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Tuition payment plan

Tuition payment services are a central part of Sallie Mae Business Office Solutions.

With a variety of solutions to choose from, you can offer the option that works best for you and your students.

Sallie Mae's TuitionPay plans provide your students and their parents with a money-saving option that makes education affordable and attainable.

The plans break down tuition costs into interest-free manageable monthly payment amounts, rather than one lump sum. Plan terms can be customized to best fit the needs of your families, including payment periods of 3–24 months or longer. Parents can schedule automatic payments from their credit cards or bank accounts, putting an end to paper statements, reducing the number of delinquent accounts, and making it easier for you to manage billing and cash flow.

Reduces operating expenses

The TuitionPay Plan helps reduce the costs associated with:

  • Processing payments
  • Mailing statements
  • Marketing/mailing promotional literature
  • Pursuing unpaid accounts
  • Answering phone calls and questions
  • Staffing

Customized for your school

Sallie Mae works with you to:

  • Customize your plans and marketing strategy
  • Create a co-branded payment counseling website
  • Determine payment options (e.g., credit cards, ACH debit, debit cards)

Fast deployment, multiple benefits

The TuitionPay Plan offers the following benefits:

  • Dedicated customer support: Sallie Mae provides a dedicated account management team to support your school.
  • Toll-free number for families: Our call center can support your school's families and reduce call volume coming into the business office.
  • Dynamic data transfer and seamless integration: An integrated solution with our monthly payment plan provides real-time data transfer of billing, payment, and account information.
  • Revenue opportunities: We can create a financial model that includes revenue opportunities if your school seeks additional funds to offset expenses, add to its endowment, or provide scholarship assistance to needy students.
  • Rapid deployment: Your school can have the Tuition Payment Plan up and running in as little as two weeks.

Plan options

The TuitionPay Plan provides unmatched flexibility, with numerous plan options tailored to your school’s objectives. Options include:

  • Annual plans
  • Single semester plans
  • Term-based annual plans
  • Deferred plans
  • Extended study plans
  • Early decision plans
  • Specialized plans for problem payers

Additional features and benefits

Enrollment and retention

Your school wants to promote student enrollment and retention to ensure a secure revenue stream. We can help.

On the front end, we couple the affordable TuitionPay Plan with special marketing materials that promote your school's affordability and help families create an early payment strategy. On the back end, we help you monitor potential retention problems with our TuitionPay Alert early intervention questionnaires and reporting.

TuitionPay has long promoted careful financial planning. Like you, we try to help families create a payment strategy that minimizes debt. And unlike many other financial services companies, we offer the budgeting and borrowing products that families will need to execute their financial strategy.

We can provide your families with toll-free access to trained payment counselors, simple payment planning literature, online payment calculators, and more. By fielding your families' general payment questions, we take that burden from your school.

To learn more about TuitionPay, call Business Office Solutions at (800) 531-4300.

"The first year with Sallie Mae was amazing. We had increased enrollment in the plan and we had absolutely no problems. We also had a significant decrease in the receivables for those accounts that were participating in a payment plan. The best part for us was online access to student payment plan details and our account information."
—Jon Walsh
Assistant VP of Student Financial Services,
Saint Leo University


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