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Tuition and fee rates for 2022-2023
Additional Fees May Apply
- Online Courses ($50 per hour)
- Remote Locations ($20 per hour)
- Lab Fees ($5 – $30 per course)
Undergraduate Nursing
Additional Fees May Apply
- Online Courses ($50 per hour)
- Remote Locations ($20 per hour)
- Lab Fees ($5 – $30 per course)
Waivers and Exemptions
Waivers reduce a student’s tuition assessment rate from non-resident status to Texas resident status. Exemptions remove tuition and/or fees assessment.
Texas law requires students who receive specific tuition exemptions or waivers to meet a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) in order to continue to receive this benefit. Texas law also establishes a limit to the total number of hours, cumulative, that an undergraduate student may take and continue to be eligible for under an exemption or waiver.
Foster Care Exemptions are currently exempt from the GPA evaluation. A full list of exemptions and waivers can be found at www.collegeforalltexans.com.
For students who do not meet the GPA requirements, an appeal process is available.
Waivers and exemptions are granted for the following reasons:
- Contact Financial Services
- Eligibility: Nonresident and domiciled foreign students whose families have been transferred to Texas as a part of the state’s plan for economic development
- Required documentation: Company transferring student’s family to Texas must meet Texas Department of Commerce requirements (contact Angie Mendez 512-936-0222)
- Coordinating Board notifies the university of eligibility for the waiver
- Contact Financial Services
- Eligibility: Military personnel stationed in Texas, their spouses and children
- Required documentation: Must provide documentation from the military of eligibility at least once per year
- Contact Financial Services
- Eligibility: Must be employed at least half-time as a teacher or professor at any Texas institution of higher education (employee’s spouse and children are also eligible)
- Required documentation: Documentation from institution verifying at least half-time employment as a teacher or professor on a regular monthly salary
- Contact Admissions
- Eligibility: Students from neighboring states living in counties adjacent to the Texas border with which we have a reciprocal agreement
- Required documentation: University must have filed at the Coordinating Board that reciprocity exists between a neighboring state institution and a comparable Texas institution.
- Contact Financial Services
- Eligibility: Students from Mexico who have financial need
- Required documentation: Proof of financial need
- Contact Graduate School
- Eligibility: Student must be employed as a teaching or research assistant at a public institution of higher education.
- Eligibility is limited to the semester of assistantship appointment. (Employee’s spouse and children are also eligible)
- Required documentation: Student must provide proof of at least half-time employment as a research or teaching assistant.
- Contact Scholarship Office
- Eligibility: Student receives competitive scholarships for at least $1,000. Eligibility for waiver is tied to semesters covered by a scholarship.
- Required documentation: Student must have competed with other students, including Texas residents, for the award. A recognized East Texas A&M scholarship committee must administer the scholarship.
- Funds and selection must be under university control.
- East Texas A&M Contact: [email protected] 903-886-5473
- Coordinating Board Contact: [email protected] 512-427-6214
- Eligibility: Nonresident students enrolled in graduate programs not offered in their home states.
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- Eligibility: Nonresident aliens, their spouses and dependent children stationed in Texas with NATO forces.
- Required documentation: Proof that family is stationed in Texas in keeping with the North Atlantic Treaty.
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- Resident rate plus $30 per credit hour
- Eligibility: Undergraduate students from Oklahoma or Louisana may pay a lowered nonresident tuition rate when they attend a public university located within 100 miles of the Texas border if the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved the institution to participate in the program.
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- Exempts tuition only
- Eligibility: Valedictorians of each accredited Texas high school.
- Applies during first two regular semesters following high school graduation. Must be used within two years of high school graduation.
- Required Documentation: Documentation that student was the highest ranking graduate of an accredited high school in Texas. A certificate is issued by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). If the certificate is lost, a new one may be acquired through the high school or TEA or a letter from the high school principal or superintendent may serve as proof of eligibility.
- Contact Veterans Affairs Office
- Exempts tuition/fees, except student services fee and property deposit
- Eligibility: U.S. military veterans and children of deceased veterans who were Texans when they entered the service; served at least 180 days of active military duty (excluding training); have insufficient federal education benefits (including Pell and SEOG) to cover relevant tuition and fees.
- No student may use Hazlewood for more than 150 credit hours with the count beginning in fall 1995.
- Required documentation: Official documentation indicating eligibility (usually the DD214) plus documentation from the financial aid office regarding eligibility for Pell or SEOG.
- Contact Veterans Affairs Office
- Exempts tuition/fees, except student service fee and property deposit
- Eligibility: Dependents of Texas veterans killed in action or died while in service or whose death was directly caused by illness or injury connected with service in the armed forces.
- Required documentation: Official documentation from the military, indicating eligibility.
- Contact Financial Services
- Exempts all tuition/fees, except property deposit
- Eligibility: Children of disabled firemen and peace officers. A student must apply prior to their 21st birthday.
- Required documentation: Contact Coordinating Board (Angela Crowder, 1.800.242.3062, ext 6344) to acquire letter certifying student’s eligibility. (Coordinating Board letter is issued after it receives confirmation from the parent’s prior employer of the student’s eligibility.)
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- Exempts all tuition/fees
- Eligibility: Children of POWs/MIAs. A student must be 25 or younger and receiving most of their support from a parent.
- Required documentation: Provide proof from the U.S. Department of Defense that parent is MIA or POW.
- Contact Financial Services
- Exempts all tuition/fees, except property deposit
- Eligibility: Peace officers disabled in the line of duty. Applies up to 12 semesters of an undergraduate degree and work on first master’s degree and first doctoral degree.
- Required documentation: Contact Coordinating Board (Angela Crowder, 1.800.242.3062, ext 6344) to acquire letter certifying student’s eligibility. (Coordinating Board letter is issued after it receives confirmation from a prior employer of the student’s eligibility.)
- Contact Financial Services
- Exempts all tuition/fees
- Eligibility: Blind or Deaf students.
- Required Documentation: Certification of a blind or deaf condition by the Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, the Texas Commission for the Blind or the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
- Contact International Student Services Office
- Exempts tuition only
- Eligibility: Students from other nations of the western hemisphere (other than Cuba).
- Required Documentation: Coordinating Board must approve eligible students. Students are selected by the Coordinating Board according to school and geographic priorities.
- Deadline is March 15.
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- Exempts tuition/fees for auditing courses
- Exempts tuition only up to six credit hours per term
- Both exemptions are based on space availability.
- Eligibility: Senior Citizens 65 or older
- Required Documentation: Proof of age
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- Exempts tuition/fees
- Eligibility: Students in foster or other residential care. A student must enroll within 3 years of earliest dates: date student was discharged from foster or other residential care, date student graduated from high school or received equivalency degree or student’s 21st birthday.
- Required Documentation: Student must provide proof of having been in foster care or other residential care under the conservatorship of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services on or after the day preceding the student’s 18th birthday, the day of the student’s 14th birthday, if the student was also eligible for adoption on or after that day; or the day the student graduated from high school or received the equivalent of a high school degree.
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- Exempts tuition not to exceed 12 semester hours per term per individual
- Eligibility: Members in good standing of the Texas National Guard. This includes TXARNG, TXANG and the State Guard.
- Required Documentation: Adjutant General’s Office approval to the Coordinating Board. Fall deadline is June 15. Spring deadline is Nov. 15. All applications are to be mailed directly to the Adjutant General’s Office.
- Contact Financial Services
- Exempts tuition up to 6 credit hours per term
- Eligibility: East Texas A&M employee for at least six months in a full-time budgeted position.
- Required Documentation: Employee Scholarship Application indicating approval of Department Head and signed promissory note for the cost of tuition in case course is dropped or employee receives a grade lower than C.
Residency Guidelines
Make sure you accurately answer all questions on the application. If you who believe their residency status is incorrect must contact the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at 903.886.5922 or email [email protected].
Current undergraduate students who believe their residency status has changed must report this change to the undergraduate admissions office by completing the Core Residency Questionnaire. Additional documentation may be required to establish Texas residency. The burden of proof is on the student to show they’ve established domicile in Texas for 12 months preceding the student’s enrollment.
An individual who has resided in Texas for the 36 consecutive months leading up to his or her graduation from a Texas high school or receipt of a GED, and continued to maintain a residence in Texas for the 12 months leading up to his or her enrollment in an institution of higher education, may be classified as a resident for tuition purposes, regardless of dependency or immigration status. Any individual wishing to qualify under this provision who is not a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident of the United States must complete and submit an Affidavit of Intent to Become a Permanent Resident to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in addition to their application for admissions.
International Students who are eligible to establish domicile in Texas may also qualify as Texas residents for tuition purposes. Students must submit documentation for themselves and their parent if they are a dependent. Students with special circumstances related to their claim of residency may submit additional documentation for consideration. Students with F-1 Visas do not qualify.
A student classified as a non-resident at the time of admission retains that classification until he or she requests reclassification and provides proof of residence to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The student must complete a Core Residency Questionnaire form and provide documentation to support the claim to reclassification as mentioned in the Independent Students section above.
Students who wish to apply for eligibility to pay resident tuition must do so by the 12th class day of the fall or spring semester or the fourth class day of the summer semester in which they wish to pay resident tuition. Any applications received by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions after this time will be considered for the next term.
Student Fees
The following mandatory student fees and course-specific fees may be assessed.
$25 per credit hour for all graduate level courses offered through the College of Business.
Students enrolling in a course for the third time may be assessed a course retake fee of $125 per credit hour. This fee is assessed in addition to the standard tuition/fee charges for each semester. Please contact the Registrar at (903) 886.5068 if you have questions regarding the course retake fee.
A distance learning fee of $50 per credit hour is assessed in addition to regular tuition and mandatory student fees for courses delivered via the Internet or by two-way interactive video at the receiving site. Students enrolled in two-way interactive video courses at the sending site will not be assessed the distance learning fee.
Students taking courses at any location other than the main Commerce campus will be assessed a program delivery fee of $20 per credit hour. This fee applies only to lecture courses where the instructor is present. Web-based courses or course sections taught by interactive video at the receiving site will not be assessed a program delivery fee. Courses taught at Corsicana and Midlothian locations will be assessed a program delivery fee of $10 per credit hour.
A $10 general property deposit is required to remain on deposit for each student during his or her enrollment at the university. This deposit is to ensure the institution against losses, damages and breakage in libraries and laboratories. If the $10 deposit is refunded or any claim for damages is filed against the deposit, a student will again be assessed the property deposit fee. If not claimed within four years after the last date of enrollment, the deposit is non-refundable. To receive a refund of your property deposit, a written request must be submitted to Student Accounts, Financial Services office after your withdrawal or graduation.
Parking Permits are issued for the academic year. They are $80 if purchased in the fall semester.
Fees for audited courses are the same as the credit hour fee charged for Texas resident and nonresident students. All students who audit a course must first receive permission from the instructor and department head. Students may not enroll to audit a course until the first day of class. Students enrolling to audit a course must notify Records and Reports prior to completing registration.
- Installment Plan Fee: $35 (payable at sign-up)
- Lab Fee: $5-$45 per course for lab courses.
- Loan Processing Fee (tuition and personal loans): $35 (payable at sign-up)
- Returned Check Charge: $30
- Reinstatement Fee: $200
- Late Registration Fee: $100
- Late Payment Fee (student account): $25 at each payment date during the semester
- Late Payment Fee (tuition/personal loans): $25 per loan
- Minimum Interest Charge (emergency loans or book vouchers): $5
Resident Cost
Full-time enrollment for undergraduate students is considered 12 credit hours or more.
Direct Costs are costs that are billed to the student by the University and show up directly on the student's bill. These charges will need to be paid to the University the Friday prior to the start of each semester. If you are a student living on campus with a meal plan then you will have University charges for tuition & fees, students selected campus housing & meal plan. Housing charges and meal plan costs shown below are averages. Costs will vary based on the student's selections.
Estimated On-Campus Direct Costs Per Academic Year
| Tuition & Fees (Estimated amount for 15 credit hours per semester) | $22,266 |
| On-Campus Housing & Meal Plan | $9,808 |
| Total Estimated Direct Costs | $32,074 |
Books & Supplies
*Estimated costs for books and supplies for the academic year, vary based on the program the student is pursuing, the courses that are taken, and how they are purchased. Some courses and majors require more supplies, such as printing, copying, or software costs.
| Books & Supplies | $1,202 |
Indirect Costs are estimated educational costs that students may have and will not show on their student bill from the University. No money is paid directly to the University for estimated indirect costs.
Estimated On-Campus Indirect Costs Per Academic Year
| Transportation | $1,364 |
| Personal | $1,604 |
Direct Costs + Books + Indirect Costs = COA
| On-Campus Direct Costs Per Academic Year *Estimated | |
| Tuition & Fees (Estimated amount for 15 credit hours) | $22,266 |
| On-Campus Housing & Meal Plan | $9,808 |
| + BOOKS & SUPPLIES | $1,202 |
| + INDIRECT COSTS PER ACADEMIC YEAR*ESTIMATED | |
| Transportation | $1,364 |
| Personal | $1,604 |
| = TOTAL COA | $36,244 |
Full-time enrollment for undergraduate students is considered 12 credit hours or more.
Direct Costs are costs that are billed to the student by the University and show up directly on the student's bill. These charges will need to be paid to the University the Friday prior to the start of each semester. If you are a student living on campus with a meal plan then you will have University charges for tuition & fees, students selected campus housing & meal plan. Housing charges and meal plan costs shown below are averages. Costs will vary based on the student's selections.
Estimated Off-Campus Direct Costs Per Academic Year
| Tuition & Fees (Estimated amount for 15 credit hours per semester) | $22,266 |
| Total Estimated Direct Costs | $22,266 |
Books & Supplies
*Estimated costs for books and supplies for the academic year, vary based on the program the student is pursuing, the courses that are taken, and how they are purchased. Some courses and majors require more supplies, such as printing, copying, or software costs.
| Books & Supplies | $1,202 |
Indirect Costs are estimated educational costs that students may have and will not show on their student bill from the University. No money is paid directly to the University for estimated indirect costs.
Established Off Campus Indirect Costs Per Academic Year
| Transportation | $2,396 |
| Personal | $1,604 |
Direct Costs + Books + Indirect Costs = COA
| Off-Campus Direct Costs Per Academic Year *Estimated | |
| Tuition & Fees (Estimated amount for 15 credit hours) | $22,266 |
| Off-Campus Estimated Housing & Meal Plan | $11,704 |
| + BOOKS & SUPPLIES | $1,202 |
| + INDIRECT COSTS PER ACADEMIC YEAR*ESTIMATED | |
| Transportation | $2,396 |
| Personal | $1,604 |
| = TOTAL COA | $39,172 |