I am hoping some of the parents who have paid bills for returning students can give me some perspective on the fees that are posted to our first bill. I am wondering if the fees are per semester or if they are annual amounts that won’t appear for the spring semester bill:
BA Enrichment Fee
Honors College Prog Fee
Technology Fee
Housing Activity Fee
Post Office Box Fee
Security Network Fee
In terms of planning for the spring semester payment, it would be helpful to know.
Thanks!
http://www.sc.edu/bursar/fees.shtml. Look here for tuition and fees and also click on academic fees and optional fees. If the fee has a number beside it, go down to bottom of page to read details about it, including if it is one time, etc. If there is no comment number, it is a fee per semester. Guessing that all you are listing are per semester unless BA enrichment is one time - not sure. The fee pages (under academic fees) will also tell you about fees for lab courses and overloads etc.
Edited: Just check on D last spring bill and all these fees except BA enrichment, which may not apply to her, were billed which means we paid them each semester. Plus fees for things such as PE, language labs, etc.
Hi SC Mom - thanks as usual for your help. As an optimist, I was hoping they would only hit once… 
Some of those are only if you live on-campus. My DD is off-campus this semester, and she does not have the housing activity fee, post office box fee, and security network fee on her bill. She does have the Technology fee.
She is not in the Honors College so no fee for that, and I have no idea what the “BA Enrichment” fee is.
Are they a business student? I’m pretty sure I remember reading in the paper at some point, that all Business School students have an enrichment fee that they must pay each semester, simply for being business students. It would make sense to me that “BA” would be for Business.
Is it $660? Because I found this: “36) DMSB Enrichment Fees applies to all Undergraduate students in the Moore School of business including freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. This fee is assessed in Fall and Spring semesters. Part time students are assessed the per credit hour rate.”
https://sc.edu/bursar/schedule_columbiadeptfees.shtml#businessmoore
All of those fees should be each semester. But I would also note, that any deposit you put down to enroll won’t be counted in the second semester, so your bill should actually go up. At least, that’s what happened when I enrolled at USC four years ago. My housing and tuition increased second semester because of the deposit I put down to enroll was applied to first semester and not second semester. Between housing and tuition, it ended up being a few hundred bucks.