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Starting immediately all students receiving an Exemption or Waiver at the University of Texas at Tyler , who have not filed the FAFSA, must now complete a Statement of Selective Service Registration Status form. Please submit the form to the Financial Aid Office.
TUITION EXEMPTION & WAIVER PROGAMS
Specific eligibility requirements under these provisions may be obtained from the Student Financial Aid Office or at www.CollegeForTexans.com. Exemption and Waiver classifications include, but may not be limited to, the following:
EXEMPTIONS
Exemptions are a type of financial assistance allowing certain Texas residents to attend a public college or university in Texas without paying tuition, or in some cases, tuition and fees. Requests for exemption of tuition and/or certain fees must be completed prior to the due date of tuition and fees.
To provide college financial assistance to students who once were in foster or other residential care and have been adopted.
To help enable blind and deaf students to attend public colleges or universities in the state of Texas.
To Provide a benefit to the children of persons who have been disabled or killed in the line of duty while serving the community.
To provide an exemption of tuition to eligible students to encourage their parents to continue employment as professional nurse faculty or staff members in the State of Texas.
To provide a partial exemption from the payment of tuition to eligible persons employed as clinical preceptors and to their children in order to encourage the preceptors to continue their employment and induce others to seek such employment in the State of Texas.
to provide tuition and fee assistance to students completing grades 9-12 early or with a significant number of college hours; thus, enabling and encouraging these students to attend college in Texas.
Texas needs more qualified teachers. That's why the State created a program that covers tuition and some fees for Education Aides who enroll in college to become certified Texas teachers.
To encourage persons employed as fire fighters to take college courses designed to help them in their work.
To provide college financial assistance to students who were in foster care when they turned 18 years of age.
To provide an award to students graduating top in their classes in high school.
To provide an education benefit to honorably discharged or separated Texas veterans.
*There has been a change in the citizenship requirement for the Hazlewood Exemption Program. It is no longer required that the applicant be a U.S. citizen. The applicant must be a permanent resident of the state of Texas. The change is effective as of Spring 2008.
To provide an education benefit to the children of persons listed as Missing in Action or Prisoners of War by the U.S. Department of Defense.
To provide an exemption from the payment of tuition to certain members of the Texas National Guard, Texas Air Guard, or the State Guard.
To provide a benefit to persons who were injured in the line of duty while serving as Peace Officers.
To encourage senior citizens to continue their education and keep involved with local colleges and universities.
To encourage senior citizens to continue their education and keep involved with local colleges and universities.
To provide free tuition and fees, free textbooks, and possibly free room and board to certain students whose parent or spouse was killed in the line of duty while employed in certain public service positions.
To help children whose parents received TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) get a start in college.
WAIVERS
Waivers pertain to certain students who are not Texas residents. Requests for waiver of non-resident tuition must be completed prior to the due date of tuition and fees.
This tuition waiver only applies to individuals who are residents of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
To allow a public institution to grant a waiver of nonresident tuition charges to individuals who receive scholarships totaling at least $1,000 awarded by their institution in competition open both to residents and to nonresidents.
In-state Tuition Incentive may be offered by the Economic Development & Tourism division of the Office of the Governor to qualified businesses that are in the decision-making process to relocate or expand their operations into Texas. The incentive allows employees and family members of the qualified businesses to pay the Texas resident tuition rate at a Texas public institution of higher education without first establishing residency. Employees and family members moving to Texas after the incentive designation expires must reside in Texas for a 12-month period before being able to pay the Texas resident tuition rate.
Please select the link above to review all waivers available to members of the United States Military.
To permit an individual employed at least half time by a public institution of higher education as a research or teaching assistant, and his/her spouse and children, to enroll in public institutions in Texas while paying the resident tuition rate.
To provide a waiver of nonresident tuition to teachers and professors employed at least half-time on a regular monthly salary basis by any Texas public college or university. Such waiver is also applicable to the spouse and dependent children of the teacher or professor.
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