Tuition and Waivers Info for Student Employees

Tuition and Waiver Info for Student Employees

If you are working 20 hours per week as a GRA or TA this semester, the links below will be way helpful!

◦In-State Tuition Waiver: If you are a non-resident student employee (international student or non-resident of Texas) you will need to claim the employment waiver. This waiver will automatically bring your tuition rates down to in-state rates. The "real world" effect of this is that your tuition bill is cut in half, a very nice benefit :)

◦Health Insurance Waiver: If you are an international student employee for 20 hours per week you will also need to claim the health insurance waiver. An element of being an international student is that you HAVE to have health insurance for the whole year (fall, spring, summer), and if you do not, UT will buy it for you and charge you for it. As a TA/GRA for 20 hours per week, your health insurance is paid for, and thus, you can waive the extra cost.

◦Confirm Registration: After you have done all the waivers, and your tuition is processed, there is still the MOST important step of confirming your registration in the UT system.

◦Once your tuition bill balance is changed to zero, go to your My Tuition Bill page and click “confirm attendance” to secure your registration.

◦This part, highlighted in green above, is CRUCIAL. If you do not do this step, you get dropped from all your courses AND they charge you a late fee to enroll again. We try to avoid this at all costs, which is why I have highlighted everything in this bright green :)

◦If for any reason you have an amount due on your tuition bill when the payment/confirmation deadline is approaching, but you expected to see a $0.00 tuition bill, it’s best to go ahead and pay the amount due and to get reimbursed later after contacting your supervising professor’s administrative staff member.