Tuition Benefit

St. Olaf College offers a partial tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty and staff to attend and receive a bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf or other eligible ELCA, ACM or GLCA post-secondary institutions around the country.

Eligibility

Both the employee and student must meet certain eligibility requirements to utilize the tuition benefit. Review the policy in the Staff Handbook (criteria applies to both Staff and Faculty).

Benefit Amount and Duration

The tuition benefit amount and duration are based on the employee’s FTE grouping. Room and Board is always an additional cost and is not used to determine the amount of the tuition benefit. Families will not be informed of the actual tuition benefit amount until the student has completed the application for the college, the Tuition Benefit Application, and has been accepted to the college.

St. Olaf participates in three tuition benefit programs — the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Program, the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) program, and Great Lakes College Association (GLCA).

The ELCA tuition benefit program has a benefit amount of 80% of tuition for dependents of full-time employees (.75 – 1.-0 FTE). The ACM and GLCA tuition benefit programs have a benefit amount of 90% of tuition for dependents of full-time employees (.75 – 1.-0 FTE). The remaining 10–20% of tuition plus housing and meal plan costs are the responsibility of the family. We encourage families to complete the FAFSA. Many students can qualify for student loans to be used toward the family responsibility. The St. Olaf Tuition benefit is 90%.

The tuition benefit amount for part-time employees (.50 – .749 FTE) can be found in the Staff Handbook.

Find out in this List of Participating Institutions.

Check out the Process Flow for each program.

The deadline is May 1 for all programs.