Your semester billing statement will be available online in the Bill + Payment system in early July for fall and early January for spring. The statement summarizes your semester charges (estimated tuition, fees, and room and board) less your estimated financial aid and calculates the payment due. 

Payment for fall semester August 15 and January 15 for spring semester. Students who have not made financial arrangements or communicated about special arrangements by the payment deadline will be charged a nonrefundable $200 late fee.

The $200 Late Payment Confirmation Fee is applied to accounts that have not met the initial payment deadline each semester, this fee holds the student's enrollment for the upcoming semester.  This is only applied in August or January each year (initial payment deadline for fall and spring semesters).

If you anticipate a problem meeting the payment deadline, please contact our office before the deadline to make special arrangements. Students who do not have their payment arrangements completed by the second day of classes will have their registration cancelled.  Students are able to re-register on a space-available basis after financial arrangements have been confirmed.

Students and Authorized Users can now sign up to receive text alerts when a new bill is issued, a payment plan payment is coming due or an automatic payment is soon to be withdrawn.  In addition, you will also receive confirmation texts for payments received by us on your behalf, but you have to sign up to receive these helpful reminder messages!

Students can sign up by Opting In to Text Messages at Bill + Payment via myPugetSound.  Authorized users must also register for Text Messages and can do so using their log in to Bill + Payment.

You will receive e-mail notification when your monthly billing statement is available to view with the Bill + Payment system. This statement details the activity on your account and the current balance due. We ask that you review these statements to confirm that payments, scholarships, and loans are accurately reflected on your student account.

Your financial aid is expressed as an annual amount. The funds are divided equally and disbursed to your student account at the beginning of each semester. If there are any remaining funds on your student account after charges are paid, you may request a refund.  The funds will be available to you via eRefund through Bill + Payment or via paper check. Refunds cannot be released until the first day of the semester.

How to Request a Refund

Puget Sound prefers to direct deposit refunds electronically to your bank account (available only to students). Please set up an eRefund profile in Bill + Payment in order to receive your direct deposit.  Select the following link for steps to get an eRefund Profile Setup.

Refunds can be requested as soon as a credit balance appears on your account after financial aid has posted (pending financial aid does not create a credit balance).  Refunds cannot be released until the first day of the semester.

Undergraduate Students

• Must submit a request to sfs@pugetsound.edu or by completing a Financial Aid Refund Request Form in the office (located in Jones Hall 019)
• Refund will be processed the first week of class, may take up to 5 business days to receive funds
• Funds will be available to you via eRefund through Bill + Payment or via paper check

Parent PLUS Loan Refunds

• No request form needed, we will start the refund process about 2 weeks into the semester; once a credit is present on the student account
• Paper check is the only way we can refund to parents at this time
• PLUS Loan credits are only issued to the student directly if the parent borrowing the loan indicated it is okay to do so via the PLUS Loan Application 
  • Refunds are delayed to allow for the majority of changes to billing (through 10th day each semester) to finalize
  • This minimizes situations where charges are added to the student account after the credit is sent to the family; which would require payment of the new charge back to the student account
  • If the refund is needed earlier, please email sfs@pugetsound.edu

Graduate Students

• No request form needed, we will start the refund process once a credit is present on the student account (for those borrowing through the federal student loan programs)
• Refunds will be processed the first day of class or, once confirmed on site for those participating in Internships (PT), Affiliations (OT) or Student Teaching (MAT)
• Funds will be available to you via eRefund through Bill + Payment or via paper check

Credit Balance at the end of the Academic Year

At the end of Spring Semester (mid-May) we will issue refunds of financial aid credit balances back to the student or family. Financial Aid from one academic year will not pay a future (or previous) academic year balance outstanding on the student account.

Puget Sound welcomes the following payment options: electronic check, paper check, cash, or credit card. 

Credit cards are subject to a 2.85% service fee, this cannot be waived or refunded.  NOTE:  Debit cards with a credit card logo can be used and will also be subject to the service fee which cannot be waived or refunded under any circumstance. If you want to use a debit card for payment, we recommend submitting payment via electronic check to avoid paying the service fee as it cannot be waived.

Payment for each semester’s balance due must be paid in full by the payment deadline; August 15 for fall and January 15 for spring. Please check the account balance monthly to pay for additional fees that may be added throughout the semester. Accounts with charges not paid by the due date will be charged a $25 late fee each month payment is not received.

Available once fall billing has posted in early July, the payment plan allows for extended payments of the semester balance due across the months of the term. There is an $80 participation fee for using the extended payment plan. Payment plan amounts may be adjusted as account changes occur. The first payment is due August 15 for fall and January 15 for spring, with additional payments due the 15th of each month. A $25 late fee will be charged for monthly installments not paid in full and payments not received by the due date. **Late fee rate is subject to change annually.

NOTE: You must sign up for the payment plan each semester, the presence of a payment plan from a prior semester does not add one to your account for a future semester.

Students or Authorized Users must enroll for payment plans through Bill+Payment.

Parents or students may apply for loan funds to cover all or a portion of the balance due. Loans must be applied for and approved prior to the payment deadline. PLUS borrowers— please add the origination fee to the total loan amount needed. Origination fees are assigned based on disbursement date, please visit the Federal Student Aid website for origination fee percentages.