Office of the Registrar

Tuition Surcharge

All new undergraduates seeking a baccalaureate degree at Fayetteville State University
will be subject to a 50% tuition surcharge if they take more than 140 credit hours to
complete a four-year degree program or more than 110% of the required credit hours to
complete the officially designated five year program.

Note: The State Scholarship Program for Children of War Veterans administered by the
North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs will not cover the 50% tuition surcharge.
Responsibility for the surcharge will be placed on the student. The State Scholarship
Program for Children of War will not pay for book rentals or insurance.

Counted Credit Hours

The undergraduate credit hours to be counted for this requirement include: (1) all regular
session degree-creditable courses taken at FSU, including repeated courses, failed
courses, withdrawal, and those dropped after the last date to add a course; and (2) all
transfer credit hours accepted by FSU. However, this calculation excludes the following
credit hours: (1) those earned through the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) and
College Level Examination Program (CLEP) or similar programs; (2) those earned
through institutional advanced placement, course validation, or other similar procedures
for awarding course credit; and (3) those earned through the summer session or degreecredit extension division at FSU or at another UNC institution.

Students Subject to the Surcharge

The surcharge shall be imposed on all counted credit hours in excess of the threshold
defined below for each of the following three categories of undergraduates:

For students earning a first baccalaureate degree in a program that requires no more than
128 credit hours, the surcharge shall be applied to all counted credit hours in excess of
140. For students earning a first baccalaureate degree in a Board-approved program that
requires more than 128 counted credit hours, the surcharge shall be applied to all credit
hours that exceed 110% of the credit hours required for the degree. Such programs
include those that have been officially designated by the Board of Governors as five-year
programs, as well as those involving double majors or combined bachelor’s/master’s
degrees. For students earning a baccalaureate degree other than the first, the surcharge
shall be applied to all counted credit hours that exceed 110% of the minimum additional
credit hours needed to earn the additional baccalaureate degree.

Students Exempt from the Surcharge

The surcharge shall not be imposed on undergraduates who: Complete a first
baccalaureate degree program that has not been officially designated by the Board of
Governors as a five- year program and whose counted credit hours were earned in eight or
fewer regular term semesters or the equivalent; or Complete a first baccalaureate degree
program that has been officially designated by the Board of Governors as a five-year
program and take their counted credit hours in 10 or fewer regular term semesters or the
equivalent.

Calculation of the Surcharge

The surcharge shall be imposed on tuition charged in the current semester and in
subsequent semesters where a student’s cumulative credit hour total including that
semester’s course load exceeds the threshold. The surcharge does not apply to required
fees.

Waiver of Tuition Surcharge

Please see Tuition Surcharge Waiver Procedures for information about receiving a surcharge waiver.

This information is pulled from the student handbook.