the second or other baccalaureate degree.
Students
seeking a second baccalaureate degree are required to take 31 credit
hours of residency at UNCG.
The surcharge will be imposed in the fall or spring semester and in
all subsequent semesters where a student's cumulative credit hour
total exceeds the threshold. The surcharge does not apply to required
fees.
Hours INCLUDED in Tuition Surcharge Hours:
The undergraduate credit hours to be counted in the calculation
of the tuition surcharge include:
(1)
all semester (fall and spring semester) academic credit hours attempted
(includes repeated coursework, failed coursework, and course withdrawals);
and
(2)
all transfer credit hours accepted by UNCG.
Hours
EXCLUDED from Tuition Surcharge Hours:
(1)
College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) credit;
(2) College Level Examination Program (CLEP) or similar programs'
credits;
(3)
credit earned through any UNCG advanced placement, course validation
or similar procedure;
(4) credit earned in summer sessions at UNCG or another UNC institution;
and
(5)
credit earned from an extension division of any UNC institution, including
UNCG.
Students
will be informed of the Tuition Surcharge Hours earned each semester
and cumulatively in their tuition billing.
Students
may contact the Office of Student Academic Services to obtain current
information on their credit hours.
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