Cancellation & Refund Policy

Institutions that the U. S. Department of Education has approved for eligibility for Title IV Student Financial Aid must comply with the federal regulations governing institutional refunds. The following applies in other instances:

A. Each institution must maintain a cancellation and refund policy that must provide a full refund of monies paid by a student if:

1. The student cancels the enrollment agreement or contract within seventy-two hours (until midnight of the third day excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) after the enrollment contract is signed by the prospective student;
2. The applicant is not accepted by the institution.
3. For home study and combination home study/resident institutions, if lessons are distributed before the applicant is accepted by the institution or before the expiration of the seventy-two-hour cancellation period has expired, and the applicant is not accepted or cancels the contract within the cancellation period, a full refund will be made, even if a lesson (or lessons) have been completed.

B. The institutional refund policy shall provide for a pro rata refund calculation, except that this paragraph will not apply for any student whose date of withdrawal is after the sixty percent point (in time) in the period of enrollment for which the student has been charged.

1. Pro rata refund is a refund for a student attending the institution for the first time of not less than that portion of the tuition, fees, room and board, and other charges assessed the student equal to the portion of the period of enrollment for which the student has been charged that remains on the last day of attendance by the student, rounded downward to the nearest ten percent of that period, less any unpaid charges owed for the period of enrollment for which the student has been charged, and less an administrative fee not to exceed one hundred dollars.
2. The portion of the period of enrollment for which the institution charged that remains shall be determined:
(a) in the case of a program that is measured in credit hours, by dividing the total number of weeks comprising the period of enrollment for which the student has been charged into the number of weeks remaining in that period as of the last recorded day of attendance by the student;
(b) in the case of a program that is measured in clock hours, by dividing the total number of clock hours comprising the period of enrollment for which the student has been charged into the number of clock hours remaining to be completed by the student in that period as of the last recorded day of attendance by the student; and
(c) in the case of a correspondence program, by dividing the total number of lessons comprising the period of enrollment for which the institution has charged into the total number of such lessons not submitted by the student.
3. After the student's first period of enrollment, a refund as provided in this section, except for room and board, must be made for students who withdraw in subsequent period(s) of enrollment due to mitigating circumstances. Mitigating circumstances are those that directly prohibit pursuit of a program and which are beyond the student's control: serious illness of the student, death in the student's immediate family, or active duty military service, including active duty for training.
4. After expiration of the seventy-two-hour cancellation privilege, if the student does not attend, not more than one hundred dollars shall be retained by the institution.
5. All efforts will be made to refund prepaid amounts for books, supplies and other charges unless the student has consumed or used those items and they can no longer be used or sold to new students, or returned by the institution to the supplier as "new" merchandise.
6. Refunds shall be paid within forty days after the effective date of termination.

C. The refund policy for correspondence programs must provide that:

1. The effective date of termination for refund purposes will be the earliest of the following:
(a) the date of notification to the student if the student is terminated by the institution;
(b) the date of receipt of notice from the student; or
(c) the end of the sixth calendar month following the month in which the student's last lesson assignment was received unless notification has been received from the student that the student wishes to remain enrolled. (In this event, the written notice from the student will be maintained in the student's permanent file.)
2. If tuition is collected before any lessons have been completed ,and if, after expiration of the seventy-two-hour cancellation privilege, the student fails to begin the program, no more than one hundred dollars shall be retained by the institution.

D. An the following attempts: institution is considered to have made a good faith effort to make a refund if the student's file contains evidence of the following attempts:
1. Certified mail to the student's last known address;
2. Certified mail to the student's permanent address; and
3. Certified mail to the address of the student's parent or listed next of kin if different from the permanent address.

E. For programs consisting of a combination of home study lessons and resident training, not more than one hundred dollars will be retained by the institution for those students who fail to enter resident training.

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