Thank you for visiting the St. Olaf College Student Accounts web page. The primary role of the Student Accounts Office is to create and maintain each student’s comprehensive fee billing statement, and to work with families to settle those accounts as they come due. We can answer specific questions about your account and, as a part of the Business Office, can process credit balance refunds via check or direct deposit.
If the question you have is regarding your financial aid package or any student loans, you should contact the Financial Aid Office. If your question is regarding your tuition bill or making payments on your account, you should contact the Student Accounts Office.
The Student Accounts Office (and many other offices on campus) will communicate with you via your St. Olaf email account. This includes notifying you that statements are available so be sure to check it regularly.
On the Financials tab in SIS, you might see two different balances; one under “Account Detail” and the other under “Bills”. The balance under “Bills” shows the amount you owed at the time that the last bill was generated. The most up-to-date charge is the one under “Account Detail” because it shows if there were any charges added to your account after the last bill was generated.
Fall semester bills are sent out in early July and payments are due August 1. Spring semester bills are sent out in early January and payments are due February 1. A 0.5% finance charge will be assessed monthly on unpaid accounts.
If you would like your parent or guardian to have access to your tuition statements, and to be able to make payments online, you can add them in Permissions page. To do this, you will need to sign into the SIS and click on the Permissions link. Enter the relevant email addresses (one at a time if the email address is not already in here) and authorize viewing of selected information to that address. Click the green Grant Access button to grant access to the selected options for that email address. An email will then be sent to that address letting them know that they now have access to this information. If you need further assistance please visit the Parent Access page.
If you receive your bill in July and your financial aid is not showing up, you should contact the Financial Aid Office. It’s possible that your aid package hasn’t been finalized or that there is paperwork that you need to complete for the funds to show up on your account.
Yes, students can put their student work earnings towards their tuition account by updating their preferences in Oracle. You also have the option to have the funds deposited directly into a checking or savings account. Either of these payment methods can be changed at any point during the school year.
Because your student work award is not guaranteed we recommend that students pay their balance in full and then use any work earning that are earned to pay for the following semester. If you are not able to pay in full, finance charges accrue on the unpaid balance on a monthly basis.
Students are paid for the hours they work each pay period and must schedule the appropriate number of hours per week to earn their full work awards (e.g. 10 hours/week to earn approximately $2,700 for the year). Students who need assistance in finding more hours to earn their work award should contact the Human Resources department.
There may be additional charges after your initial fee statement is emailed in July. These include, but are not limited to: bookstore charges, music lessons, parking tickets, fines, and January term program fees.
Students may purchase books online or in the bookstore and use credit cards, cash, Ole dollars, or checks to pay for books. Textbooks may also be charged to your tuition account. If books are charged to a student’s account, your options to pay for them are the same as the options to pay for tuition charges; out of pocket payments, payment plan, and financial aid.
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