2021-22 Tuition and Fees

Some programs include required courses that do not have related credits (commonly referred to as “zero-unit courses”).  These zero-unit courses have a range of tuition costs associated with them.

For information on financial aid, please contact the Financial Aid Office at (415) 575-6122 or at finaid@ciis.edu. Tuition and fees are subject to change each semester.

Tuition and fees are subject to change each semester.

Fees—All Fees Are Nonrefundable

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Payment Policies

Payment Methods

CIIS accepts payments by cash, check, money order (made out to “CIIS”), or credit card (VISA and MasterCard). To make a payment online, log on to MyCIIS at https://my.ciis.edu and click the “eBiz” tab to view the available balance on your student account. After viewing the balance click the “eBiz Payment Portal” blue button to proceed with making a payment towards the tuition and fees for the given semester.

Payment Deadlines

Tuition and fees are charged upon registration and varies depending on the current academic semester. All students should refer to the Academic Calendar for when tuition is due for a given semester at https://www.ciis.edu/academics/academic-calendar .

Financial aid recipients whose aid covers only a portion of the total charges must pay the balance by the tuition payment deadline see below for tuition deadline.

Tuition Payment Deadline

School of Professional Psychology and Health and School of Consciousness and Transformation

School of Undergraduate Studies and American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

CIIS expects all students to regularly monitor their tuition and fee charges and pay them by tuition payment deadline before the start of each term.

Semester Begins

School of Professional Psychology and Health and School of Consciousness and Transformation

School of Undergraduate Studies and American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Deferred Payment Plan

The Deferred Payment Plan allows students to pay their total semester charges in equal installments. A $50 fee is charged for this service. To sign-up for the Deferred Payment Plan, you’ll need to log on to MyCIIS at https://my.ciis.edu and click the “eBiz” tab and complete Deferred Payment Plan Form.

School of Professional Psychology and Health and School of Consciousness and Transformation

School of Undergraduate Studies and American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

A $50 fee is added to the student’s account each time an installment is not paid by its due date. The Deferred Payment Plan is not available to registrants who are not admitted to a CIIS academic program (i.e., Special Students).

Late Payment Fees

The following late payment fees are applied to students who have an outstanding balance on the following dates:

School of Professional Psychology and Health and School of Consciousness and Transformation

School of Undergraduate Studies and American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Students receiving financial aid or who have signed up for the Deferred Payment Plan are exempt from late payment fees.

Refund Deadlines

One hundred percent of a course’s tuition charge is reversed if it is withdrawn from on or before the Add/Drop Deadline. Seventy-five percent is reversed if it is withdrawn from through the third week of the semester. Fifty percent is reversed if it is withdrawn from through the seventh week (the fifth week for summer). No percentage is reversed for courses withdrawn from after the seventh week (the fifth week for summer). Refer to the “Academic Calendar” for the specific deadlines. These deadlines apply regardless of the actual start and end dates of the course.

For students who received any form of federal financial aid, the amount that will be returned to the financial aid programs is determined by federal guidelines and may be different than the amount calculated by CIIS’s refund policy. Contact the Financial Aid Office for more information about this calculation.

All fees are nonrefundable. The only exception is when the student has dropped all of their courses by the Drop Deadline, in which case the Technology Fee and the Wellness Fees are discharged. If it’s the first semester of the student’s program, the Registration Fee is also discharged.

Refunds Granted After Refund Deadlines—Financial Petition Process

Students who believe they have extenuating circumstances warranting a credit, refund, or adjustment of tuition and/or fees may present a petition to the Financial Petition Committee (FPC). The petition form is available from the Registrar’s Office on MyCIIS.

The FPC considers a request only if all of the following are in place: (1) The student experienced a serious extenuating circumstance beyond his or her control; and (2) the student includes an explanation of this circumstance along with supporting documentation—this documentation becomes the property of CIIS and will not be returned; and (3) if petitioning to receive a reversal of a tuition charge, the associated course has been dropped or withdrawn from; and (4) the petition is submitted within 90 calendar days of the last day of the semester in which the charge was incurred.

The petition and its attachments will remain confidential and be seen only by members of the FPC, which is composed of representatives from the following offices: Academic Affairs, Dean of Students, Registrar, Business, and Financial Aid. The FPC may, with the petitioner’s permission, consult with any faculty, staff, students, or other parties who may have relevant information. The FPC may request additional supporting materials from the student or, if the student consents, from other parties. The student is not present when the FPC meets. The FPC issues its decision within 30 calendar days of receiving all documentation, informs the student and any University personnel who need to take action to implement the decision, and places documentation of the petition and the decision in the student’s file maintained in the Registrar’s Office.

The decision of the FPC is final. Reconsideration is granted only if significant information not contained in the original petition becomes available. Students do, however, have the option of seeking further consideration of a petition through the CIIS General Student Complaint Procedure.

Questions

Please contact the Business Office for more information at 415.575.6132 or by email at businessoffice@ciis.edu.

Holds

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Incompletes: Policies Regarding Faculty Granting Incompletes

Students anticipating being unable to complete a course may request permission from the instructor to receive an I (Incomplete) grade; students who have not completed the work required for a course are not to be given a passing grade in the course without completing the required work. CIIS courses are expected to be organized in a way that allows work to be completed during the semester when the course is being offered. Below are the policies related to incomplete grades:

1. Permission to be given an I grade is given only in the following circumstances:

   1. medical reasons documented by a health-care professional;

   2. a family emergency verified with supporting documentation; or

   3. decision by faculty member based on exceptional pedagogical reasons.

2. The instructor has the right to refuse to grant an I grade.

3. The Registrar’s Office does not record an I grade without receiving an “Incomplete Grade Request” form signed by the student and the instructor by the grade submission deadline. This form stipulates what coursework is remaining and its due date.

4. The instructor, not the student, determines the deadline for the remaining coursework. This deadline cannot exceed two semesters (including summer) from the last day of the semester in which the course took place and can be earlier. (For example, if the course is in Fall 2016, the student has until the last day of the Summer 2017 semester to submit the work unless the instructor specifies an earlier deadline.) The maximum deadline for an Incomplete given for exceptional pedagogical reasons is one semester. This deadline is not extended for students who are on a leave of absence, become inactive, or refrain from registering for any semester while the work remains outstanding.

5. If the student does not submit the coursework by this deadline, the I grade converts to an IN (Permanent Incomplete). An IN is irreversible.

6. Students may not graduate with an I grade on their record even in an elective course. Students may graduate with an IN grade on their record, provided that if the IN was for a required course, the student later successfully repeated the course.

7. The submission of an I grade by an instructor does not imply that that instructor will be a CIIS employee in a subsequent semester. It is the student’s responsibility to maintain current contact information for this instructor.

8. Students may not sit in on a subsequent semester’s offering of the same course in order to make up the coursework.

9. When submitting the remaining coursework, the student must include a signed “Grade Change” form. The instructor uses this form to notify the Registrar’s Office of the final grade