Graduate School Cost of Attendance

Graduate Programs

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The fee amounts noted below for 2024-2025 are for tuition only and do not include fees, books, supplies or personal expenses. There is a Graduate School fee of $300 for each term you are enrolled as a student.

The cost for most graduate programs is $690/credit hour unless otherwise indicated below. 

• Business Administration, MBA
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $24,840
• Christian Ministry, MACM
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $33,810
• Counseling, M.A.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $42,090
• Creative Writing, MFA
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $31,050
• Dietetic Internship / Nutrition, M.S.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $12,420
• Divinity, M.Div.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $57,960
• Exercise Science, M.S.
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,150
• Human Services, M.A.
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,150
• Leadership, M.A.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $22,770
• Nutrition, M.S
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $24,150
• Nursing Practice, FNP/DNP & Post-Master's DNP
  $895/credit hour; $7,500 per semester (8 semesters)
• Occupational Therapy, M.S.
  $12,500/semester; $2,500 per summer term; total tuition: $55,000 (4 full semesters and 2 summer sessions)
• Public Health, MPH
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $28,980
• Public Health (MPH) / Business Administration (MBA) - MPH-MBA Dual-Degree
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $39,330
• Physician Assistant Studies**
  $15,000/semester (program starts in fall 2024)
• Sustainability Studies, M.S.
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,150
• Teaching, MAT
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,700
• Theological Studies, MTS
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $33,120

Hickory Campus Fees

• Graduate Student General Fee: $300/semester
• Application Fee: $35 (all graduate students)
• Replacement ID/Key: $15
• Transcript Fee: $10
• Room Rate for Hickory Graduate Students: $3,400/semester

LTSS Programs Tuition & Fees

• Full-time Tuition: $22,000/year
• Overload (> 14 credits in a semester): $690/credit
• Part-time (< 9 credits in a semester): $900/credit
• Summer Semester: $690/credit
• Course Audit: $300/credit
• Internship Tuition (paid by sponsor parish): $1,000/year
• Graduate Student Fee: $300/semester
• Application Fee (all graduate students: $35

Columbia Graduate Student - Room Charges

• Beam Dormitory - Fall & Spring (Single Occupancy): $4,200/year
• 2 Bed Apartment - Fall & Spring (Single or Family): $ 9,400/year
• 2 Bed Apartment - Fall & Spring (Double Occupancy): $4,900/year
• 3-4 Bed Apartment - Fall & Spring (Triple Occupancy): $3,600/year
• Parking Permit Fee: $60/year
• Pet Fee (non cat/dog): $275/year
• Pet Fee (cat/dog): $500/year
• Summer Rate - Beam Dormitory (Single Occupancy): $215/week
• Summer Rate - 2 Bed Apartment (Single or Family): $3,250 (June-Aug.)
• Summer Rate - 2 Bed Apartment (Double Occupancy): $1,750 (June-Aug.)
• Summer Rate - 2 Bed Apartment (Double Occupancy): $1,200 (June-Aug.)

** The Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies has applied for Accreditation-Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). The Physician Assistant Studies program anticipates matriculating its first class in October 2024, pending achieving Accreditation-Provisional status at the June 2024 ARC-PA meeting.

Accreditation-Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA standards or when a program holding Accreditation-Provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students. 

The Lenoir-Rhyne PA Studies program will not commence in the event that provisional accreditation is not received. (The program deposit fee will be refunded in the event that provisional accreditation is not received.)