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Turn Back Tuition

In continuing efforts to expand access to an education for the 61 percent of Americans who don’t hold a post-secondary degree, Lipscomb University is offering adults who have attended college, but not completed a bachelor’s degree, the opportunity to turn back time by enrolling in the Adult Degree Program at a tuition equal to when they previously were enrolled in college.

Through the Turn Back Tuition Program, former college students who attended (but did not graduate from) Lipscomb University, other Tennessee institutions of higher education, and any regionally accredited college or university in the country between 1972 and 2008 can restart their studies at Lipscomb University at a reduced tuition rate.  As a way of assisting students in overcoming the fear and anxiety of returning to college, and acknowledging that tuition prices have risen significantly, students participating in the Turn Back Tuition Program are allowed to “try out” Lipscomb’s Adult Degree Program for a semester in carefully-selected courses.

To participate in the Turn Back Tuition Program, an individual must:

  • Have graduated from high school in 2008 or earlier or cannot have attended college in the past four years;

  • Meet the current admissions entrance criteria for the Adult Degree Program;

  • Submit academic transcripts;

  • Not have been admitted for Lipscomb’s fall semester 2012 prior to June 10, 2012;

  • Enroll for a minimum of six credit hours and no more than 12 credit hours; and

  • Pursue a bachelor’s degree that is offered in the Adult Degree Program

Eligible students will pay the Lipscomb Adult Degree Program tuition price at the time they last attended college.  The tuition reduction will be in effect for the first semester that a student is enrolled.  The following chart outlines the tuition intervals that are available to students in the Turn Back Tuition Program.

 

 Year Last Enrolled in College

  Tuition Rate (per hour)

    Savings (per credit)

1972-1974

$37.5

92.5%

1975-1979

$41

91.8%

1980-1984

$68

86.4%

1985-1989

$105

79%

1990-1994

$156

68.7%

1995-1999

$256.50

48.6%

2000-2004

$335

32.9%

2005-2008

$424

15%

For more information on the Turn Back Tuition Program, call 615.966.1111.