Student Accounts

Account Balances?

Summer offers lots of options for students. Few of them, other than summer school have anything to do with school. Mostly it is either kick back or work like crazy or both. With this in mind it might be a good idea, in fact, a very good idea, to check your account balances.
If you don’t know you have an account at your school then you probably don’t know that you have a balance. In this case some basic Planet College orientation is due.
When a student is admitted most colleges create an account for the new student. This account is administered through an office usually in the administration building. This often is called the Bursar’s office but it might be titled Student Accounts. What ever. But either way you as a student have an account. This account works somewhat similarly to other accounts you may have. Checking accounts or savings accounts at your bank or credit union or bank are common examples. In this system charges are applied, tuition, fees, etc. and payments are applied to your account. When the payments applied to the charges equal or exceed the charges the account is usually said to be balanced. Payments are often made through financial aid. Payments are also made by students with a check or a credit card. Some times payments are made by parents to the students account.

However the payments are made the simple fact is you do have an account and the school wants it balanced. More simply they want the money.