Policy on Payment of Room, Board and Tuition

All charges (room, board, tuition and fees) are payable in full upon registration. The following kinds of funds may be used for payment:

• Students are authorized to complete payments of tuition to the university using either their own personal funds, financial aid funds or both.
• Personal funds may be paid to the university in the form of cash, personal checks, cashier’s checks, certified checks, money orders, Western Union Quick Collect or any credit card recognized by the university. A service charge of $30.00 will be assessed for ALL returned checks. All payments may be made at the cashier’s window located in Student Center. All payments made through the U.S. Postal Service or any parcel service should be addressed as follows:

  Office of the Comptroller
  

  Alabama State University
  P.O. Box 271
  Montgomery, AL 36101-0271

• Financial aid funds may be paid to the university from one or more financial aid programs. These include, but are not limited to, loan programs (Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Stafford Loan, Federal PLUS Loan), grant programs (Federal Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Alabama State Assistance Grant), work program (Federal Work-Study Program), scholarship programs and benefit programs available from the Veterans Administration for the dependents of deceased or disabled veterans.

Any exception to full payment upon registration must be secured through the Office of Student Accounts in the form of a promissory note. The promissory note cannot be used to pay more than 40 percent of a current term’s total bill (including room and board as well as tuition and fees).

Promissory notes must be paid in full by the end of the fourth week of classes, regardless of the date of issuance.

Students who fail to redeem (pay) their promissory notes by the fourth week of classes will be administratively withdrawn (dis-enrolled) from the university during the fifth week. Reinstatement is prohibited unless disenrollment occurred as the result of an administrative error. Students are not permitted to remain in class (is) or to continue credit-generating work after their registration has been cancelled. Dis-enrolled students are ineligible to live in the residence halls. In case of default, and your account is submitted to a collection agency for collection the student is responsible for the full balance due plus all legal fees and collection costs associated with the collection of this debt.