Tuition, Fees, Housing and Board Costs

	Tuition
	Reciprocity Agreements Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE) Minnesota Reciprocity Agreement Adjacent State Tuition Rate (Nebraska and Iowa)
	Responsibility for Payment
	South Dakota Residency

Tuition 

The above tuition and fees are established by the Board of Regents and may be changed at any time without prior notification. Registration is not complete until all tuition and fees are paid in full. All fees, payments, and fines (including parking fees and fines) must be satisfied before any student records will be released.

*      The application fee shall be assessed on a per institution basis for all initial
              applicants prior to attending any regental institution. The fee shall also be
              assessed on all applications to graduate schools. As identified in Board of
              Regents Policy 2:3, Section 3.E, any student returning to the institution or a
              student who is transferring from one regental institution to another shall not be
              assessed the application fee a second time.

**    $5.00 for the first transcript and $2.50 for each additional transcript, per request.

Reciprocity Agreements

Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE)

Dakota State University participates in an undergraduate student exchange program, (WUE) Western Undergraduate Exchange, coordinated by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Through this program, students from Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming may enroll in designated two-year and four-year institutions and programs in other participating states at a level lower than non-resident tuition. The tuition level for participants in the program is usually set at the resident rate plus 50 percent. For further information on this exchange program, contact Enrollment Services.

Minnesota Reciprocity Agreement

Minnesota residents shall be charged the rate established in the tuition reciprocity agreement between the South Dakota Board of Regents and the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board. For further information on this exchange program, contact Enrollment Services.

Adjacent State Tuition Rate (Nebraska and Iowa)

First-time freshmen and new transfer students from adjacent states not participating in WUE who have enrolled in the Regental system beginning with the Summer 2000 session will receive a reduced tuition rate. This rate is available to undergraduate students only.

Responsibility for Payment

Payment of tuition, fees, and other charges owed to Dakota State University is the responsibility of the student. If a student fails to pay an amount owed by the established due date, the University will assess a late payment fee at the rate approved by the Board of Regents (currently no more than $50). Further, all accounts that the university is unable to collect will be submitted for collection and forwarded to a credit reporting bureau. The university will recover from the debtor all collection fees and attorney's fees that result from collection of an account.

A student who adds any class hours after the billing invoices are issued for the semester must pay for those class hours by the established payment deadline or within 5 working days of registering for the class(es), whichever is later. Billing invoices for fall semester will be issued in early August; billing invoices for spring semester will be issued in late December. The university will not send billing invoices for added class(es). It is the student's responsibility to ascertain the amount due and remit it to the university. If a student does not meet the deadlines above, late payment penalties will be added. Failure to attend class will not cancel the student's financial obligation to the university.

South Dakota Residency

To be classified as a South Dakota resident, a student must: 1) have been a bona fide emancipated resident of the state for at least 12 months, or 2) be the spouse or minor dependent of an emancipated person who has moved to the state for employment, or 3) must have married a bona fide resident of South Dakota. To change his/her state of residence to South Dakota for tuition purposes, a student must make application and be granted South Dakota residency by the Enrollment Services Center in Vermillion. The request to change residency status may be obtained from Enrollment Services at DSU. The request, along with all supporting documents, must be submitted to the Enrollment Services Center in Vermillion not later than the last day of late registration for the semester for which a student is applying for residency.

Physical presence in South Dakota for the predominant purpose of attending a university or other institution of higher learning does not count in determining the 12-month period of residence.