There are four types of bills at Georgetown. Each has special characteristics, charges, and applicable rules for payment, so please read the information listed to be sure you are paying your bill in the correct fashion. Even if your program does not conform to the Main Campus calendar, it will be included in its billing schedule. Please be sure to check the Payment Due Dates page to find the precise date your bill is due. Regardless of the start date of your particular program, your bill must be settled by the close of Main Campus registration.


Fall Semester Bill

The bill for the fall semester at Georgetown is available for online access through MyAccess by the first week in July. Parents, read more about accessing your child's bill and the Privacy Act.

Payment is due on August 14th for the 2009 fall semester bill. If you do not settle your entire bill, you will be issued monthly online bills for the remaining balance due. Any charges past due will incur a fee at registration, and service charges each month they are outstanding.

Your billing statement will include any known charges and or credits, but isn't complete until you have completed your registration. At a minimum the bill should include:

Tuition. Please check the amount of tuition to be sure it is correct - if you plan on changing your registration (adding or dropping courses) your bill will be updated with your registration action. This is especially important if you are or plan to be a part-time student (and thus charged by the credit). Departmental fees such as lab and language fees will appear according to your registration. Student Accounts will not send new fall semester bills with new registration actions. It is the student's responsibility to monitor changes to his or her bill online. If no tuition appears on your bill please contact the Office of Student Accounts.

Student Health Insurance. Insurance is charged in the fall for the entire year. To complete your registration, you must either accept or waive your health insurance. Please read the information posted at the Student Health Insurance web site before proceeding to accepting/waiving your insurance online through MyAccess. There is a penalty for waiving the insurance policy after the waiver deadline. If you waive the insurance and do not see the charge removed from your bill within 48 hours, please contact the Student Health Insurance Office at 202.687.4883.

Yates Fee and Student Activities Fee. These fees are mandatory every semester for any full-time student. Undergraduates are full time at 12 or more credits. Graduates are full time at 8 or more credits. If you are registered as a full-time student and plan to change your registration to part-time, these fees will not be removed until you do so.

In addition to the three major charges listed previously, the following is a summary of some other major items that are charged or credited to a broad section of students. Read more about Georgetown Tuition and Fees. Please contact the Office of Student Accounts if you have any questions about the charges on your account.

Room and board are mandatory for freshmen & sophomores.

If you have a university housing assignment, you should have housing charges on your bill. Anyone with a housing charge will also have a Residential Communications charge. If you expect to have university housing and charges do not appear, contact the housing office.

If you have signed up for a university meal plan, these charges should appear on your bill. As a new entering student (whether freshman or transfer), you will be charged for the 14-meal-per-week plan. As a returning student in the spring semester, you will be charged for the same meal plan you were enrolled in at the end of the fall semester if you do not submit changes to your meal plan. Changes to the Meal Plan Contract must be made online through MyAccess. You may submit changes online through the end of the add-drop period. However, any changes submitted after registration will lead to pro-rated charges from the initial meal plan, whether meals were eaten or not. For changes after the add-drop period or other inquiries, contact dining services.

If you are a new entering student, you will be charged two one-time fees: a Transcript fee and an Orientation fee. These fees should not be charged of you ever again at Georgetown. You should also see a credit for your deposit on your bill.

If you have been awarded financial aid, these credits should appear on your bill. Read more about paying with Financial Aid. If you expect to receive financial aid and do not see the credits on your bill, please contact the OSFS (Financial Aid Office).

As noted previously, the Fall Semester Bill sent in July may or may not completely reflect your Student Account at registration. In order to complete your registration your account must be settled as of registration. Thus, in order to complete your registration and avoid late fees and service charges, you must monitor your bill online and ensure the bill as of registration is completely settled.


Spring Semester Bill

 The bill for the spring semester at Georgetown is available for online access through MyAccess by the first week in December. Parents, read more about accessing your child's bill and the Privacy Act.

Payment is due on January 5th for the 2009-2010 spring semester bill. If you do not settle your entire bill, you will be issued monthly online bills for the remaining balance due. Any charges past due will incur a fee at registration, and service charges each month they are outstanding.

Any charges from the fall semester bill that are unpaid as of the first week in December will be rolled over into the spring semester bill. This will be listed at the top of the bill as the previous unpaid balance. Note: You may not pre-register or register for spring semester if more than $2000 remains unsettled on your fall semester bill. You may access your fall semester bill online to see the detail of these charges.

The spring semester bill will be structured similarly to the fall semester bill. Read about the fall semester bill to familiarize yourself with charges and credits you should expect on your spring semester bill.

One difference between the spring and fall semester bills is the Student Health Insurance charge. Most students are charged for the plan and must accept or waive it in the fall. If you are a new entering student, you may become eligible in the spring and thus are charged on the spring bill for coverage through August of that year. You must either accept or waive your health insurance by January 31st. Please read the information posted at the Student Health Insurance web site before proceeding to accept or waive insurance online through MyAccess.

The Spring Semester Bill will be available online in December may or may not completely reflect your Student Account at registration. In order to complete your registration your account must be settled as of registration. Thus, in order to complete your registration and avoid late fees and service charges, you must monitor your bill online and ensure the bill as of registration is completely settled.


Monthly Bills

Monthly bills are made available online to anyone at Georgetown with a debit balance on their account after registration ends. The first monthly bill for the fall semester is as of August 31st. The first monthly bill for the spring semester is as of January 31st.

All monthly bills are as of the last day of the month. They are available online the first week of the month and are due on the 27th.

If the balance you are billed for is past due, there will be a service charge applied. In addition, if your bill is not settled at registration you will be charged a late payment fee on the first monthly bill you receive.

If the charge you are billed for is current, you will not be charged a service fee on that charge. A charge is current for the first monthly bill if it is added to your account after registration. A charge is current for subsequent monthly bills only if it has not been billed before. Library fines and other miscellaneous fees are charged to the Student Account and must be settled as they are billed or there will be service charges applied.

It is your (the student's) responsibility to monitor your bill online.

If your balance is not settled by the due date for the second monthly bill (October 27th in the fall, March 27th in the spring) you will not be allowed to pre-register or register until the balance is paid. You will continue to be billed and charged a service fee on any unpaid balance. If no attempt at payment is made your account may be sent to a collection agency and charged any fees Georgetown incurs in doing so.

Summer Bills

Summer school at Georgetown is run by the School of Continuing Studies (SCS). Please visit the Summer School web site for more information on registration for summer courses.

It is the student's responsibility to ensure his or her enrollment and registration is correct and that charges are paid in full by the deadline. online account statements will be available through first through StudentAccess+, and beginning in June, through MyAccess and Student Account Services.

When the Office of Student Accounts switches to the new student record system in June, you may ONLY view and make payments towards your account through Student Account Services. Registration changes will affect balance due, and the online bill will reflect these changes immediately.

View payment due dates for summer bills here.

If you are a summer only student, and payment is not remitted or arrangements made with the Office of Student Accounts by the payment due date, you will be dropped from your classes. To re-enroll you will need to make payment at the Office of Student Accounts and then have the Registrar's Office reinstate you to your classes.

If you are a Georgetown University student, you will be graded and held responsible for tuition and fees for all classes in which you enroll and do not follow formal withdrawal procedures.

You can make payments online for summer bills by either electronic check or credit card. Note: ONLY SCS charges may be paid by credit card. Charges other than for summer courses must be paid with another payment option.