Registration and Payment Invoice
As a first term new student, once you register for classes, a statement will be mailed to you showing both the amount owed and the date payment is due. After the add/drop period of your first term you become a continuing student and, instead of receiving your invoice in the mail, you will receive an e-mail at your Seattle University e-mail address to let you know that your Registration and Payment Invoice is available for viewing at SUOnline. While the online and paper versions of this statement look slightly different, they both provide the following information:
Tuition charges
Fees for the term
Room and board charges
Less deposits, payments
Balance due
- Your tuition charges as of the invoice date for the term indicated. Once all students' schedules have been released, your class schedule will also appear here.
- Your fees for the term
- Your room and board charges for the term, if you’ll live on campus
- Less any deposits, payments, payment plan enrollment fees and/or payment plan payments you’ve already made and less awarded financial aid applicable to your student account as of this invoice date. The estimated loans are approximate amounts based on the net amount after origination fees have been deducted.
Keep in mind that “Estimated Pending Financial Aid” will not actually be applied to your student account—moved from “pending” to “actual”—until all requested additional information has been received and processed and all required forms have been completed, submitted and processed.
- Your estimated balance due and payment due date. A minus (-) sign in front of the amount due means you have a credit balance. Do not pay a credit balance because this is an amount that the university will be refunding to you that you may then use to pay your other educationally-related expenses.
Refunds are released no sooner than the first day of class each quarter. If some or all of your tuition is paid by someone else (we call it a “sponsorship”), your refund won’t be released until after the end of the add/drop period.
Remember: the amount due is as of the statement’s date. This amount could change, going up or down, if changes are made to your award or charges … or both! So if you change your enrollment or receive notice that we’ve revised your award letter, be sure to return to your student account statement at SUOnline to see if the amount you owe has changed.
The tuition and fees you pay help to cover not only the direct costs of the classes in which you enroll but also the costs of providing library and health services, the student newspaper, allocations to student organizations, building funds and admission to athletic events.
Go to “Making a Payment” for information about options for paying your bill.
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