<p>I can pay for college with a cc if I don't mind paying a 2.5% convenience fee (the people that process the payment get that). Not a chance I'm making multi-thousand $ payments and paying that fee.</p>
<p>Chapman University in Orange County, California, takes credit cards but NOT Visa, because Visa passes on the surcharge to their students' families.</p>
<p>So as a longtime Visa customer, I just check my computerized notification of the monthly bill, find my checkbook and a stamp, and send them the amount. Those with the less oppressive credit cards are able to click and pay it immediately by computer. </p>
<p>Other than their first bill, they only send a bill by computer. I appreciate that as an institutional savings, and less paper for me.</p>
<p>Meh, whatever....</p>
<p>I can pay funds into my kids student account for meals, books, etc. with credit card with no additional fees but if I try to pay the tuition bill with a credit card they surcharge me.</p>
<p>We can't pay tuition by Visa at D's small LAC. I understand that. But when she went to the bookstore and tried to hand them our credit card, the kind lady said "Oh, don't worry about that, we just put them on your account." So then they mail us a bill for her books! This semester I will ask her to insist on paying by credit card - good grief, the postage and time lag should be worse than the fees they have to pay Visa! Other parents report getting monthly bills - $5 from the health center, $45 for a lab fee, etc.</p>
<p>If I want to use my CC to put $$ on my son's NYU campus cash card, I pay a fee of $1.50 no matter what CC card I use or how much money I put on the account.</p>
<p>OTOH, I can get a NYU bookstore giftcard with no CC surcharge. I'm doing that next time (also assures all the $$ gets used for books and not vending machine crap).</p>
<p>He can put cash on the NYU campus card via machines in the dorm (no surcharge for depositing cash)</p>
<p>Wagner college accepts payments via cash, check or credit/debit card. You can also do electronic check. All with no fees.</p>
<p>NYU takes credit cards. I believe there is a 2.5% fee though.</p>
<p>We get charged $2 to add money to our NYUCard so we can do our freaking laundry so I’m not surprised. But then with tuition nearing $40k (not even kidding, and housing/fees are on top of this) they really should cover that.</p>
<p>Not to defend NYU (my son goes there) but credit card companies charge a processing fee and that is what NYU is passing on instead of absorbing the loss. The $2 to add money to NYU card is sinful considering that it isn’t related to the amount you add</p>
<p>EVERY time you buy something with a cc, the merchant pays a fee.
If you were paying 10000 on a cc, then the fee could be as much as $250 and NYU isn’t going to absorb that.</p>
<p>As far as merchant fees go-cost of doing business. When it raises tuition 6% every year, it’s not going to get any sympathy from me.</p>
<p>Miami(FL) allows CC payments + 2% fee (last time I checked).</p>
<p>The fee is a straight pass through of what VISA/MC charges them. So if your school isn’t charging the fee, they either cut a separate deal with the CC companies and/or everyone else is covering that cost somewhere else.</p>
<p>40,000 air miles is 1.5 to 2 coach tickets depending on the program. If you live anywhere near a major airport $400 gets you most anywhere in the country, so if the fee is more the $800, you’re better of not using the CC. (Of course the threshold is probably closer to $600, after i’ve had to pay the airline a $25 convenience fee to use my miles, a $15 fee to get the seat I want and a $50 luggage fee).</p>
<p>One other thought would be payment by PayPal.</p>