Guaranteed Tuition Plan
The Guaranteed Tuition Plan is designed to help students and their families better plan for the cost of a college education, while allowing the University to maintain the quality of its academic programs.
Lock in Your Tuition
View the tuition and fee schedule for guaranteed tuition rates.
The UT Dallas Guaranteed Tuition Plan promises to lock your tuition rate and mandatory fees for the four-year period beginning with your registration. Tuition is charged on an hourly rate up to 15 hours for Texas residents.
Enroll for Fall 2011, Spring 2012 or Summer 2012 and use the fixed tuition rate for Fall 2011, a rate that is good for 12 consecutive semesters including summers.
The Guaranteed Tuition Plan offers these advantages:
- Families can better plan for the cost of education.
- Students have an incentive to graduate on time. Additional courses taken beyond 15 credit hours are essentially free for in-state students.
- Transfer students can take advantage of the guaranteed tuition lock through the Comet Connection.
It also provides an incentive for students to earn a degree in a timely manner, since additional courses taken beyond 15 credit hours each semester will, in essence, be free to in-state students. (Charges per semester credit hour for tuition and mandatory fees at UT Dallas depend on the number of hours for which a student enrolls up to 15.)
Non-resident students (those who are from out of state) pay a differential rate per credit hour.
Other non-mandatory fees including, for example, parking, and housing fees, will be subject to change.
Changes to The Guaranteed Tuition Plan
Beginning in Fall 2011, the following adjustments to the program will be enacted:
- The Continuing Student rate will be discontinued after Summer 2011. Students who were charged at that rate will, beginning in Fall 2011, be charged the Fall 2008 rate.
- Similarly, for students who began their UT Dallas education in Fall 2007, their 2007 tuition rate will expire at the end of Summer 2011. From then on, beginning in Fall 2011, they will be charged at the Fall 2008 tuition rate. When the rate plan of students who began in Spring 2008 expires, they will be placed in the Spring 2009 rate plan, and so on.
- After students migrate to the new tuition rate, they will keep it for one year, at which point they will be assessed the following year's guaranteed rate. For example, students who complete their 12 semesters at the Fall 2008 rate will be shifted to the Fall 2009 rate for one year. After that year, they will be shifted to the Fall 2010 rate, and so on.
The Comet Connection
Those who begin their college careers at a community college will also be able to take advantage of UT Dallas' Guaranteed Tuition Plan under a new program called the Comet Connection.
Every two-year college in Texas, both public and private, participates in the Comet Connection.
For More Information
Students need to contact the Office of Admission and Enrollment Services at 972-883-2270 or got to utdallas.edu/connect for more information.
UT Dallas is one of a handful of public universities in the U.S and two in the University of Texas System that offer students fixed tuition and mandatory fees.
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