  {"id":5937,"date":"2014-06-04T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/offcampus\/?page_id=5937"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:09:30","slug":"finances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/pre-departure-planning\/finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Finances and Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Off-Campus Study Fee<\/strong>:\u00a0 All students pay an off-campus study fee to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ that is 7% of the single fee ($3,310 per semester in 2026-2027). ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ charges this fee to off-set the costs of the support services and resources provided by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ that <span class=\"gmail-il\">students<\/span> continue to have access to while away from the college. This includes the Center for Global Education, other student affairs offices, and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty. More information on ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ tuition, fees, and other costs are available on Student Financial Service&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/costs-and-payment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If you do not receive financial aid from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½<\/span>, you pay your program or university directly. \u00a0You do not pay the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ single fee.<\/strong> \u00a0If you are enrolled with a tuition management system, contact them about temporarily suspending your participation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If you receive ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ financial aid,<\/span> the following web pages describe the financial aid process and policies with regard to off-campus study<\/strong> (The deadline for domestic students to renew FAFSA and College Profile applications is <strong>May 1<\/strong>; international students must provide the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/financial-aid\/international-undergraduates\/\">necessary<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/financial-aid\/international-undergraduates\/\"> information<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by <strong>May 1 <\/strong>if their financial situations have changed) We encourage all financial aid recipients to renew as early as possible.\u00a0 Do not wait for the May 1 deadline.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/before\/bates-financial-aid\/your-bates-aid-and-study-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Financial Aid Process for Study Abroad<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/off-campusstudy\/finances\/policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Financial Aid Policies<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We encourage all students, regardless of aid status, to look into outside grants, especially those offered by their study abroad program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/files\/2026\/07\/Off-Campus-Study-Scholarship-07.2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outside Scholarships and Grants<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Program\/Institution Billing Advice<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>We advise students and families to closely review financial policies and commitments upon application, deposit, and confirmation to any off-campus study program or institution. Each institution will have its own billing arrangements and policies on deposits, confirmations, and withdrawals; etc. Regardless of financial aid status, each individual student is responsible to these institutions financially and to the policies that they outline. At times in the past this has included a deposit paid prior to financial aid disbursement, a loss of a deposit due to a withdrawal, or fees charged that hold up the delivery of an official transcript. The CGE staff are available to help navigate these issues but are not able to change another institution&#8217;s financial policies or decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Off-Campus Study Fee:\u00a0 All students pay an off-campus study fee to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"parent":8898,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"none","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-5937","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12679,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5937\/revisions\/12679"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}