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Education Fee
Assess: All students enrolled in education courses as per list of line numbers provided by the dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences, and approved by the vice president for academic affairs.
By: College of Education and Human Sciences
Amount:
- $179/semester - Sophomore/Junior Field Experience, SEED 314
- $358/semester - Senior Student Teaching, SEED 488, AGED 475, FCSE 473
- $179 one-time fee – Master's Level Internship, AHED 794, CHRD 794, CTE 794, EDAD 794, EDFN 794, SEED 794
Disposition:
- Professional Education Major Fee – Graduate TLL
- Professional Education Major Fee – Graduate Counseling and Human Resource Development
- Professional Education Major Fee – West River
- Professional Education Major Fee – Early Childhood Education Student Teaching
- Professional Education Major Fee – Undergraduate
- FSC Education Teachers Fee, Preschool HDCFS
Purpose: Help defray part of costs of teacher education.
Graduate Public Health Delivery Fee
Assess: All students enrolled in off-campus PUBH courses are assessed to support the incremental costs of additional equipment, support staff, space or facilities, student services, business services or library and related services for all courses in a program offered in an off-campus location.
By: College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Amount: $145.40 per credit hour for off-campus PUBH courses
Disposition: Outreach Fee
Purpose: Defray costs of salaries, supplies, transportation, equipment, etc.
Medical Laboratory Sciences Delivery Fee
Assess: Students enrolled in off-campus delivery of the professional portion of the program in lieu of students paying hospitals for clinical training.
By: College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Amount: $141.86 per credit hour for off-campus delivery fee.
Disposition: Medical Lab Sciences Delivery Fee
Purpose: To buy necessary equipment to offer clinical and lab training and for program operations.
Nursing Delivery Fee
Assess: All students enrolled in off-campus NURS or HSC courses are assessed to support the incremental costs of additional equipment, support staff, space or facilities, student services, business services or library and related services for all courses in a program offered in an off-campus location.
By: College of Nursing
Amount: $46.90 per credit hour for off-campus nursing.
Disposition: Outreach Fee
Purpose: Defray costs of salaries, supplies, transportation, equipment, etc.
Nursing Assessment Fee (BSN)
Assess: Prelicensure students enrolled in specific sections of NURS 334, 353, 344, 434, 472 (fall/spring) and NURS 353, 375, 453, 472, 473 (summer)
By: College of Nursing
Amount: $53.50 per semester in the last four semesters of the major.
Disposition: College of Nursing
Purpose: Defray costs of nationally normed assessment examinations integrated in four semesters of the prelicensure BSN program.
Flight Training Fee
Assess: Students who enroll in aviation flight training.
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Disposition: Aviation Flight Training Fee
Purpose: Defray cost of operating aviation flight training program.
Amounts:
- Cessna 172S G1000 $200/hr; Instruction: $75/hr
- Piper Arrow $200/hr; Instruction: $75/hr
- Piper Seminole $310/hr; Instruction: $75/hr
- Basic Training Device $70/hr; Instruction: $75/hr
- Flight Training Device $70/hr; Instruction: $75/hr
Description | Charge |
---|---|
Flight Training Charge (AVIA 120) | $705 |
Flight Training Charge (AVIA 171) | $9,000 |
Flight Training Charge (AVIA 181) | $8,365 |
Flight Training Charge (AVIA 372) | $12,560 |
Flight Training Charge (AVIA 377) | $17,625 |
Flight Training Charge (AVIA 474) | $2,650 |
Flight Training Charge (AVIA 475) | $7,890 |
*Flight fees are expected to increase beginning fall 2025.
Any flight simulation or instruction time above the required hours posted will be charged at an hourly rate. Flight training materials and test fees are not included in fee charged. For average fee of flight course please see Aviation.
International Student Fee
Assess: All students who hold nonimmigrant visas.
By: International Student Affairs Office
Amount: $200 fall and spring
Disposition: International Student Fee
Purpose: Defray costs associated with corresponding, reviewing, processing and monitoring the necessary information, paperwork and reporting requirements associated with international students.
Transcript Fee
Assess: All official transcript requests, where transcripts are sent outside the university or requested electronically via Parchment regardless of recipient (on campus of or off).
By: Registrar (also collects)
Amount: $10 plus tax
Disposition: Transcript Fee Fund
Purpose: Pay costs of processing transcript requests.
Challenge by Exam/Examination for Credit
Assess: Students who wish to gain credit for a course by "challenging" by exam or portfolio. Student arranges "challenge" with the department. Payment is made before the "challenge" is started.
By: Testing Center
Amount: $150 per course
Disposition: Challenge by Exam Fee – Distribution later with the budgeted amounts to the instructional department, registrar and to Assessment and Testing.
Purpose: Defray the cost of administering and scoring the challenge.
Vehicle Registration Charge
Assess: All persons who receive permits to park on campus.
By: Parking Services
Disposition: Vehicle Registration Fund
Purpose: Cover all costs of operation, maintenance and repairs, improvements and new construction of streets and parking lots.
Amounts:
- Motorcycle – Annual $37
- Resident or Commuter – Academic Year $165
- Resident or Commuter – Summer $37
- Resident – 12 month $202
Economy Commuter – Academic Year $51
Reserved – Academic Year $304
- Gated – per hour $2
Professional Liability Insurance Charge
Assess: Students enrolled in any internships, practicums or field experience.
By: Administrative Shared Services Center
Amount: $8 per semester for summer 2025*
*Liability insurance expected to increase beginning fall 2025.
Disposition: Student Intern Liability Insurance
Purpose: To cover costs of malpractice insurance premiums.
Medical Laboratory Sciences Professional Liability Insurance Charge
Assess: Students enrolled in MLS 312, 412, 451 (fall only) and MLS 420 (spring only)
By: College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Amount: $14 per year
Disposition: Medical Laboratory Science Student Professional Liability Charge
Purpose: To pay the professional liability insurance premium.
Health and Nutrition Sciences Liability Insurance Charge
Assess: Students in the undergraduate athletic training, nutrition and dietetics and exercise science programs will be assessed liability insurance fee during their junior and senior years. Students taking LMNO-494 (leadership and management of nonprofit organizations). Graduate students in the M.S. athletic training and nutrition and exercise sciences programs will be assessed the liability insurance fee each year.
By: School of Health and Human Sciences
Amount: $15 per year for students in the undergraduate athletic training, nutrition and dietetics and exercise science programs
Disposition: HNS Student Liability Charge
Purpose: To pay the liability insurance premium.
Nursing Liability Insurance Charge
Assess: Students registered for specific sections of NURS 225, 234, 344, 472, 473
By: Nursing
Amount: $14.30
Disposition: Nursing Liability Insurance
Purpose: To pay the nursing malpractice insurance premium.
Pharmacy Professional Liability Insurance Charge
Assess: Students enrolled in PHA 340, 445, 714, 756 (fall only)
By: College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Amount: $14
Disposition: Pharmacy Professional Liability Insurance
Purpose: To pay the pharmacy professional liability insurance premium.
Respiratory Care Clinical Trac Software
Assess: Students registered for RESP 150 (summer only)
By: College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Amount: $80
Disposition: Respiratory Care Clinical Trac Software
Purpose: To cover the cost of respiratory care clinical trac software
Respiratory Care Professional Liability Insurance Charge
Assess: Students registered for RESP 150 (summer only) and RESP 395 (fall only)
By: College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Amount: $14
Disposition: Respiratory Care Professional Liability Insurance
Purpose: To pay the respiratory care professional liability insurance premium.
College Level Examination Program Charge
Assess: Students who wish to gain credit through a College Level Examination Program exam.
By: Testing Center
Amount: $30 per test
Purpose: To defray office costs, including College Level Examination Program-required security cameras, computer updates and staff for registration and monitoring.
Test Proctoring Charge
Assess: Students taking courses from institutions outside of the South Dakota Board of Regents, unless the course is required as part of an approved cooperative agreement.
By: Testing Center
Amount: $15 per exam
Purpose: To cover costs of proctoring exams.
Visit Test Proctoring Services for more information.
Diploma Delivery Charge
Assess: All graduates who wish to have their diploma mailed to them
By: Registrar
Amount:
- $25 printed diploma – USPS First Class delivery
- $60 printed diploma – DHL delivery (recommended for international)
- $25 digital diploma (not printable)
- $10 diploma cover
- 2.5% credit card processing fee
Disposition: Diploma Delivery Charge Fund
Purpose: To defray the costs of mailing and processing diplomas. Students can elect to pick up their diploma and avoid the cost.
Health CPR Certification Charge
Assess: Students taking Health 250 to receive their CPR certification card.
By: College of Education and Human Sciences
Amount: $35
Disposition: CPR certification charge
Purpose: Cover the charges billed by the American Red Cross for CPR certification.
WRGC Comprehensive Exam Charge
Assess: Students submitting requests for oral examinations at the Higher Education Center - West River (HEC-WR).
By: College of Education and Human Sciences (also collects)
Amount: $175
Disposition: Comprehensive Exam Fee
Purpose: To cover the cost of administering the comprehensive oral examinations, including the stipend paid to committee members as determined by university guidelines and for transportation, lodging and meals for graduate faculty representatives and departmental faculty members.
Nursing Simulation Charge
Assess: Students enrolled in NURS 225
By: College of Nursing
Amount: $103.99 for full program (five semesters)
Disposition: Nursing Simulation Charge
Purpose: Cover charge associated with Health Assessment Simulation software
Continuing and Extended Education Unit Program Charge
Assess: Participants in continuing education unit programs who enroll for continuing education units. (Participants are not required to enroll for continuing education units.)
By: Continuing and Distance Education
Amount: $15 per enrollment
Disposition: Continuing Ed Unit Program Charge
Purpose: Covers administrative costs of program approval, registration procedure and CEU certificate
Graduate Validation Charge
Assess: Graduate Students with obsolete course work.
By: Graduate School (also collects)
Amount: $30 per course
Disposition: Grad Course Validation Charge. Distribution 1/2 to Graduate School, 1/2 to responsible instructional department that administers the exam.
Purpose: Defray part of the cost of preparation and administration of the examinations.
Graduate School Graduation Charge
Assess: Graduate Students who apply for graduation.
By: Graduate School (also collects)
Amount: $50 per application per semester.
Disposition: Graduate Course Graduation Charge. 100% refund to each graduate student who graduates during the semester the charge was paid; remainder 100% distribution to Graduate School.
Purpose: Defray administrative cost.
National Student Exchange Charge
Assess: Exchange students
By: Office of Multicultural Affairs and Accessibility
Amount: $250
Disposition: National Student Exchange
Purpose: Cost of processing expense
Field Trip Charge
Assess: Students taking approved course-related field trips.
By: Registrar, per lists submitted by departments and approved by the dean and the vice president for academic affairs.
Amount: Per approved budgets: Field Trip
Disposition: Accounts to be established as approved charges are submitted for assessment.
Purpose: To cover transportation, group admissions and entry fees.
Rapid City Health Service Charge
Assess: Rapid City nursing students enrolled in NURS 228, 334, 344, 434, 472 at the Rapid City site
By: College of Nursing
Amount: $50
Disposition: Student Health Services through South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Purpose: Cost recovery.
ISO Health Insurance Charge
*Required by all international students. Contact International Affairs for current terms.
Health Clinic Laboratory Charge
Assess: Students who have laboratory work performed at the Student Health Clinic.
By: Student Health Clinic (also collects)
Amount: Variable by type of lab test ordered. Direct bills to personal health insurance. Student responsible for copays, deductibles and coinsurance. Any charges not covered by insurance will also be student’s responsibility.
Disposition: Health Clinic Charges
Purpose: Defray cost of the laboratory procedures.
Office Visits and Physical Examinations Charge
Assess: Students who request physical examinations at the Student Health Clinic.
By: Student Health Clinic (also collects)
Amount: Varies. Direct bills to personal health insurance. Student responsible for copays, deductibles and coinsurance. Any charges not covered by insurance will also be student’s responsibility.
Disposition: Health Clinic Charges
Purpose: Defray costs of providing the service.
Health Clinic Immunization Charge
Assess: Students receiving MMR, most other immunizations including foreign travel.
By: Student Health Clinic (also collects); direct bills to personal health insurance.
Amount: Note: Immunization costs vary. Student responsible for c-pays, deductibles and coinsurance. Any charges not covered by insurance will be student’s responsibility.
Disposition: Health Clinic Charges
Purpose: Defray cost of providing service.
Jackrabbit Pharmacy Charge
Assess: Students having prescriptions filled, purchasing prescription medication or requesting to purchase over-the-counter products at Jackrabbit Pharmacy.
By: Jackrabbit Pharmacy (also collects); direct bills to personal health insurance
Amount: Varies
Disposition:
- Jackrabbit Pharmacy – for prescription items.
- Jackrabbit Pharmacy – for OTC items.
Purpose: Defray cost of providing the service.
Health Clinic Allergy Injection Charge
Assess: Student receiving allergy injection at Student Health Clinic.
By: Student Health Clinic (also collects). Direct bills to personal health insurance.
Amount: Varies
Disposition: Health Clinic Charges
Purpose: Defray cost of providing service.
Counseling Services Special Charges
Assess: Students
By: Counseling Services (also collects)
Amount: Varies
Disposition: Counseling Charges
Purpose: Defray costs of providing the service.
Miscellaneous Student Health Charges, Including Minor Procedure, Dressing Charge and Suture Removal Charges
Assess: Student, Faculty/Employees
By: Student Health Clinic
Amount: Charges vary; direct bills to personal health insurance if possible. Student responsible for copays, deductibles and coinsurance. Any charges not covered by insurance will also be student’s responsibility.
Disposition: Health Clinic Charges
Purpose: Defray cost of providing services
Late Payment Charge
Assess: All students who fail to make final fee payment before the close of the final fee payment period.
By: Cashier (also collects)
Amount:
- $10 on accounts with a balance of $50.01 to $750
- $30 on accounts with a balance of $750.01 to $1,500
- $50 on accounts with a balance of $1.500.01 to $4,000
- $75 on accounts with a balance of $4,000.01 to $7,000
- $100 on accounts with a balance greater than $7,000
Disposition: Late Payment Charge
Purpose: Defray added costs of handling late payment.
Return Payment Charge
Assess: Any issuer of a check or electronic payment (e.g., ACH, EFT, eCheck, payment cards, etc.) which is not honored and returned by bank or payment institution.
By: Cashier or department (also collects)
Amount: $30 plus cost of certified letter
Disposition: Finance/Business Activity
Purpose: Defray cost of telephone, correspondence, etc., relating to bad checks.
Placement Services Charge
Assess: Students registering for South Dakota Teacher Job Fair and BIG (business, industry and government) Job Fair
By: Career Planning Services
Amount: $5 to $15 for registration to attend South Dakota Teacher Job Fair and BIG (Business, Industry and Government) Job Fair.
Disposition: Employment Planning Charge Career Planning Service Charge
Purpose:
- Defray cost of preparing, maintaining and sending references.
- Contribute to the hardware replacement and software upgrade.
- Transfer revenue to Job Fair Councils to cover pro-rata cost of Job Fairs.
Career Planning Service Charge
Assess:
- Students and alumni who use the testing and career development services.
- Students seeking special career development and intern/cooperative education referral assistance.
- Students requiring intensive special help with academic or career planning.
- Students seeking reference file assistance.
By: Career Planning Services
Amount: Variable, up to $50 user fees per assessment
Disposition: Career Planning Service Charge Purpose:
- Help defray cost of testing materials.
- Help defray cost of reference materials.
- Contribute to hardware replacement and software upgrade costs.