Dr. Kwang-Wu Kim - President and CEO of Columbia College Chicago

A Message from President Kim on the 2020-21 Academic Year Tuition

July 2, 2020

To Columbia College Chicago students and their families:

I am pleased to announce that the Columbia College Chicago Board of Trustees has approved lowering tuition for the 2020-21 academic year back to its 2019-20 level. The trustees took this action in recognition of the fact that students and their families are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying economic downturn. Your financial aid package for 2020-21 will be unaffected by this change, which applies to undergraduate and graduate tuition.

Please note that it may take a couple of weeks to adjust student accounts and update the information that is published on the MyColumbia portal. Your next e-bill will reflect the new 2020-21 tuition rate.

In a related matter, the Chicago Transit Authority has made participation in the Ventra U-Pass program optional for the fall 2020 semester. Columbia Central will remove the automatic $153 U-Pass charge for fall 2020 from eligible full-time students’ accounts and will issue instructions to those students about how to enroll in the program if they wish.

Columbia’s buildings have re-opened on a limited basis, the first step in a phased process that will culminate when you are welcomed on campus in the fall - with everyone wearing a face covering and maintaining social distancing, of course. If you have not already done so, I encourage you to review and become familiar with the college’s re-opening plans and to complete the Together, Columbia campus re-opening training that is now required of all members of the Columbia community before they enter the campus for the first time. (You should have received a link to the training module via your Columbia email account.)

I wish you a safe and healthy summer and I look forward to seeing you in the fall.
 

Sincerely,

Kwang-Wu Kim, President

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