Tuition and Fees Information (2024)

Health insurance is required for all full-time degree, resident, and international students with F1and J1 visas. Your automatic enrollment and charge will show on the bill. You can submit a request for a Health Insurance Waiver if you have comprehensive coverage that is valid for use in Washington, DC. All requests for a waiver must be submitted online by the deadline. For information on submitting waiver requests, please see the Health Insurance Waiver page. Detailed information on the Student Health Insurance Plan and waiver request process can be found on the Student Health Centerwebsite.

This mandatory fee is charged to all registered students. The fee is assessed to help pay a small portion of the university's overall technology costs. It helps to fund technology priorities, ranging from classroom instruction, faculty research, expanded computer labs, student portals, wireless connectivity, on-line registrations, faster internet connectivity, server upgrades, computer security, and administrative systems. Whether a student lives on-campus, off-campus, or abroad, the technology services are available to them.

Our sports center fee is charged to all registered students, and is usedto help pay for building maintenance and service costs associated withthe sports center complex. The fee is not a membership fee for use thefitness center. Any registered student can use the entire sports centercomplex facilities, including the fitness center.

The University Board of Trustees approves and encourages strong andviable student-sponsored programs that contribute significantly to theintellectual and social development of the student body, serve theuniversity academic goals, encourage student participation andleadership, and enhance the general campus environment. To finance thesestudent-run organizations and programs (over 160), the Board directsthe assessment of a mandatory non-refundable student activity/programfee. Depending on your student status, those fees will be labeled onyour student account statement as Undergraduate Activity Fee, GraduateActivity Fee, or WCL General Fee.

The Metro U-Pass fee is a mandatory fee charged to full time studentsenrolled in an on-campus program. The Metro U-Pass is valid forunlimited Metrorail and Metrobus transportation for the duration of thesemester (Fall/Spring). For more information about how to obtain yourU-Pass and for frequently asked question, please visit the Metro University Passpage.

Health insurance is mandatory for all full-time degree, resident, andinternational students, unless the student has comparable coverage underanother health insurance plan.If a student has comparable coverageunder another insurance plan, they must waive the AU health insuranceplan. Waivers must be completed on-line on the myau.american.edu portal. If the fee has already been assessed, the related insurance chargewill be removed within two business days of the waiver submission.Insurance waivers need to be performed each year. For more informationregarding Health insurance and wavier deadlines please visitHealthCenterHomepage.

The fee is used to cover expenses associated with professional programenhancements associated with the School of International Services. Thefee is charged to all SIS graduate students and joint CAS/SIS programstudents. The fee applies to all SIS M.A. programs, the MIS program andthe M.S. program.