Tuition and Fees
Students are assessed tuition and fees for summer courses, whether enrolled for credit or audit. Tuition and fees include Wisconsin Union membership and access to health and recreational-sports services for all students, except Guest students, who pay reduced rates. Special programs may carry miscellaneous fees.
Tuition and fees are subject to change without notice.
Tuition rates for Summer 2008
Billing and payment procedures
How much do I owe?
To view your account, go to MyUW Student Center. Click on Finances and then Tuition Account Summary/Make a Payment.
For changes made after the initial bill was printed that result in a decrease of charges, pay the lesser amount by using the initial bill and paying the new rate, which you can find on the tuition/fee schedule. For changes made after the initial bill was printed that result in an increase of charges, the additional charges will be billed later with a new due-date for the additional charges only. You must pay the amount due on the initial bill by the initial due-date to avoid the $100 late-payment fee. Do not wait for a revised bill to be sent before paying; if you miss the initial due-date you will be assessed the $100 late-payment fee.
How do I pay?
For up-to-date information on your tuition account balance, including your due-date, go to MyUW Student Center, click on Tuition Account Summary.
You can pay on line, by mail (to the Lockbox or to the Bursar’s Office), at the dropbox, and in person. Make checks payable to UW-Madison. Cash payments are only accepted in person. We do not offer debit or credit-card payments, no do we have installment plans. Payments must be received (not postmarked) in the Bursar’s Office or at the Lockbox address by the due-date. Allow five business days for domestic mail; consult the Post Office for adequate international mail time.
Paying online: To pay by e-check, access my.wisc.edu, select Student Center, then Tuition Account Summary, then Make a Payment. Parents wishing to pay on line should contact heir student.
Paying by mail, to Lockbox: UW-Madison, PO Box 3248, Milwaukee, WI 53201-3248. Send to this address only if you are enclosing the return portion of the tuition and fee bill that contains our bank’s scan line.
Paying by mail, to Bursar’s office: 21 N. Park St, Suite 7101, Madison, WI 53715. Send to this address via express/overnight mail, wihout the return section of the tuition and fee bill, or with a bill printed from MyUW.
Additional note for paying by mail: Payments from Wisconsin’s Edvest program and all other 529 accounts usually do not include the return portion of the tuition and fee bill; have these payments sent directly to the Bursar’s Office (see above); make sure that these programs know to send the payments in time to meet the due-date and avoid the $100 late-payment fee.
Dropbox: accesible 24 hours a day, the dropbox is on the north side of the 21 N. Park St. building. Do not put cash into the dropbox.
In person: 21 N. Park St, Suite 7101; M-F 8 am-4 pm.
What is the late-payment fee?
A late-payment fee of $100 is assessed to all students, including Specials and Guests, whose tuition and fee payments are received after the due-date printed on your bill. Failure to receive a bill is not accepted as a reason for missing the due date. You are responsible for keeping your address current via MyUW Student Center.
Appealing the late-payment fee
You may appeal the $100 late-payment fee to a representative of the Bursar’s Office: tuition@bussvc.wisc.edu. You may appeal the $25 late-initial-enrollment fee to the Registrar’s Office: tuition@em.wisc.edu. Provbide documentation clearly demonstrating that you were not at fault for failure to mee the appropriate deadline(s). Waiver of latefees is not granted if it is deemed that you could have met the deadline.
For more information about late payments, call the Bursar’s Office, Student Accounts, 608-262-3611; M-F 8 am-4 pm.
How do I apply financial aid to my tuition payment?
To be eligible for financial aid in summer, you must enroll at least half-time in a session of four weeks or longer. Summer aid is usually limited to Federal Stafford (FFELP) loans and Federal Work Study.
Most types of financial aid are applied directly to your Tuition and Fee Student Account to pay charges according to financial aid regulations. The earliest disbursement date for summer is five days before the first day of the session for which you are enrolled.
For more information about financial aid, access www.finaid.wisc.edu, or contact Student Financial Services, 608-262-4987, 432 N. Murray St.
For more information about tuition/fees, access www.bussvc.wisc.edu/bursar/samenu.html or e-mail your questions to tuition@bussvc.wisc.edu.
| Course Length | Refund Sched. for Withdrawals/Credit Changes |
Assess. Sched. for |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | After | Wk 1 |
Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | After | |
| 12 weeks & over |
100% | 100% | 50% | 50% | None | None | None | 50% | 50% | 100% |
| 8 - 11 weeks | 100% | 50% | 25% | None | None |
None | 50% | 75% | 100% |
100% |
| 5 - 7 weeks | 100% |
50% | None | None | None | None | 50% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 3 - 4 weeks | 100% | 25% | None | None | None | 75% | 100% | 100% | ||
| 2 weeks | 100% | None | None | 100% | ||||||
| Day of Course | Day of Course | |||||||||
Day 1 |
Day 2 | After | Day 1 | Day 2 | After | |||||
| 1 week session | 100% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||
Notes relating to refund and assessment schedule:
- The refund schedule for withdrawals applies to course drops as well as total withdrawals.
- You may not obtain a transcript or other records services, or enroll for a future term, until you make payment of appropriate assessment.
- This schedule also applies to students who have dropped courses after the end of the 100% refund schedule in the applicable session but who have not withdrawn.
Grades and transcripts
UW-Madison Official Scale of Grades
| GRADE POINTS | |
|---|---|
| GRADE | PER CREDIT |
A (Excellent) |
4 |
AB (Intermediate Grade) |
3.5 |
B (Good) |
3 |
BC (Intermediate Grade) |
2.5 |
C (Fair) |
2 |
D (Poor) |
1 |
F (Failure) |
0 |
Exclusions from the grade point average
S or U (Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory) in courses taken
on the pass/fail basis:
S for grades A through C; U for grades D and F.
Cr or N (Credit or No Credit) in courses offered on a credit/no
credit basis.
I (Incomplete), a temporary grade used when work is not completed
during a term. The symbol IN will be used to indicate
an incomplete in a Cr/N course.
Audited courses—AU in place of a number of credits—are graded
either S (Satisfactory) or NR (No Report).
NW (No Work)—the student never attended and no work was submitted.
In those few cases where no authorized grade is reported, NR ("not reported") is used for record purposes.
Repeating a course (whether failed or not)
Undergraduates may repeat any course once; all grades and grade-points are included in GPA, but credits count only once for any other purpose. Consult your dean’s office for requirements. You may repeat a course for which you have credit; these courses count for credit only once.
Pass/fail system, credit/no credit
You may take a course pass/fail if you do not use it to meet general degree or major course requirements; consult your dean’s office. The instructor is not aware the course is being taken as pass/fail; grades of A, AB, B, BC, and C are reported as S (Satisfactory), D or F as U (Unsatisfactory). Courses offered for credit/no-credit are so designated in the Timetable. No grade points are assigned for these courses; the credits are not averaged into your GPA.
The Incomplete
An Incomplete may be reported if you have passing grades until near the end of term and then, because of illness or other unusual circumstances beyond your control, are unable to complete final exam or some limited amount of work. An Incomplete is not given if you miss final exam except as indicated above. In absence of proof the grade is F; even with proof, the grade is F if instructor is certain you cannot pass.
Any course taken by Letters and Science undergraduate marked Incomplete must be completed by end of fourth week of your next term at UW-Madison (exclusive of Summer Sessions), or it lapses into a failure unless deadline is extended. All other undergraduates must finish Incompletes by end of your next term (exclusive of Summer Sessions).
College/School Specials are subject to rules applicable to your unit for Incompletes. University Specials have until end of their next term (exclusive of Summer Terms) to complete work and receive a final grade.
Graduate students: Incompletes are considered unsatisfactory if not removed by end of next term of residence. Graduate School Academic Student Services, 608-262-2433; 217 Bascom Hall.
Grade reporting
After the summer term is over you may print your grade report via my.wisc.edu. If you need a paper copy, request one through the Student Center at MyUW.
Academic record availability
To grant a third party (e.g., a parent, guardian, or spouse) access to your academic records, complete a form at Registrar’s Office, 21 N. Park St, Suite 7223. Authorization remains in effect until you change it; if none is on file, we assume you do not wish a third party to have such access. The University does not send grade reports to parents/guardians, but we urge you to keep your parents/guardians informed of your academic progress.
Transcripts
Official Transcripts bear the University seal and the Registrar’s signature and show all course work completed, courses in progress (if computer generated), and grades received, but not internal University memoranda. You may request official transcripts online, by mail, or in person at 21 N. Park St, Suite 7223.
Unofficial Student Records
Unofficial Student Records include Campus Copy Transcripts and student memoranda (e.g., a Dean’s Action) not printed on Official Transcripts. Campus Copy Transcripts carry neither the official UW-Madison seal nor the Registrar’s signature and are not official university documents.
You may request these records in person at 21 N. Park St, Suite 7233. Bring one form of picture identification, preferably your student ID. There is a limit of one copy per student per visit, but the records are printed on plain paper and can be easily copied. You may also request one at MyUW: go to the Student Center and order through the Request Your Student Record link.
Dropped courses and withdrawals on transcripts
For sessions of eight weeks and longer, drop/withdrawal (DR/W) deadline is Friday of first week. For sessions of seven weeks or less, deadline is Wednesday of first week. Courses dropped after deadline are recorded on your academic record and appear on transcripts. For withdrawals after deadline, withdrawal-date is entered in the term heading and W entered in grade column for each course of record.
See Key Deadlines.