High Achiever Tuition Rate
High Achiever Tuition Rate for Graduate Students
Effective fall 2016 the SIUC Graduate School will be offering an alternative High Achiever Tuition Rate to all new, first-time, non-resident graduate students who demonstrate high academic achievement via GRE exam scores.
Eligible students will pay an alternate tuition rate equivalent to the current Illinois in-state graduate tuition rate. This rate is 40% of the non-resident tuition rate, so this is a significant benefit!
The definition of high academic achievement on the GRE exam is a score of 80% or higher on either the Verbal Reasoning OR Quantitative Reasoning sections of the exam. This currently means a Verbal Reasoning score of at least 159 or a Quantitative Reasoning score of at least 161. (Your GRE score report will show your score percentages along with the scaled scores.)
In order to receive the High Achiever Tuition Rate while at SIUC, students must submit an official GRE score at the time of admission. Current/previous students are not eligible to receive the High Achiever rate, and scores submitted after admission will not affect a student's tuition rate.
Applicants may continue to upload their own personal Test Taker Score Report for the Computer Science degree programs review and assistantship consideration, but they must also request right away for ETS to directly send the official qualifying GRE score report electronically to SIUC with School Code 1726 for consideration for the Alternative Tuition Rate (ATR).
Note: the GRE exam is not a requirement for admission to the CS MS program, but it is a requirement for this alternative reduced tuition rate. It is also highly recommended for new MS students to be considered for assistantships.
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Note: Prior to starting your application process through the link above, please review our school of computing computer science program requirements for our master's and doctoral programs.