Paying tuition while on internship

[Rivi]

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Hello everyone,

How does tuition work for your school while you are on internship? Does your school still make you pay, or are you able to avoid it?

 

[Pragma]

Hello everyone,

How does tuition work for your school while you are on internship? Does your school still make you pay, or are you able to avoid it?

I didn't pay tuition on internship. The school had us enrolled in some non-credit specifiers showing that we remained candidates, and had us register for something that was internship-related.

However, my program was funded so I am not certain if there would have been a cost associated with that had it not been funded. I have heard of other people paying for credits when on internship, which makes no sense to me.

 

[Rivi]

That is good your school does that. It makes absolutely no sense to pay tuition while on internship when I will have absolutely no contact with the school.

It is funny, no one has discussed this at all with me, including professors. There is a 9 credit internship class that we are supposed to take. I have been so busy trying to match and bang out my dissertation that I haven't really thought or planned this. My program is funded, but I may be able to work something out.

*EDIT* After reading my handbook, it appears that I will have to pay some tuition although the student fees are waived. WTF!!??

 

[AcronymAllergy]

That is good your school does that. It makes absolutely no sense to pay tuition while on internship when I will have absolutely no contact with the school.

It is funny, no one has discussed this at all with me, including professors. There is a 9 credit internship class that we are supposed to take. I have been so busy trying to match and bang out my dissertation that I haven't really thought or planned this. My program is funded, but I may be able to work something out.

*EDIT* After reading my handbook, it appears that I will have to pay some tuition although the student fees are waived. WTF!!??

My program was the opposite--we had a similar number of internship credit hours, but we received a tuition waiver that covered everything other than a couple hundred dollars' worth of student fees. Considering I still had access to distance resources (e.g., library, remote desktop with SPSS/SAS, etc.), I figured that wasn't a horribly bad deal.

A few of my internship cohortmates attended unfunded programs and were slapped with what sounded to be some pretty horrendous tuition bills.

 

[psypsypsy]

I went to a funded program, and we had to pay for 1 credit hour each semester for internship (plus student fees). I think it added up to somewhere between $1000-$1500, which was not fun on top of all of the other internship-related costs!

I will say that I was warned pretty far in advance that this would happen, and there's a lot of encouragement to become an in-state resident (they covered the fee for that), so that the costs comparatively less. Also, I've heard a number of conflicting answers (even within my own university) about how to take out loans internship year, and the number of credit hours needed to be enrolled in to be eligible for loans. I managed to not to have to take them out that year, so hopefully someone else can speak to those details!

 

[PhDMiss2014]

My program is funded and I have to enroll in a 1 credit hour class each semester of internship. No fees though.

 

[syzergy]

I'm in a funded program and we also enroll in a one hour "internship course". I think my program starting doing this so students on internship could delay the student loan repayments. It might be more than one credit but it'll be whatever the minimum is to maintain student status and defer loan payments. Although we're fully funded some students take out small student loans to help with internship and moving costs and generally get out of that grad student paycheck to paycheck living.

 

[thewesternsky]

We can down-grade to "part time status", which allows us to pay half the normal tuition costs. Because the program is fully-funded and tuition is pretty low to begin with, most of the students I've talked to say that this amount is manageable while on internship.

 

[LETSGONYR]

I went to a funded program, and we had to pay for 1 credit hour each semester for internship (plus student fees). I think it added up to somewhere between $1000-$1500, which was not fun on top of all of the other internship-related costs!

We also have to pay for 1 credit hour each semester. I think it solves the problem of continuous enrollment/having the registrar think we've graduated (they're not too smart over there...), as well as helping ensure we can defer loans. Though I think the costs for us are closer to $700-750.

 

[bmedclinic]

I went to a funded program, and we had to pay for 1 credit hour each semester for internship (plus student fees). I think it added up to somewhere between $1000-$1500, which was not fun on top of all of the other internship-related costs!

I will say that I was warned pretty far in advance that this would happen, and there's a lot of encouragement to become an in-state resident (they covered the fee for that), so that the costs comparatively less. Also, I've heard a number of conflicting answers (even within my own university) about how to take out loans internship year, and the number of credit hours needed to be enrolled in to be eligible for loans. I managed to not to have to take them out that year, so hopefully someone else can speak to those details!

word for word same experience. I wonder if we are/were in the same program.

 

[psychRA]

I'm in a funded program, and also register for internship credits. I pay the same student fee ($150 approximately) that I paid once a year during grad school, but that's all.

 

[Rivi]

Ok, good news, it looks my program only requires to be registered for 1 credit, over the course of three semester (fall, spring, summer), for a total of three credits. This will cost me about 1000$ overall.