Tuition and Fees: Spring 2020

Tuition & Educational Service Fee (ESF)

The Tuition and Educational Service Fee cost for Massachusetts residents is $202 per credit ($24 tuition / $178 educational service fee). For all other students the cost is $408 per credit ($230 tuition / $178 educational service fee). There are additional fees each semester based on enrollment (see below).

Spring 2020 Tuition and Fee Rate Schedule

*See additional fees below

Tuition, ESF, and other fees

**Currently all programs have per semester or per class Program Fees associated with the Program Major to help support the needs of the program. View a list of program fees.

PLEASE NOTE - all costs are subject to change without prior notification.  Please refer to the semester Tuition & Fee Refund Policy for financial penalty when withdrawing from your classes.   

Health Insurance - Massachusetts Universal Health Insurance Law requires that all students enrolled for 9 or more credits participate in a comprehensive health insurance plan. The premium fee for SPRING 2020 is $1,595 and enrollment covers the period from January 1st through August 31, 2020. If you can certify alternative comparable coverage, you can waive this fee by completing the online waiver available now.  Free care is not considered comparable coverage.  If you were charged the fee and waived the fee in the FALL the SPRING fee will come off in a few business days - please do not complete the waiver again - expect the fee to update off of your bill in a few business days.  Completed SPRING 2020 waivers will not be uploaded until after January 1st. 

Experience-based education fees: challenge exams $50 per credit - portfolio assessment $65 per credit - credentialing fee $50 per credit. Credit cost for QCC sponsored learning (direct study and tutorial study) is the same cost as credit courses. Please contact Career Placement Services for additional information by email at careerservices [at] qcc.mass.edu or by phone at 508.854.4439.

PAYMENT

The SPRING 2020 bill is due January 8th and classes begin January 22nd. 

An E-Bill notification is sent 2-3 days after registration to your student Qmail account and details payment options.  The course and fee statement on The Q is your bill.  We do not mail paper bills. Please contact the Business Office with any billing or payment questions you may have by email at businessoffice@qcc.mass.edu or by phone at 508.854.4560.

Students who have not paid or made arrangements to pay their tuition and fee bill by the bill due date may risk being dropped from their classes due to non-payment. Students will be notified by email to their student Qmail account if they have been dropped from their classes for non-payment.  It is the student's responsibility to notify the Registrar's Office if the student will not attend.

Tuition and Fee Refund Policy

Refund Limitations

1. Official withdrawal must be made in the Registrar's Office, room 152 in the Administration Building.
2. Any waivers must be submitted to the Business Office prior to the end of the semester to be considered for a refund or adjustment.
3. Students will be refunded only that portion of the tuition and fees paid by them; financial aid and other contracted agency payments will be refunded directly to the paying party.
4. Mandatory health insurance premiums are not refundable to any student after the first 21 class days of the term.

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