Welcome Ohio State employees! This orientation section will give you an overview of your employee tuition assistance plan. Carefully review this section, as it includes information regarding how to keep your tuition benefit. Review all University deadlines, especially in regards to dropping courses, to successfully use your tuition benefit. If you have any questions about the benefit, Human Resources can be reached at 614-292-1050 or at hr@osu.edu. Once you review all the information on this page, please complete the quiz to verify your understanding of the benefit and associated policies.
Plan Highlights
The Faculty and Staff Tuition Assistance Plan:
- Eligible employees must enroll to opt-in to the Plan on Work Day each semester that they plan to take courses.
- Does pay the instructional, general and non-Ohio resident fees up to 10 hours per term.
- Does not pay for application fees, registration fees, late fees, lab fees, computer fees, student activity fees, recreational sports fee*, COTA bus fee, insurance, books, etc.
- Does not pay for audited courses.
- You may enroll in undergraduate, graduate or professional degree-granting programs upon meeting the university’s admission requirements.
*The recreational sports fee is not charged to Ohio State employee’s accounts. Learn more about Recreational Sports Membership.
Fee Adjustments and One-Time Forgiveness Benefit
If you withdraw during the 75%, 50%, 0% refund periods, you are responsible for paying the non-refundable instructional and general fees. You may incur fee adjustments (which also may be referred to as forfeiture charges) if you withdraw from courses. The Plan will pay the fee adjustment for one academic term while you are actively employed with the university. A completed One-Time-Forgiveness Benefit Application and approval from the Office of Human Resources is required. You can only use this waiver once. Fee adjustments will be your responsibility if you have already used the one-time waiver. Contact hr@osu.edu for more information.
Refer to Faculty and Staff Tuition Assistance for more detailed information.
Tax Implications
Undergraduate tuition assistance benefits are generally not taxable.
Graduate-level tuition assistance benefits that do not exceed a certain amount in a calendar year are generally not taxable. Review the tuition assistance information for details.
Eligibility and Enrollment
- Prior to receiving the benefit, you must be admitted to the university through either the Admissions Office or the Office of Extended Education. You may enroll in undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree-granting programs upon meeting the university’s admission requirements. Contact Buckeye Link or Extended Education for assistance.
- Tuition assistance under the Plan is provided on an academic term basis. Eligible employees must enroll in the Plan for each academic term that assistance is requested.
- To enroll in the Plan for an academic term, an eligible employee must go to Workday and follow steps below to complete online application for that term.
- Click Benefits from the home page.
- Under the Change section, click Benefits.
- Click Faculty and Staff Tuition Assistance Enrollment option from the drop down menu.
- Enter today’s date in the Benefit Event Date field, click Submit and follow remaining steps to complete enrollment.
- Eligible employees who want a paper form should complete the Faculty and Staff Tuition Assistance Application.
Please complete: Quiz 5 - Employee Tuition Assistance Benefit Plan
Please complete the Orientation Contact Form as a record of your completion. Then continue to After Admission: Step 4.