Graduate Students | Student Financial Services

RIT’s definition of full-time status for graduate students is 9 or more hours of semester credit for reporting purposes. For tuition assessment, students will be charged the part-time rate for 1 to 11 hours and the full-time rate at 12 to 18 hours. Financial aid will be applied accordingly.

Full-Time Rate

Expenses	Per Semester	Per Year (2 Semesters)
Tuition (12-18 credit hours)	$29,551	$59,102
Student Activities Fee	$200	$400
Student Health Services Fee	$275	$550
Total	$30,062	$60,052

Students registered for 9 or more credit hours are charged a $200 Student Activity Fee per semester.
Students registered for 9 or more credit hours are charged a $275 Student Health Services Fee per semester.
Credit by experience/credit by exam is assessed at $579 per credit hour.
Students enrolled in more than 18 credit hours are charged $1,847 for each additional credit hour.
Courses taken for audit are assessed tuition at one-half the normally assessed rate.

Part-Time Rate

Credit Hours	Rate
1	$2,463
2	$4,926
3	$7,389
4	$9,852
5	$12,315
6	$14,778
7	$17,241
8	$19,704
9	$22,167
10	$24,630
11	$27,093

Students registered for 9 or more credit hours are charged a $200 Student Activity Fee per semester.
Students registered for 9 or more credit hours are charged a $275 Student Health Services Fee per semester.
Graduate Internship Rate is $1,232 per credit hour.
Credit by experience/credit by exam is assessed at $579 per credit hour.
Courses taken for audit are assessed tuition at one-half the normally assessed rate.

It is a policy of the Institute that anyone who has completed 9 credits of thesis research (or 27 credits of dissertation research) must register every semester for a Continuation of Thesis course to remain an active student. Departments may offer graduate students a one semester extension of time before the Continuation of Thesis tuition is levied. Payment of all Continuation of Thesis is waived for all Summer semesters.