Tuition and Financial Aid
This site provides details on tuition and fees, applying for financial aid, types of funding, billing policies, and more. Please review all the information carefully and contact the Office of Financial Aid if you have any questions.
Non-Degree Transfer Credits
Policy Effective Summer 2023
This policy applies to Harvard Chan School non-degree students that have completed the summer PCE program and then matriculate as a degree student effective summer 2023. PCE credits must have been completed within five years of matriculating into a degree program.
- Students in an academic year MPH45 or SM42.5 degree program are billed 1/3 of the current academic year’s program tuition rate in each of the first two terms of enrollment, whether full- or part-time.
- Students in a summer-focused MPH45 or summer-only SM42.5 degree program are billed 1/3 of the current academic year’s program tuition rate in the first two summers of enrollment. Optional fall and spring enrollment is included in this summer flat rate.
TAP recipients are assessed tuition based on a degree program per-credit rate for the remaining credits in their degree program in each required term of enrollment.
Harvard Chan School non-degree students who matriculate in a degree program may transfer and apply up to 20 credits towards a single degree program’s requirements under the following conditions:
- Non-degree credits were completed at Harvard Chan School
- Tuition has been paid in full
- Credits were completed within five years of matriculating in a degree program
- A signed Harvard Chan Non-Degree Transfer Credit Form has been submitted to the Registrar’s Office.
Students that matriculate in a degree program will be billed in each required term of enrollment until the degree program’s tuition requirement is met.
Harvard Chan School non-degree transfer credit tuition equivalencies are as follows:
- 15-20 credits are equivalent to one full-time flat tuition assessment
- 7.5-14.99 credits are equivalent to one part-time flat tuition assessment
- Less than 7.5 credits do not carry a financial benefit
TAP recipients are assessed tuition based on their degree program’s per-credit rate in each required term of enrollment for the remaining credits in their degree program.
Students in the MPH-GEN, MPH-EPI, and MHCM programs are not permitted to waive, substitute, or transfer credits into the pr