Description of Fees

General University Fee

• Fee supports student related programs and institutional services of those programs. These programs are, by definition, ancillary to the educational mission of the University and must generate a portion of their operating revenue through fees for services or sales charges. GUF provides support for such programs as Student Health Services, Athletics & Recreational Services, One Card Office, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, Student Activities and Student Union, and the Off Campus Student Services Office.

Infrastructure Maintenance Fee (IMF)

• Fee supports debt service associated with South Campus residence halls and partially supports Operating and Maintenance (O&M) costs related to UCONN 2000 construction projects as well as preventive and deferred maintenance.

Graduate Matriculation Fee

• Each degree-seeking student under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School pays a Graduate Matriculation Fee. This fee is payable regardless of the credit load or the campus of registration, and applies to students registering for Continuing Registration or other zero-credit courses as well. Graduate students who enter graduate school with more than six credits of advanced course work and apply it to their degree requirements are responsible for payment of the Graduate Matriculation Fee for those semester(s) in which the excess non-degree work was taken, unless the fee is waived by the Dean of the Graduate School.

Graduate Student Activity Fee

A non-refundable fee is charged each semester to all students taking courses at the Storrs campus. The proceeds from this fee are used by the Graduate Student Senate for its programs for graduate student welfare and recreation.

Student Union Building Fee

Fee supports the additional financing that was needed to fully fund the Student Union renovation and expansion project. The building provides enhanced meeting room space for student organizations, programming space for student activities and events, food service options, and the addition of a multi-purpose theater. In addition, the building provides space for all of the cultural centers in a single location, as well as the other critical student services.

Transit Fee

Fee supports the campus shuttle bus service including bus maintenance, bus drivers and administrative support.

Continuous Registration

• Students not registering with the University for credit-bearing course work or other curricular of fering in a given semester are required to maintain a continuing registration in the Graduate School by registering for one of the Graduate School's zero-credit Continuing Registration courses. These courses include GRAD 398 for nonthesis master's degree students, GRAD 399 for thesis master's degree students, GRAD 498 for doctoral students not yet engaged in dissertation research or writing, and GRAD 499 for doctoral students currently engaged in disser tation research or writing.

Reinstatement Fee

• Graduate School regulations require registration in each semester by all graduate degree program students. (See "Continuing Registration.") Students at the Storrs campus, at the Avery Point regional campus, or at the Health Center in Farmington who fail to complete initial course registration by the end of the tenth day of classes of any semester will be dropped from active status and will be required to pay a reinstatement fee.

Student Activity Fee

• 1. Student Government Fee

     A majority of the funds collected are allocated to the student organizations (including the yearbook) and area residence hall councils by the Undergraduate Student Government. The Fee also supports student life through advocacy and outreach programs, and it is used to train current and up-and-coming leaders through annual attendance at student government conferences.
     For Storrs-based students, the following activities are supported through this fee:

  2. Student Newspaper Fee

     Fee supports the production (in print and online) of the student run Daily Campus newspaper. The newspaper provides students with the opportunity to experience, first hand, all aspects of the newspaper industry.

  3. Student Union (SUBOG) Fee

  Fee supports the programming efforts of the Student Union Board of Governors. Their mission is to enhance the educational, social, cultural and recreational environment at the University.

WHUS Fee

Fee supports the student run radio station which broadcasts information and entertainment programming to the Storrs area. The radio station provides a publicly accessible learning environment in which interested students may participate in order to gain knowledge and experience in various aspects of radio broadcasting. The funds support programs and activities, promotions and advertising, sports, news, training, station development and wages.

UCONN TV Fee

Fee supports the student run television station which provides students the opportunity, training and facilities to produce and broadcast television programming. The funds support equipment, supplies, student wages and travel expenses for industry conferences.