Tuition

Congress and the Department of Education are commendably focused on ensuring that students and their families have access to federally backed student loans this upcoming academic year. But, even with access to these federally backed student loans (hopefully) and other forms of student aid, a subset of students and their parents still need to take out private student loans to help cover all costs of higher education.

Although many Columbia and Barnard undergraduates cross-enroll in Teachers College courses, the financial mechanisms behind the process are more complicated than the far more common exchange between the undergraduate schools. When one of their students registers for a TC course, Barnard and Columbia add the fee to their own established tuition and later pay Teachers College the difference—a process that works in much the same way for Teachers College students taking courses at other schools.