Financial Information: Undergraduate

Tuition and Fees

The School of Music's undergraduate tuition is billed as a guaranteed package rate, meaning you pay one flat fee each year for all of your coursework and you are billed the same rate each year you are in a program for up to four years. In other words, your tuition rate is locked in at the tuition rate you pay in your first year of the program.

Tuition for undergraduate students entering in the fall of 2009 is $29,630.

Tuition is billed in thirds and due at the beginning of each quarter. 

Financial Assistance

Music Performance Awards

You will automatically be considered for a Music Performance Award based on you entrance audition. Music Performance Awards are merit-based scholarships.  No additional paper work is required.

Music Performance Awards are renewable given your full-time enrollment in the School of Music and your participation in assigned ensembles and other School of Music productions. Music Performance Awards may be held concurrently with academic and community service scholarships.

Academic Scholarships

First Year Students who wish to be considered for academic scholarships and community service awards are not required to submit a separate application. You will automatically be considered for an academic merit award based on your admission application. Consideration for academic scholarships require that a First Year Student be ranked in the top 10% of his or her class and have an ACT score of 27 or higher (SAT of 1220 or higher).

Academic scholarships may be renewed based on full-time enrollment and grade point averages that vary with the value of the award. 

Transfer students

Academic scholarships may only be awarded to students who have completed or are enrolled in two-year programs at Illinois community colleges with cumulative grade point averages of 3.5 and higher.

If you currently receive a music scholarship from your college and you wish to be considered for a music scholarship at DePaul, we need to receive a completed Transfer Acknowledgement Form ( PDF) signed by your current music chairperson, acknowledging your interest in DePaul and giving us permission to speak with you about music scholarships.

Need-Based Financial Aid

All need-based financial aid is based on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).  The FAFSA becomes available on January 1 of the year in which you will begin college and can either be submitted through a hard copy – generally available from college financial aid offices – or online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. 

To have your FAFSA results reported to the School of Music, enter DePaul University’s FAFSA code, 001671, in the college section.