Features: March 18, 2002

Transition and Pricing Plan Announced on Graduate School Tuition

As reported in Campus.News, tuition for full-time graduate students will move from a per-credit-hour approach to a flat academic year tuition set at the same rate as for undergraduates.

For graduate students who are already enrolled, the Institute has established a transition plan that will allow them to continue their studies at a reduced cost during a specified transition period.

That plan and the pricing policy for part-time graduate study and special cohort programs is available at

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/grad/tuition_policy.html
(rev. 8/27/02)

The transition plan is designed to minimize financial hardship for current full-time and part-time graduate students, students in degree-completion status, working professionals in distance and residence programs, and others.

Beginning the fall semester of '02, only students currently enrolled or approved by May 2002 for "Degree Completion" will be allowed to enroll in this way for the fall of '02. For a period of one-year (i.e., until August of '03), these students will be allowed to continue under the existing Degree Completion guidelines. All of these provisional Degree Completion students must pay the $50 Degree Completion fee each semester. After a period of one year, the concept of Degree Completion will be eliminated.

Only full-time students will be eligible for financial support in the form of a tuition waiver, stipend, research assistantship, teaching assistantship, or fellowship.

As with tuition for undergraduates, graduate tuition for the 2002-2003 academic year has been set at $26,400. For graduate students, the cost for courses in excess of full-time load will be $1,100 per credit hour. Part-time tuition for graduate students will be $1,320 per credit hour.

Complete details on the transition plan and pricing are given in the policy.