Hello, As I've announced in a previous message Excelsior is raising its fees starting July 1. Fortunately, it is only a slight increase. Anyways, here are the basic new payments: Enrollment/Initial Evaluation Fee: Associate: $725(currently: $685) Bachelor: $875(currently: $800) Student Service Annual Fee: Associate: $340(currently: $325) Bachelor: $380(currently:$350) Program Completion and Graduation Fee: Associate: $430(currently:$410) Bachelor: $465(currently: $440) Their website appears still not mention the fee change. Dennis Siemens
This seems like a reasonable increase. (Although the fees seem much higher than when I went there.) I seem to remember paying less than $700 for my initial evaluation. Am I wrong? Anyway: Thanks for posting this information.
I paid $75 for mine, plus $25 to graduate. Of course, that was in 1979, 1980, and then again in 1981. Rich Douglas
I've just found an old website listing Regents fees effective from September 1, 1995: http://pages.prodigy.com/TXKV53A/regfee.html At that time you were supposed to pay for enrollment/evaluation $565, annual fee of $270 and graduation fee $340/$370 associate/bachelor. So if you were using Regents back then only for the purpose of evaluation of previously earned credit you could complete you bachelor degree for less than $1000. Those were the days! PS: I admit, It's certainly far from rivaling that what Rich has paid, but all the same.
I have a different view. I think the fees are grossly high and are being used to hide the true cost of tuition. I know that in my field of engineering, marketeers will frequently move actual costs from one part of the system to another (between a single-item and a recurring item) to make the bid seem more appealing.
