| PROGRAM
FEES, PAYMENT, & REFUND POLICY |
| PROGRAM
FEES |
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Do
guest students pay the same fees as NMSU students? (View
current FEES Schedule) |
| Yes. Guest
students are charged the same fees as NMSU students
who study abroad. |
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Do
guest students pay application fees? |
Yes,
to NMSU or to other providers. Students
applying to ISEP exchanges or ISEP-direct,
or to some other non-exchange programs, through
NMSU will pay the application fees to the provider
and/or NMSU. For all other exchanges, the Office
of Study Abroad charges an Application
Processing Fee to recover its cost
of processing applications and setting up records
on students.
Program costs are summarized by the Program
Overviews of programs available
to guest students. Students may also review
the Study
Abroad Administrative Fees Schedule.
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Do
Guest students pay NMSU tuition to study abroad? |
YES,
for exchanges. Depends, for
special programs. Students studying
on exchange will always pay the current full-time
NMSU tuition and fee rate in effect for undergraduates.
Students enrolling in special NMSU sponsored
programs will also pay for instructional costs
which may be more or less than traditional
tuition.
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Do
Guest students pay NMSU room and meal plans to
study abroad? |
YES,
for ISEP exchanges and some other exchanges. ISEP
and some other exchanges are full-benefit programs,
so students pay NMSU tuition, room and meal
plan rates, then while enrolled at the host
university abroad these benefits provided to
them by the host institution. Some exchanges,
however, are tuition only.
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Are
any other administrative fees charged by NMSU
for study abroad? |
Yes. The
Office of Study Abroad charges a Program
Administration Fee each semester of
enrollment to recover on-going administrative
costs to support students who go abroad. This
fee is charged only if the student attends a
program in which they were placed. Under certain
circumstance, this fee is waived.
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Do
guest students pay all costs of study abroad
to NMSU? |
NO. Students
will pay ISEP their application fee and the cost
of its mandatory insurance, and if enrolled in ISEP-Direct,
they will pay all tuition, housing, and meal
plan fees to ISEP, not NMSU. If enrolled in a
bilateral exchange for which NMSU charges only
tuition, students would pay the host institution
or private contractors for the cost of housing,
meals, etc.
GUEST SUDENTS MUST VERIFY WHAT
MUST BE PAID TO NMSU or to the HOST INSTITUTION.
The estimated cost of each program is provided in
the Guest
Program Overview section of this web site. Also
a guide for estimating study abroad costs is provided under
the How
to Plan section of this web site.
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| PAYMENT
POLICY |
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How
do guest students pay NMSU for its required charges? |
Guest
students must pay NMSU's Application Processing
Fee by check made out to NMSU, or by credit card.
Program applications may not be forwarded without
pre-payment.
All other charges payable to NMSU must be paid by credit card. The Office
will send the student an e-mail stating the full amount due for tuition,
housing, meal plan, administrative fee, (and insurance if student choses
NMSU's plan). Students should receive this e-mail message by mid-August
for Fall, and mid-January for Spring. Download the Guest
Student Agreement for credit card authorization.
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How
do guest students pay other providers for its
required charges? |
NMSU
will only charge the cost of study abroad due
to NMSU to the student's credit card. Anything
due to cooperating organizations, such as ISEP
for their insurance fee or for the ISEP-Direct
program costs, are paid to the cooperating organization
according to their policy and payment schedule.GUEST
STUDENTS MUST CHECK WITH HOST PROVIDERS TO DETERMINE
WITH THEM THEIR PAYMENT SCHEDULE AND THEIR PREFERRED
METHOD OF PAYMENT.
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Will
guest students home institution's financial aid
be paid directly to NMSU. |
No. Guest
students are responsible for these payments.
Their home institution may help them receive
financial aid, but this aid may not be available
at by the deadline for paying for the NMSU study
abroad program. The Office of Study Abroad will
provide program cost statements upon request,
and verify that NMSU financial aid is not being
provided to the guest student. Students need
to be aware that program fees will be due upon
receipt of the NMSU e-mailed invoice (mid-August
and/or mid-January). Students need to be ready
to cover the payment with a credit card.
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| REFUNDS |
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Are
Application Processing Fees refundable? |
No,
unless the guest student could not be placed
or the program was cancelled? Students need to
be certain that they want to study abroad before
applying. Students who pay the fee, then withdraw,
but want to reapply to the same or a different
program within one year of paying the fee, will
receive a credit of $100 toward
the next Application Processing Fee. (For ISEP,
follow their refund policy.)
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Are
Program Administration Fees refundable? |
No. Once
guest students accept placement in a program,
they are liable for the Program Administration
Fee as an unrecoverable cost. Students entering
into a contract for an academic year program
are obligated to pay the fee for both semesters,
even if they return after one semester.
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Are
tuition, room and meal plan payments refundable? |
Not
always. Once guest students accept
placement in a program and have been invoiced
the required tution, housing, and meal plan
fees, if students withdraw NMSU may only refund
recoverable costs of the program. What is recoverable
depends on whether or not the host exchange
university agrees to adjust the exchange balance
to zero. If they refuse to adjust the exchange
balance to zero, no refund is possible since
NMSU is obligated to pay for their incoming
student.
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