Tuition & Financial Assistance

Tuition

Fall and Spring Audit (noncredit) 10-week course: $600
Summer Audit (noncredit) Course: $600
1.0 college credit 10-week course (junior and seniors ages 15-18 only): $1,848

Tuition does not include supplies. Students provide their own supplies and will receive a material list on the first day of class. Supplies vary by class and can range from $50–$200.

Financial assistance is available in the form of limited need-based financial aid, scholarship opportunities, and employee tuition remission. 

Grace and Walter Byron Smith Scholarship 

The Smith Scholarship covers 100 percent of tuition for any non-credit (audit) ECP course taken in fall, spring, or summer, and is awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to students living in Illinois. To apply, students will need to complete the ECP Smith Scholarship Application Form. Students do not need to provide financial documentation or work samples. Applications for spring are currently filled. We will be taking applications for summer in mid-December! 

Need-Based Financial Aid 

Limited need-based financial aid is available for Early College Program courses. Limited need-based financial aid is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants must select “Yes” when asked if they are applying for need-based financial aid at the time of registration online. Following registration, students will be emailed a link to DocuSign, a secure server, where they must upload a copy of the top two pages of their family’s most recent year’s federal tax form 1040. Applications open July 15 and close at 11:59 p.m. on September 9.     

Please note: your student’s need-based financial aid application will not be considered complete until the federal tax form 1040 is received in DocuSign. Need-based financial aid is available to US residents only. 

All new Continuing Studies Tuition Remission requests must be submitted by creating a Jira Tuition Remission Form and attaching a completed Early College Program registration form at the time of Jira submission. Please do not email your forms to the Continuing Studies Enrollment team. They must be uploaded in Jira to be considered a complete request. 

Step 1: Log into the Jira Tuition Remission Form using your ARTIC SSO credentials (artic Gmail). You must be logged into VPN if you are offsite. Fill in the fields. Some questions are dynamic based on your responses. All fields are required unless noted as optional. Under the "Will Register for:" section, be sure to select Continuing Studies.

Step 2: Attach a completed required Early College Program registration form to your Jira request. Do not email your registration form to the CS Enrollment Team, they must be attached to your Jira request. 

Step 3: Select "create" at the bottom of the form to submit it for review.

Step 4: We will contact you via a Jira comment four weeks out from the start date of the course to let you know if there is space for us to move the enrollment forward. If there is no space at that time, we will contact you via a Jira comment to find an alternative course.

More information about the Continuing Studies Employee Tuition Remission enrollment process can be found here. Questions regarding eligibility should be directed to Human Resources at ask_hr@saic.edu.

Third-party billing is when a company or government/outside agency has established special billing arrangements to cover tuition and/or fees for students that it sponsors. Continuing Studies must receive an authorization from the sponsoring agency before third-party billing can be processed. All billing authorizations—which may be a letter, purchase order, or voucher—must be on the official agency letterhead and signed by an officer of the organization.

Payment by the sponsor must be made directly to Continuing Studies; agreements where payments are sent to the student cannot be honored. All authorizations must include the term that the authorization is in effect. Continuing Studies cannot accommodate any restrictions or contingencies on the authorization. For instance, if the agency requires transcript information before payment, Continuing Studies cannot authorize third-party billing.

All sponsored students are required to complete an Early College Program registration form and Tuition Repayment Agreement (promissory note) in order to be registered for the class and to initiate third-party billing. In the event of nonpayment or partial payment by the third-party agency, the student will be charged for the unpaid amount. Third parties are invoiced after the class is confirmed to run. Payments must be made within 30 days of billing. If payment is not received within 30 days, the agency and the student will be notified, and the student will be billed for the unpaid amount as authorized on the Tuition Repayment Agreement. Any charges that are not paid by the sponsor are billed to the student. Complete a copy of the Tuition Repayment Agreement and email it to cs@saic.edu.

Contact Us

Continuing Studies staff members are available Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. CT at 312.629.6170 or cs@saic.edu to answer your questions. We are here to help!