e·Bills and Billing Statements
USC does not mail paper statements to currently enrolled students. We do send e·Bills each month to students and their authorized guests notifying you that a new monthly billing statement is available online (for those students with outstanding balances or activity on their account during the billing period). For students who pre-register for the Fall or Spring terms, your tuition and fees for that term should be included on the statement generated the month before the start of classes.
Please note that email has been adopted as the primary mechanism for sending official communications to USC students. Students, therefore, must check email regularly in order to stay abreast of important messages and notifications. Failure to read official university communications sent to students' official USC email addresses (ending in "@usc.edu"), does not absolve students from knowing and complying with the content of official communications. For more information on the university's email policy, please refer to the "University Governance" section in SCampus at http://www.usc.edu/scampus.
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Statements
Each month, billing statements are generated for all students who have outstanding balances or have activity on their student account during the month. The student system is 'frozen' beginning at 5pm on the Friday of a monthly payment due date (which may also be a Fall / Spring tuition and fee payment deadline), and statement processing begins immediately. When the statements are ready, e·Bills (email notices with the subject "USC's New Monthly Billing Statement") are sent to all of these students and to their designated guests.
Fall / Spring Billing & Payments:
If you need your Fall / Spring charges to appear on a billing statement before the term due date, please register at least 40 days in advance of the start of classes (see term's "Registration Calendar" in the Schedule of Classes at http://www.usc.edu/soc ).
If you enroll or have a change of program (add or drop classes) that results in additional charges after the pre-registration billing date (approximately one month before the term's payment deadline / due date), you will not receive another billing notice before the payment deadline. Any Fall/Spring tuition and fees not settled by the term due date will be subject to late fees as described in the Schedule of Classes.
If you drop or add classes after the term payment deadline, all charges must be paid or deferred in full by 5 pm, PST, on Friday during the week in which the change took place. If any portion remains unpaid, late fees will be assessed according to the late fee schedule ($100.00 per week).
We email monthly billing notices (e-bills) to all students who have outstanding balances or have activity on their student accounts during the month to their USC email addresses, selected guest email addresses and epay alternate email address.
Non-receipt of a bill or failure to access it online does not relieve you of the payment / settlement deadline. Using the Web Registration auto scheduler feature but failing to register for any courses before the tuition and fees payment deadline is not a valid reason to request a waiver of the late registration fee.
Summer Billing & Payment
Summer charges are posted to your account at the time of registration and will be billed on the next billing statement. Payment is due on the due date listed on the billing statement regardless of when classes actually start.
Student Responsibility
If you are an enrolled student, it is your responsibility to check your official USC email account frequently for important messages (such as e-bill notices) and to make sure you do not exceed the quota on your email account. You may choose to forward emails from your official USC account to another email address provided by your academic unit or to your personal email account, however it is your responsibility to make sure that your forwarding is set up correctly and that your official mailbox does not fill up. USCe.pay also accepts entry of an alternate email address for e-bill notices.
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