Tuition, Fees and Other Charges

2025-2026 Academic Year

Tuition per credit hour:

Business Cluster $718
Creative Writing MFA Program $540
Doctor of business administration cohort 2025-2026  $1100 
Doctor of organizational leadership cohort 2025-20261 $1015
General Cluster $520   
Health Cluster $820
Nursing Degrees and Health Doctorates    $1050
Science Cluster $695
*Renewal Not Retirement (RNR) per class  $100
 Audit  $300

*Hood's Renewal Not Retirement (RNR) program offers persons 60 years of age or older the opportunity to audit graduate courses.  Studio and lab courses, practicums and self-directed study courses are not available for audit.  

1 Rates are only for the cohort entering fall 2025. The DOL and DBA rates are locked by cohort for the duration of the program.

Comprehensive fee per term:

Non-doctoral: Fall, Spring                      $145
Non-doctoral: Summer, Winter $88
Doctoral (Fall/Spring only)
$600
Doctoral Summer, Winter  $300

Other Fees

Creative Writing MFA Residency Fee (per semester) - On Campus $1500
Creative Writing MFA Residence Fee (per semester) - Off Campus $1000

Refer to the Accounting Services website for more information, including which programs fall within each tuition cluster.