Fees

When are fees due?

Payment is due upon registration.

Prior to the last day of open registration, students will be dropped for non-payment of enrollment fees ten (10) days after the date they registered for the particular course(s). After the last day of open registration, students will not be dropped for non-payment of enrollment fees; however, these students will have a hold placed on their transcripts, grades, diplomas and registration privileges until their enrollment fees are paid.

Students will not be charged enrollment fees for waitlisted classes until they are added to the class. Please remember to check your registration status for any waitlisted classes to ensure you pay within ten (10) days from the date you are added to those classes.

Any account balance older than 120 days may be subject to the collection process.

What fees are charged at Porterville College?

The state legislature imposed enrollment fees to all students enrolling in credit courses. (Education Code, Section 72252, Title 5, Sections 58500-58508.) The California enrollment fee is dependent on state legislature action. The following fee structure is for courses offered at Porterville College during the Spring 2009.

California Resident:

Enrollment Fees per Credit – $20
Mandatory Health Fee – $12 (Summer session $9.00)
Student Body Operating and Building Fee – $1 per credit (No charge for summer)

Non-resident:

Non-Resident Fee (15 credit maximum charge) – $201
California Enrollment Fee per Credit – $20
Capital Outlay Fee – $43
Health Fee – $12 (Summer session $9.00)
Student Body Operating and Building Fee per Credit – $1 ($5.00 maximum charge)(No charge for summer)
More information on California Residency requirements…

Other college fees:

Audit Fees per Credit – $15 Parking Permit – $ 20 ($10.00 for summer) Academic Transcripts – (Frist two are free) Official and Unofficial – $4 Emergency Transcripts – $8 Associated Student Body Card – $7.50 fall and $7.50 for spring.

Non-resident students are required by state law to pay tuition. Non-resident fees are applied up to and including 15 credits. The California enrollment fee is applied to maximum load for all students including non-resident students.

All fees are payable at the time of registration. Fees may be paid by cash, check or by credit card. Checks should be made payable to Porterville College for the amount of the fees due. There is a $25 charge for any check returned to Porterville College by a bank because of insufficient funds. Additional fees based on usage may be charged in some classes for supplemental materials and/or supplies.

Exemption from Payment of Non-resident Tuition

AB 540 Students

Students who meet the four specified requirements below may be exempted from the payment of non-resident tuition. Those requirements are:

High school attendance in California for three or more years;
Graduation from a California high school or attainment of the equivalent thereof;
Registration as an entering student, or current enrollment at an accredited institution of higher education in California, not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001-02 academic year; and,
In the case of a person without lawful immigration status, the filing of an affidavit with the institution of higher education stating that the student has filed an application to legalize his or her immigration status, or will file an application as soon as he or she is eligible to do so.

AB 540 does not provide student financial eligibility for undocumented alien students. The student remains ineligible for state and federal financial aid.

The AB 540 Forms may be picked up at the Admissions and Records Office.

How do I get a fee refund?

Students shall be credited any excess enrollment fee or non-resident tuition computed based on credits of current enrollment, if a student drops a course within:
1. two (2) weeks after the starting date of a semester length course, or
2. a date calculated to be ten percent (10%) from the starting date of a course other than semester length.
  If a course is ten (10) days or less in length, the course must be dropped before the second meeting to be credited a refund computed based on credits of current enrollment.
3. Students enrolling in an open-entry/open-exit class after the ten (10%) percent date will not be entitled to any refund should they withdraw from the class.
If a class is canceled or rescheduled, the student shall be credited any excess enrollment fee computed based on credits of current enrollment.
A student entitled to receive the enrollment fee refund must:
1. apply for the refund using appropriate photo identification, and
2. present an appropriate receipt for fees paid.

Both of these items must be presented to the personnel in the Office of Admissions and Records. The student will be credited a health fee refund if all classes are dropped and an enrollment fee refund is generated by a class during the transaction.

If a student drops a course (within the first two weeks of instruction (or the ten (10%) percent date for a course less than a semester in length), which requires a materials fee, the student is eligible for a refund of the materials fee. After the first two weeks of a semester-length course or a date calculated to be ten (10%) percent from the starting day of a course other than semester length, no refund will be made for courses dropped. No cash refunds will be made, refund checks are processed in three to six weeks.