TBP Frequently Asked Questions
Eligibility & Participation
- graduate teaching assistant (TA)
- graduate research assistant (RA)
- Graduate Traineeship (TR)
- graduate fellow (GF)
You must satisfy all eligibility requirements (e.g., registration hours, financial support, service guidelines, etc. as set out in the TBP Guidelines).
Check with your departmental tuition benefit coordinator or director of graduate studies to verify your eligibility and to see whether you were added to the department’s TBP web list.
The departmental TBP coordinator submits this list at the beginning of the semester of participation. If your name is not on this list for the semester(s) in question, you cannot participate in the TBP for that term(s).
You may be eligible to participate in the TBP if each semester you
- Meet the minimum funding requirement via appropriate assistantship, fellowship, or traineeship. Information on the minimum support requirements can be found on our website at minimum support requirements;
- are a matriculated graduate student registered as full time. TBP covers up to 12 credits hours in the Fall/Spring semesters, and up to 6 during the summer
- are a student in good standing, e.g., cumulative GPA of 3.0;
- and have an eligible TBP work assignment not greater than 20 hours weekly (0.5 FTE).
It is suggested that domestic nonresident students consider applying for Utah residency upon completion of 40 graduate level semester credit hours at the University of Utah. Visit the Admissions Office website for details on how to qualify and how to apply for residency reclassifications.
Contact the tuition benefit coordinator in your home department.
You must be entered on your home department’s TBP web list (i.e., the department that accepted you for graduate study as a degree-seeking student).
No, it is not required. However, it is highly suggested that out-of-state students apply for Utah residency upon completion of 40 graduate level semester credits hours at the University of Utah.
Visit the Admissions Office website for details on how to qualify and how to apply for residency reclassifications.
Payment
No, repeat courses are excluded from Tuition Benefit coverage.
The course can count toward your total minimum course registration, but the program will not pay the tuition for the repeated course.
Undergraduate courses count toward the minimum registration requirement but do not qualify for a TBP credit.
Graduate students taking graduate courses who
- satisfy a supported TBP graduate student eligible category/s,
- register full-time for courses,
- and comply with the TBP service requirements
will have general graduate tuition and mandatory fees paid at the qualifying TBP percentage for graduate courses.
Students are responsible for payment of tuition for
- hours over 12 credits in the Fall/Spring, or 6 in the Summer,
- undergraduate hours,
- audit, contract, activity, or CR/NC courses,
- special fees,
- and/or differential tuition.
Nonresident students on tuition benefit will still receive the non-resident waiver for that portion of their tuition.
No. The TBP covers general graduate tuition and mandatory (building, activity, computer, etc.) fees for the maximum 12 credit hours.
Check your student account in Campus Information Services.
Eligible students will receive a conditional tuition credit within six or seven days after the semester begins. Conditional processing cannot begin until your home department completes your tuition benefit entry via the appropriate portal. Please contact your department in the event of any tuition benefit disbursement delay.
Students must pay tuition and fees that do not qualify for the TBP (i.e., graduate credits above the 12 TBP eligible hours, undergraduate, contract, audited, or activity courses, differential tuition beyond the general graduate tuition, etc).
Contact the tuition benefit coordinator in your home department.
Course Registration
The student is responsible to register and to be continuously registered as full-time throughout the semester.
To be eligible to participate in the TBP, students must be registered as full-time before the semester’s 15th day of classes.
After the 15th class day, students not registered as full-time cannot participate in the TBP for that semester.
Students adding and/or dropping credit hours after the last official day to add/drop classes are responsible for paying their tuition.
A student must be registered by the 15th day of the term or eligibility for that semester is foregone.
Each student is assigned a Student ID number by Graduate Admissions when accepted for graduate study at the University of Utah. By using this ID, a student can register for classes via the Internet from anywhere in the world. Therefore, a student should be able to be registered prior to the 15th day of the semester. A student must also satisfy all other eligibility criteria for TBP participation as well.