Most students applying for admission to SIU Carbondale normally must pay an application fee at the time of application.1
First-time students who register for on-campus credit will be charged a one-time ID card fee. Students get their ID card from the ID Card Office in the Student Center. If needed later, a replacement ID card will cost an additional amount.
Students enrolled in certain programs (majors) may have fees that are charged as a condition of being enrolled in such a program. For example, program-specific technology fees are charged to majors in certain schools or colleges.2,3
Incoming first-time and transfer undergraduate degree-seeking on-campus students – as well as incoming on-campus international graduate students – are assessed a one-time $150 Matriculation Fee.4 This fee covers the costs associated with their orientation to campus.5
Certain courses have course-specific fees that are charged as a condition of enrollment in such a course. Such course-specific fees are set by the departments/schools (and are subject to change with each new academic year).6 Course-specific fees are noted by course in the online Schedule of Classes search results.7 Many of them are also noted in the course descriptions within the undergraduate or graduate catalogs.
On-campus students living in University Housing will pay room and board charges in addition to tuition and mandatory student fees.8
Students first registering for full-term classes after the advance registration period has ended will be assessed a $15 late registration fee, as will students first registering for shorter-than-full-term classes after the first day of the course. The fee is non-refundable and cannot be waived unless it is clearly shown that faculty or administrative action caused the late registration. (Registration in graduate courses 599, 600, 601, or 699 shall be exempt from this fee.)
Undergraduate, graduate, and Law students applying to graduate are assessed a graduation application fee at the time of application.9
Students may also incur charges for excess breakage of equipment used in a course, as well as for library fines. There is also a charge for students to order official copies of their academic transcript.
Finally, students enrolling in online courses may be required to take proctored exams. (A proctor's role is to verify the identity of the student taking the exam and to supervise the exam to ensure that the instructions specified by the instructor are carried out.) If the student uses an off-campus testing center for their proctored exams, the student will be responsible to pay any proctoring fees that are set by that testing center.10
1 The normal application fee is, for example, $40 for undergraduate students and $65 for graduate students.
2 Technology fee amounts: $6 per credit hour up to 12 credit hours in Fall and Spring (up to 6 credit hours in Summer) for undergraduate and graduate majors in the College of Business and Analytics (unless they are paying the differential tuition surcharge); $10 per credit hour up to 12 credit hours in Fall and Spring (up to 6 credit hours in Summer) for undergraduate and graduate majors in the School of Art and Design; $90 per term in Fall, Spring, and Summer for MD students in the School of Medicine (increasing to $142.50 per Fall and Spring [but no longer charged in Summer] effective Fall 2025).
3 Technology fee amount: $4.58 per credit hour up to 12 credit hours in Fall and Spring for undergraduate majors coded in the former College of Agricultual Sciences, those coded in the new School of Agricultural Sciences, and, effective Fall 2022, those coded in the new College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences.
4 As of Spring 2014, these Matriculation Fees are assessed for the term in which the student registers for their fourth on-campus credit hour within their first year of enrollment.
5 More information about the various orientation opportunities is available from New Student Orientation. More information about international student orientation opportunities is available here.
6 Course-specific fees may be described on a student's bill as course fees, lab fees, studio fees, equipment fees, field trip fees, transportation fees, etc. The flight training charges on many of the AF courses for students in the Aviation Flight program are also considered to be course-specific fees. Any course-specific fees exceeding $200 per course require explicit approval by the SIU Board of Trustees.
7 To see what a course-specific fee is within the online Schedule of Classes search results, click on the course title of the desired section. That will pop open a box of "class details" for that section. That box will have a number of tabs along its left edge. The "Fees" tab would show the course-specific fee, if one exists.
8 Room and board charges for University Housing are noted here.
9 The graduation application fee for an application submitted by the published deadline – normally the Friday of Week 4 in Fall/Spring (Week 2 in Summer) – is $50. If a late application is accepted, it will be assessed a late application fee of an additional $25.
10 Such proctoring fees must be paid directly to the testing center.
