3-Peat Tuition
The Texas Legislature eliminated funding to universities of higher education for students enrolled in courses that are attempted three or more times. An attempted course is defined as any course in which a grade is earned on the transcript or courses dropped after the census date (12th class day in fall or spring semesters, 4th class day in summer sessions.)
In order to compensate for this loss of state funding, students attempting a course for the third or more time will be required to pay an additional $100.00 per semester credit hour for the repeated course. This additional tuition for repeated courses will be assessed for courses attempted at Stephen F. Austin State University for the third time beginning in Spring 2007.
This assessment does not include courses attempted at other colleges or universities. Other exemptions for repeated hours for attempted courses are as follows:
- Up to 18 hours of remedial and development courses.
- Hours for special topics and seminar courses that may be taken for additional credit toward a degree.
- Hours for courses that involve different or more advanced content each time they are taken, including but not limited to, individual music lessons, Workforce Education Courses, manual special topic courses(when the topics change), theater practicum, music performance, ensembles, certain physical education, kinesiology courses, and studio art.
- Hours for independent study courses.
- Classes taken prior to the Fall of 2002.
- A student shall be exempted from payment of higher tuition for any course repeated in the final semester or term before graduation, if the course(s) is taken for the purpose of receiving a grade that will satisfy a degree requirement. This exemption applies for only one semester. The exemption does not affect an institution’s ability to charge a higher tuition rate for courses that cannot be reported for funding for other reasons such as the excess credit hour limit.