CU Boulder

• If you are taking classes informally, complete the Faculty/Staff/Dependent Nondegree application by July 11, 2025.
• If you are taking classes toward a specific degree, complete the degree application by published admissions deadlines.

In the past, non-degree students were required to term-activate every semester. Boulder has now begun automating this process. If you were admitted for the fall semester, you should be term-activated after you receive email confirmation that your admission is approved.

Dependents and Employees Register: On designated registration day

• You may want to list a few backup options on your tuition assistance benefit application, in case the classes you'd like to take are full.
• Please refer to the academic calendar's add/drop course deadlines.
• Course eligibility depends on the person who is using the benefit:
  • Dependents
  • Employees
• Note: If you add, swap, withdraw, or drop a course after your tuition waiver is applied, please contact the CU Boulder Bursar's Office at bldrtuitionbenefit@colorado.edu. 

Deadline: Please see billing calendar

• You must pay any additional fees and/or non-waived tuition by the tuition due date.
• Tuition Assistance Benefit adjustments will be made by the tuition due date.
• For more information, visit the CU Boulder Bursar's Office website.

Application deadline: August 13, 2025

Authorization deadline: August 20, 2025

• If you or your dependent are taking undergraduate courses and are a Colorado resident, apply for the College Opportunity Fund (COF).
• Please note: If these funds are available to you or your dependent and you do not use them, you will be responsible for the tuition amount that would been covered by COF.

You must be:

• In a regular, non-temporary benefits eligible job code,
• In a 20 hours per week or more appointment (a 50% or greater appointment),
• Eligible for benefits by the tuition assistance application deadline at the campus you will attend. 
  • Note: If your hire date is the first of the month, your eligibility begins that day. If your job began on any other day of the month, your eligibility begins on the first of the following month.
  • Employees who receive a tuition waiver and are not eligible on the application deadline will have their tuition waiver reversed.

 Application opens: May 1, 2025

Application deadline: June 15, 2025

Use the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application for employee and dependent submissions for all campuses. Employees must submit the application on their dependent's behalf.

Access the application:

1. Log into the employee portal.
2. Open the CU Resources dropdown menu and select Forms.
3. Click the Benefits tile, then click the Tuition Assistance Application tile.

If your dependent is not listed on your CU health, dental or life insurance, you must submit a Dependent Eligibility Verification Form. When you fill out the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application, attach and submit it with your application.

• You will receive an email confirmation from tuitionbenefit@cu.edu that we have received your application within 24 hours. 
• Once Employee Services determines your eligibility, you'll receive another email confirmation.

• Employee Services verifies Tuition Assistance employee and dependent eligibility, and sends your application to the Bursar's Office.
• The Bursar's Office will process your application for course eligibility.
  • For dependents, this process may take 1-2 weeks.
  • For employees, it may take 1-4 weeks.
• You'll receive an email confirmation from the Bursar's Office once your TAB application is processed.
• The Bursar will apply your benefit within five business days of this notice.

If any courses are ineligible:

• You will have five business days from the receipt of your email notification to drop these courses.
• If you do not drop these courses, you will be responsible for paying out-of-pocket for these courses.

Deadline: June 15, 2025

If the courses you originally requested were full, resubmit the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application to Employee Services with a list of new courses.

We cannot accept course corrections after the tuition assistance benefit application deadline.

• If you are taking classes informally, complete the Faculty/Staff/Dependent Nondegree application by Jan. 3, 2025.
• If you are taking classes toward a specific degree, complete the degree application by published admissions deadlines.

In the past, non-degree students were required to term-activate every semester. Boulder has now begun automating this process. If you were admitted for the fall semester, you should be term-activated after you receive email confirmation that your admission is approved.

Dependents and Employees Register: On designated registration day

• You may want to list a few backup options on your tuition assistance benefit application, in case the classes you'd like to take are full.
• Please refer to the academic calendar's add/drop course deadlines.
• Course eligibility depends on the person who is using the benefit:
  • Dependents
  • Employees
• Note: If you add, swap, withdraw, or drop a course after your tuition waiver is applied, please contact the CU Boulder Bursar's Office at bldrtuitionbenefit@colorado.edu. 

Deadline: March 5, 2025

• You must pay any additional fees and/or non-waived tuition by the tuition due date.
• Tuition Assistance Benefit adjustments will be made by the tuition due date.
• For more information, visit the CU Boulder Bursar's Office website.

Application deadline: May 1, 2025

Authorization deadline: May 7, 2025

• If you or your dependent are taking undergraduate courses and are a Colorado resident, apply for the College Opportunity Fund (COF).
• Please note: If these funds are available to you or your dependent and you do not use them, you will be responsible for the tuition amount that would been covered by COF.

You must be:

• In a regular, non-temporary benefits eligible job code,
• In a 20 hours per week or more appointment (a 50% or greater appointment),
• Eligible for benefits by the tuition assistance application deadline at the campus you will attend. 

Note: If your hire date is the first of the month, your eligibility begins that day. If your job began on any other day of the month, your eligibility begins on the first of the following month.

 Application opens: Dec. 2, 2024

Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2025

Use the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application for employee and dependent submissions for all campuses. Employees must submit the application on their dependent's behalf.

Access the application:

1. Log into the employee portal.
2. Open the CU Resources dropdown menu and select Forms.
3. Click the Benefits tile, then click the Tuition Assistance Application tile.

If your dependent is not listed on your CU health, dental or life insurance, you must submit a Dependent Eligibility Verification Form. When you fill out the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application, attach and submit it with your application.

• You will receive an email confirmation from tuitionbenefit@cu.edu that we have received your application within 24 hours. 
• Once Employee Services determines your eligibility, you'll receive another email confirmation.

• Employee Services verifies Tuition Assistance employee and dependent eligibility, and sends your application to the Bursar's Office.
• The Bursar's Office will process your application for course eligibility.
  • For dependents, this process may take 1-2 weeks.
  • For employees, it may take 1-4 weeks.
• You'll receive an email confirmation from the Bursar's Office once your TAB application is processed.
• The Bursar will apply your benefit within five business days of this notice.

If any courses are ineligible:

• You will have five business days from the receipt of your email notification to drop these courses.
• If you do not drop these courses, you will be responsible for paying out-of-pocket for these courses.

Deadline: Feb. 15, 2025

If the courses you originally requested were full, resubmit the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application to Employee Services with a list of new courses.

We cannot accept course corrections after the tuition assistance benefit application deadline.

• If you are taking classes informally, complete the Faculty/Staff/Dependent Nondegree application by Aug. 15, 2024.
• If you are taking classes toward a specific degree, complete the degree application by published admissions deadlines.

In the past, non-degree students were required to term-activate every semester. Boulder has now begun automating this process. If you were admitted for the summer semester, you should be term-activated after you receive email confirmation that your admission is approved.

Employee and Dependents Register: On designated registration day

• Employees no longer have to wait until 7 days prior to the start of the semester to enroll.
• You may want to list a few backup options on your tuition assistance benefit application, in case the classes you'd like to take are full.
• Please refer to the academic calendar's add/drop course deadlines.
• Course eligibility depends on the person who is using the benefit:
  • Dependents
  • Employees
• Note: If you add, swap, withdraw, or drop a course after your tuition waiver is applied, please contact the CU Boulder Bursar's Office at bldrtuitionbenefit@colorado.edu. 

Deadline: Oct. 5, 2024

• You must pay any additional fees and/or non-waived tuition by the tuition due date.
• Tuition Assistance Benefit adjustments will be made by the tuition due date.
• For more information, visit the CU Boulder Bursar's Office website.

Application deadline: Dec. 12, 2024

Authorization deadline: Dec. 18, 2024

• If you or your dependent are taking undergraduate courses and are a Colorado resident, apply for the College Opportunity Fund (COF).
• Please note: If these funds are available to you or your dependent and you do not use them, you will be responsible for the tuition amount that would been covered by COF.

You must be:

• In a regular, non-temporary benefits eligible job code,
• In a 20 hours per week or more appointment (a 50% or greater appointment),
• Eligible for benefits by the tuition assistance application deadline at the campus you will attend.       

Note: If your hire date is the first of the month, your eligibility begins that day. If your job began on any other day of the month, your eligibility begins on the first of the following month.

 Application opens: Aug. 1, 2024

Application deadline: 11:59 p.m. Sept. 15, 2024

Use the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application for employee and dependent submissions for all campuses. Employees must submit the application on their dependent's behalf.

Access the application:

1. Log into the employee portal.
2. Open the CU Resources dropdown menu (at the top cetner of the page) and select Forms.
3. Click the Benefits tile, then click the Tuition Assistance Application tile.

If your dependent is not listed on your CU health, dental or life insurance, you must submit a Dependent Eligibility Verification Form. When you fill out the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application, attach and submit it with your application.

• You will receive an email confirmation from tuitionbenefit@cu.edu that we have received your application within 24 hours. 
• Once Employee Services determines your eligibility, you'll receive another email confirmation.

• Employee Services verifies Tuition Assistance employee and dependent eligibility, and sends your application to the Bursar's Office.
• The Bursar's Office will process your application for course eligibility.
  • For dependents, this process may take 1-2 weeks.
  • For employees, it may take 1-4 weeks.
• You'll receive an email confirmation from the Bursar's Office once your TAB application is processed.
• The Bursar will apply your benefit within five business days of this notice.

If any courses are ineligible:

• You will have five business days from the receipt of your email notification to drop these courses.
• If you do not drop these courses, you will be responsible for paying out-of-pocket for these courses.

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. Sept. 15, 2024

If the courses you originally requested were full, resubmit the Tuition Assistance Benefit Application to Employee Services with a list of new courses.

We cannot accept course corrections after the tuition assistance benefit application deadline.