All students are required to pay tuition to help defray the cost of instruction and general operation of the University. The following rates include local and state tuition:
Resident - Undergraduate
$179.77
Resident - Graduate
$209.77
Non-Resident -Undergraduate
$503.77
Non-Resident - Graduate
$562.77
Resident -Graduate College of Business and College of Nursing
$229.77
Non-resident - Graduate College of Business and College of Nursing
$582.77
per semester credit hour
Academic Affairs Instr/Enhan Fee
A fee assessed to all students enrolled to help defray the cost of supporting the expansion of key academic areas and faculty and staff related services.
$7.50 per course
Agriculture & Human Resources Course Fee
A fee assessed to all agriculture and human resources courses to help defray the cost to provide instruction and materials for the course.
$15.00 per course
Application for Admission
A fee assessed to all students applying for admission to the University. The fee helps to defray the costs associated with the admissions function.
Undergraduate
$25.00
Late Fee
$15.00
International Student
$50.00
Graduate Student
$50.00
Doctoral Student
$50.00
Nursing Student
$60.00
Executive MBA
$50.00
On-Line MBA
$1,800.00
per semester
Architecture Course Incidental Fee
A fee assessed to all students enrolled in certain Architecture Lab courses to help defray the cost of supporting student's plotting and printing expenses in their education and development
$10.00 per course
Architecture Studio/Lab Course Fee
A fee assessed to all students enrolled in certain Architecture Lab courses to help defray the cost of supporting student's plotting and printing expenses in their education and development
$116.00 per course
***Athletic Fee
Fee charged to all students to help increase scholarships, help defray the cost of upgrades to facilities and equipment, and assist in salaries of coaches.
$10.00
Maximum fee is $150 per semester.
per credit hour
Auditing
A fee assessed to students desiring to audit a course. The fee is used to defray the administrative cost associated with providing the services.
$10.00 per course
Biology Equipment
A fee assessed to students enrolling in Biology courses to help defray the cost of providing and maintaining instructional equipment.
Access Fee
$60.00 per course
Biology Experiment Fee
A fee assessed to biology lab courses to help defray the cost of maintenance and repair of lab equipment and supplies.
$20.00 per course
Board Plan
A charge assessed to all students living on campus to cover the cost of providing the following required meal plans:
Fall/Spring Semester
17 Meals per week, 100 points
$1,202.53
14 Meals per week, 75 points
$1,140.57
10 Meals per week, 125 points
$1,065.98
7 Meals per week, 115 points
$977.63
Summer Session 2012
17 Meals per week
10 week session
$925.55
5 week session
$462.77
These charges are subject to State Sales Tax.
Business Advisement Fee
Fee charges to all Business students to help offset the cost of Academic Advising to all business students.
$3.00 per semester hour
Business Course Fee
Fee charged to all students enrolling in Business Professional Development courses to help offset some of the expenses related to providing enhancements, speakers and support to the Professional Development Courses.
$300.00
per course
Business Instr/Enhan Fee-Grad
A fee assessed to all college of business graduate students to help defray the cost of improving retaining quality faculty.
$150.00 per course
Business Instr/Enhan Fee-Undergrad
A fee assessed to all college of business undergraduate students to help defray the cost of improving retaining quality faculty.
$30.00 per course
Chemistry Instructional Enhancement Fee
A fee assessed to all chemistry courses to help defray the cost of instructional assistance; purchase and maintain equipment for instructional laboratories, supplemental teaching materials, and educational supplies all to provide the student with a better learning environment.
$50.00 per course
College of Business Student Support Fee
tutoring services, student travel, scholarships and image building activities to promote PVAMU students to potential employers.
$5.00 per course
Diploma/Graduation
A fee assessed to graduating students to help defray the costs associated with performing a degree audit and issuing a diploma to student. The fee is as follows:
Doctoral
$55.00
Graduate (Masters)
$35.00
Undergraduate
$25.00
Late Fee
$25.00
per degree
Distance Learning Fee
A fee assessed to all students who take only electronically-delivered courses.
$35.00 (fall/spring)
Per semester credit hour
Education Belize Study Tour
A fee assessed to all students who participate in the Belize Study Tour
$2,610.00 per person
Education Clinical Practice Course Fee
A fee assessed to all college of education students enrolled in certain courses to help defray the cost of facilitating the state mandated visits and weekly seminars focusing on mentoring as support for rigorous clinical practice affecting student teachers, aspiring principals, counselors, superintendents and doctoral internships as required by state law
$375.00 per course
Education Egypt Study Tour
A fee assessed to all students who participate in the Egypt Study Tour
$3,800.00 per person
Education Equipment Fee
A fee assessed to all college of education students enrolled in certain courses to help defray the cost of maintaining an upgraded dedicated computer lab with access for all students.
$40.00 per course
Education Jamaica Study Tour
A fee assessed to all students who participate in the Jamaica Study Tour
$1,925.00 per person
Education Nairobi Study Tour
A fee assessed to all students who participate in the Nairobi Study Tour
$5,895.00 per person
Education South Africa Study Tour
A fee assessed to all students who participate in the South Africa Study Tour
$4,100.00 per person
Education Test Preparation Fee
A fee assessed to all college of business students enrolled in certain courses to help defray the cost of purchasing consumables for on-going assessment and computers for assessment and advising of all college students.
$75.00 per course
Engineering Advisement Fee
A fee assessed to all engineering students to help defray the cost of specialized advising staff, student learning activities and speakers, learning rewards in limited circumstances, supplies and equipment for the center, and professional development for the advisors.
$25.00 per semester
Engineering Graduate Course Fee
A fee assessed to all graduate students enrolled in Engineering courses to help defray the cost of providing and maintaining instructional equipment.
A fee assessed to all undergraduate students enrolled in Engineering courses to help defray the cost of providing and maintaining instructional equipment.
$50.00 per course
Equipment Access Fee
A fee assessed to students enrolled in Business courses to help defray the cost of providing and maintaining instructional equipment.
$40.00 per course
Excess Course Repeat Fee
A fee assessed to all students repeating a particular course for the 3rd time. This fee will help off-set the reduction in general revenue appropriations.
$351.00 per S.C.H. for the course that is repeated a third time.
I.D. Card
A fee assessed to all students to cover the cost of issuing identification cards and maintaining the University's card access system.
$5.00 per semester
$35.00 duplicate-per card
Installment Carrying
A fee assessed to all students electing to pay by the installment plan. The fee is used to help defray the cost associated with record keeping and collections.
$50.00 per semester
Installment Late
A fee assessed to all students who have not paid their installment payments by the due date. The fee is used to help defray the cost associated with record keeping and collections.
$50.00 per occurrence
International
All students are required to pay a fee to provide funding to assist students participating in international student exchange or study programs.
A fee assessed to all juvenile justice and psychology courses to help defray the cost of instructional assistance; purchase and maintain equipment for instructional laboratories, supplemental teaching materials, and educational supplies all to provide the student with a better learning environment.
$30.00 per course
Lab Fees
Students who register for lab courses are required to pay a Laboratory fee for each lab course to help defray the cost for lab equipment, supplies etc.
$30.00 per Chemistry Lab
$5.00 per P.E. class
$12.00 per Music class
$10.00 per other labs
Language & Communications Instructional Enhancement/
A fee assessed to students enrolled in Language & Communication courses to help defray the cost of providing and maintaining instructional equipment.
$40.00 per course
Language & Communications Multi Media Lab Fee
A fee assessed to all students enrolled in certain language and communication courses to help defray the cost of replacement of student computers and LAN hardware in the Multimedia Language Lab and the cost to maintain supervision of the lab.
$17.00 per course
Laundry Plan
A charge assessed to students living on campus to cover the cost of providing a centralized Laundromat. The charges assessed are:
$65.00 per semester
Fall/Spring Semester
Summer Session
10 week session
$46.44
5 week session
$23.21
These charges are subject to State Sales Tax.
***Library Access Fee
All students are required to pay a Library Access Fee to help defray the cost of providing library resources.
$16.00 per semester credit hour
Library Fines
Students who return late or lose library books will be subject to library fines.
Over-due books:
$0.25 per day
Reserved Materials:
$0.02 per day minimum
$50.00 maximum
Lost Book:
Replacement Cost + $15.00
Loan Processing Fee(short term loan)
A fee assessed to all students that complete a short-term loan application to help defray the cost of processing the loan application.
$100.00 per semester per application
Music Applied Course Fee
Fee charged to all students enrolling in Music courses involved in private instruction to help defray the cost of equipment repairs, departmental operations, equipment maintenance and purchase of new equipment.
$45.00 - $115.00
per course
New Student Orientation Fee
A fee assessed to all freshman and transfer students to help defray the cost of printing, mailings, auxiliary/custodial & maintenance services, Sodexho food services and the Challenge Work Course when preparing for the required New Student Orientation given to new students.
$75.00 per freshman student
$25.00 per transfer student
One Time Fee
Nursing Course Test Fee
A fee assessed to all graduate nursing majors taking specific nursing courses to pay for testing fees, clinical course fees, standardized patient testing, course packets and liability insurance required of graduate nursing students.
A fee assessed to all undergraduate nursing majors and all undergraduate nursing majors taking specific nursing courses to pay for testing fees, clinical course fees and liability insurance required of undergraduate nursing students.
$105.00 per course
Nursing Graduate Course Fee/Didactic
$125.00 per course
Nursing Graduate Course Fee/ Laboratory
$172.50-$203.00
per course
Nursing Liability Insurance Fee-Graduate
$35.50 per semester(fall/spr)
Nursing Liability Insurance Fee-Undergraduate
$8.50 per semester(fall/spr)
Nursing Undergrad. Course Fee/Didactic
$85.00 per course
Physics Equipment Fee
Fee charged to all students enrolling in Physics courses to help defray the cost of equipment, equipment repair, replacement, and necessary upgrades and modernizations.
$50.00
per course
Maximum $150.00
Records Processing Fee
Fee charged to all students to help defray the cost of producing, distributing, processing and filing printed materials handled in the Registrar's Office
$17.00 per semester
**Recreational Fee
A fee assessed to all students enrolled to help defray the cost of providing a game room, classes, swimming pool, indoor track, small dining hall, workout facilities, and entertainment system/movie room.
$175.00 per semester
Registration
If applicable students are required to pay a fee to cover:
Late Registration (fall/spring)
$50.00
Late Registration (summer)
$25.00
Registration in Absentia (resident)
$15.00
Registration in Absentia (non-resident)
$17.50
Returned Check
A fee assessed to students whose check for payment of their fees or applications that does not clear their bank. The fee is used to defray the costs associated with handling/collecting returned checks.
$25.00 per check
Room Rent
A charge assessed to students living on campus to cover the cost of operating the privately operated housing facilities.
Fall/Spring Semester
University Village
4 bedroom-Phase I & II
$2,254.50
Phase I and II
2 bedroom-Phase II
$2,538.00
Phase II
4 bedroom-Phase III
$2,583.00
Phase III
2 bedroom-Phase III
$2,902.50
Phase III
4 bedroom-Phase VI
$2,704.50
University College
$2,448.00
Summer Session 2012
University Village
$2,376.00
4 bedroom-Univ Vill
10 week session
$1,052.00
5 week session
$526.00
2 bedroom-Univ Vill
10 week session
$1,104.00
5 week session
$552.00
University College
$550.00
5 week session
per semester
On-campus housing is not assessed automatically. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that housing is paid in full. Room rent fee will only be assessed to the student's PVAMU tuition and fee bill if the student has indicated to Housing that their financial aid will pay for their room rent. If the student's financial aid should not be enough to pay the full room rent fee or has financial aid returned, the student is responsible for paying the balance of the room rent due. Any student with past due housing from previous semesters will be dropped from classes when the new semester starts if the unpaid prior balance is not paid in full.
**Transportation Fee
A fee assessed to all student to help defray the cost of expansion of the shuttle service in the local community and to and from the PVAMU Northwest Houston Center
$20.00
Scholarship/Endowment Fee
A fee assessed to all students to establish an endowment fund to be used for student scholarships and internships
$10.00 per semester
Social Work Course Fee
Fee charged to students enrolling in Social Work Professional Foundation related courses to help offset some of the expenses incurred by the Program.
$25.00 - $70.00
per course
**Student Center
All students are required to pay a student center fee, which is used to support the construction, operation and maintenance of the Memorial Student Center.
$40.00 (fall/spring) per semester
$20.00 (summer) per session
**Student Health
All students are required to pay a student health fee to cover the cost of providing basic health care and urgent care services in the University's Health Center. Students are entitled to unlimited office visits in the University's Health Center and a 15% discount on lab, x-ray and pharmacy services.
$105.0 per fall/spring semester
$37.50 per summer session
**Student Services
All students are required to pay a student service fee, which is used to provide recreational activities, intercollegiate athletics, student publications, and other student programs, services and activities. Maximum fee is $160 per fall/spring semester.
$14.00 per semester hour
*** Univ. Info. & Tech. Fee
All students are required to pay a University Information & Technology Fee to help defray the cost of "technology" equipping new buildings, implementing new student information system, and the development of a long term plan to integrate the computing technology into PVAMU classrooms.
$16.50 per semester credit hour
University Band Fee
A fee assessed to participants in the band to help defray the cost of expenses related to participation in the band.
$50.00 per semester
University College Access Participation Fee
A fee assessed to all participants in the University College Access Program
$500.00 per person
University College Advisement Fee
A fee assessed to all freshman students to help defray the cost of specialized advising staff, student learning activities and speakers, learning rewards in limited circumstances, supplies and equipment for the center, and professional development for the advisors.
$100.00 (one-time fee) per freshman student
University College Course Fee
A fee assessed to students enrolled in non-course based remediation to help defray the cost of administering the remediation program.
$100.00 per course (credit hr course)
$400.00 per course (zero credit hr course)
Vehicle Registration
A fee assessed to all students operating vehicles on campus to cover the cost of providing and maintaining parking facilities.
