Fee Glossary

Mandatory Fees

Academic Excellence Fee

This fee is assessed to promote academic excellence by enhancing instructional programs and includes the operation of instructional facilities to serve students and support services of the academic enterprise.

Building Use Fee

This fee is used to help construct, acquire, repair, maintain, operate, or improve the facilities and physical infrastructure of the university.

General Activity Fee

This fee is assessed to students to fund student government activities, student activities, and student football tickets to LSU football games.

Nonresident Fee

A charge in addition to tuition and required fees assessed to students who are classified as nonresidents of Louisiana for fee assessment purposes.

Operational Fee

This fee is assessed to offset a portion of mandatory cost increases for contributions the university makes to retirement systems, employee health insurance, classified merit increases, and inflation.

Safety and Security Fee

A non-refundable fee to support safety, security, and transportation improvements on and around campus such as parking lot maintenance, increased/enhanced lighting of pathways, parking lots and other public areas of campus, provision for new or extended video surveillance of walkways and other public areas, enhanced security service, and addition of new directional campus signage.

Student Excellence Fee

This fee is intended for the recruiting and retention of key faculty and support for instruction and support services of the university.

Student Health Services Fee

This fee is assessed to all students to support basic medical, counseling and health promotions services, and programs for our students.

Student Housing Fee

This fee is for the planning, financing, design, construction, operation, maintenance, renewal and replacement, equipping, and related uses of Student Housing programs.

Technology Fee

This fee is assessed for the purposes of implementing, replacing, improving, and expanding technologies to benefit student life and learning. It includes but is not limited to instructional and laboratory equipment and the networking and supporting of computer and telecommunications infrastructure necessary to support these activities.

Tuition

A charge to students for instructional services that may be charged per term, per course, or per credit.

 

Additional Fees

ACLS
The fees associated with Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification and training.

Additional SGA
This fee is assessed to students to fund additional Student Government Association activities.

ASDA
The cost associated with the annual membership fee for the American Student Dental Association, a branch of the American Dental Association.

BCLS
The fees associated with Basic Cardiac Life Support certification and training.

Bookstore Purchase
The cost of required materials and supplies purchased through the campus bookstore for dental programs.

Cap & Gown Fee
The cost associated with the purchase of graduation regalia.

Dental Hygiene Laptop
The cost associated with purchasing the program-required laptop.

Dental Laptop
The cost associated with purchasing the program-required laptop.

Dental Supply
This fee is assessed to all dental students per academic year in the Doctor of Dental Surgery program, Dental Hygiene program, and the Dental Laboratory program.

Department Exam Fee
This fee is used to purchase multiple end-of-course/clerkship NBME standardized exams for School of Medicine students.

Diploma Fee
The cost associated with the printing and issuing of diplomas.

Equipment Rental
This fee is assessed to all dental students. Funds are used to purchase and maintain dental equipment needed to treat patients and for use in pre-clinical courses.

Health Insurance
This fee is assessed to students who elect to purchase the student health insurance plan offered by the university. The Health Insurance Fee provides comprehensive and preventive healthcare coverage. This premium includes Needlestick coverage and is for six months in for Fall or Spring (January through June or July through December), or May through June for summer enrollment.

Instrument Rental
This fee is assessed to all dental students. Funds are used to provide all instruments for patient care, burs, and articulators, and to maintain the central sterilization area.

Locker Rental
This fee is used to maintain the lockers distributed to medical students during their first and second years. The lockers are used to store books and supplies for classes during their pre-clinical years.

MPAS Kit
The cost of required materials and supplies purchased through the campus bookstore when enrolled in PYAS 6550 (Patient Evaluation) in Master of Physician Assistant Studies program.

Nursing Kits
The cost associated with the purchase of the required kits for the nursing program when enrolled in HLSC 2417 (Health Assessment Laboratory).

OT Lab Fee
The cost associated with participation in occupational therapy labs in the first Spring term.

Parking Gate Card
The cost associated with purchasing the optional parking gate card. This is the device that attaches to your windshield that allows the system to read your permit number. It is a one-time purchase and refundable upon return.

Parking Permit
The cost associated with purchasing the optional parking permit. The annual fee covers Fall, Spring, and Summer. This fee is prorated based on your first term of the academic year.

Pre-Clinical Prosthodontic Fee
The fee associated with participation in the Pre-Clinical Prosthodontic program.

SADHA
The cost associated with the annual membership fee for the Student American Dental Hygienists' Association.

Stick Fee
This fee is assessed to students who provide proof of private health insurance that is comparable to the student health insurance plan offered by the university. The Needlestick Fee is an insurance coverage that protects students in case they are exposed to blood-borne pathogens.

Thesis Fee
The cost associated with thesis printing and binding.