Billing and Payments

Tuition

Degree-seeking students (per credit hour)                                                                           $     480.00
Tuition for graduate students (per credit hour)                                                                    $      140.00

Student Fees

Fall and Spring General Student fee (per semester)                                                      $      100.00
Fall and Spring Student Life fee (per semester)                                                                  $         25.00
Summer Student fee (per semester)                                                                                             $        75.00

Course Fees

Audit fee (per credit hour)                                                                                                                        $       40.00
Immersion Course fee, international trip, level II (per semester)                          $ 1,700.00
Immersion Course fee, international trip, level I (per semester)                            $    900.00
Immersion Course fee, domestic trip (per semester)                                                    $    550.00
Outside CPE Program Transfer fee (per credit hour)                                                     $    100.00
DMin Project or Project Proposal Continuation fee                                                         $     150.00

Other Student Fees

Application fee                                                                                                                                                   $       60.00
Background check fee                                                                                                                               $       35.00
Change of enrollment fee                                                                                                                        $        25.00
Change of degree program                                                                                                                   $        25.00
Fee for incomplete (per course, filed by deadline)                                                            $        25.00
Fee for incomplete (per course, filed after deadline)                                                       $       40.00
Extension of incomplete (per course)                                                                                          $       40.00
Master’s theses/DMin project reports administrative fee                                         $        75.00
Graduation fee                                                                                                                                                    $     100.00
Videoconference fee (per session)                                                                                                 $        25.00

Depending on when you withdraw from a course, you may be eligible for a full or partial refund for that course.  Fees are only refunded if the course is withdrawn from within the first two weeks in the fall and spring or first day in the summer. Below is our tuition refund schedule.

Within the first 6 contact hours of the course               100%
Within the first 9 contact hours of the course                  80%
Within the first 12 contact hours of the course                50%
Beyond the first 12 contact hours of the course               0%

All current semester payments, tuition, and fee charges will be cancelled for students who must withdraw for military service (see “Military Service” under Academic Policies). Different policies may apply to payments received from state and federal sources, as per applicable regulation.

PTS has partnered with a local bookstore that we use as the primary provider of textbooks. We have a program in place that allows all our degree-seeking students to receive their required textbooks at no charge to them. When your class schedule is finalized, you will submit a request for your textbooks, and the Business Office will get your books ordered. For the Spring 2025 semester, we are past the deadline to request your textbooks, but we are still accepting reimbursement requests. To request reimbursement for your required textbooks for this semester, please fill out the Textbook Reimbursement Request Form.

Your bill is viewable through your PTS student portal under Financial>Billing.

Payments can be made in several different ways. The most convenient way to make a payment is through your student portal under Financial>Transact Billing and Payments. E-check, most major credit cards and 529 plans are accepted. You can also mail a check to the following address:

Phillips Theological Seminary
Attn: Bursar
901 North Mingo Road
Tulsa, OK 74116

Cash payments can also be made in person in the Business Office.

Payment plans are set up through the student portal under Financial>Transact Billing and Payments. These are available for the fall and spring semesters and are designed to allow your account to be paid in full by the end of the current term. You may only have one active payment plan at a time.

Yes. Within your student portal under Financial>Transact Billing and Payments, you can invite others to be a payer on your account.

After the refund period ends, disbursement occurs. During this time, all charges and financial aid are finalized on your account. If you have more payments, credits, or financial aid on your account than the amount of your tuition and fees, the remaining credit balance will be refund to you via direct deposit.  Your direct deposit can be set up through your student portal under Financial>Transact Billing and Payments>My account.

If a payment plan is not set up for your account, payment is due in full by the end of the first day of class. If your account still has an outstanding balance and no payment plan is in place before the add period for the next semester, a hold will be placed on your account. This hold prevents registering for future classes, and receiving your diploma until your account is paid in full.

At the close of each semester, all accounts are evaluated and any accounts that have an outstanding balance from a previous semester with no active payment plan in place are sent to collections. A billing hold will remain on the account until it is paid in full. This hold prevents registering for future classes and receiving a diploma. If the account is not paid in full within 5 years of the original charge date, the student will not be eligible to register for future courses, receive a transcript, or receive a diploma for a period of 10 years.

If you are experiencing a hardship, we have resources to help pay off your student account, including an Emergency Scholarship and Financial Need Scholarship. For more information, please see the financial aid page of the PTS website.

Michelle Harper
Assistant Vice President for Finance
(918) 270-6468
bursar@ptstuls.edu

Tammye Jurena
Executive Assistant to the Business Office
(918) 270-6406
tammye.jurena@ptstulsa.edu

You can give permission to other people to access their account information by filling out the FERPA waiver form. You can choose for what time period and what type of information you want to share. You can also revoke this permission at any time.

PTS has recently partnered with GradGuard to offer tuition insurance to students at a discounted rate to help you protect your investment in your seminary education. This insurance protects you against financial loss if you have to withdraw from PTS due to a covered illness, injury, mental health condition, or loss of income.

Starting with the Fall 2024 semester, PTS is offering to reimburse degree seeking students the cost of your tuition insurance, up to the $1,500 level of coverage, or $18. What this means is that you could have $1,500 of tuition insurance at no cost to you.

If you choose to sign up for tuition insurance, you can sign up straight from your student portal or from GradGuard.com before the end of the add/drop period. After signing up, degree seeking students can request reimbursement from PTS.

Once we have received your information and confirmed your coverage with GradGuard, we will send your reimbursement via your preferred reimbursement method at the end of the registration period, which is typically two weeks after the first day of class.

If you have any questions regarding reimbursement for this service, please contact the business office.  If you have any questions regarding coverage, please reach out to GradGuard at 866-985-7598 or gradguard.com.