Pay Your Bill

After you have received your aid notification and completed all necessary paperwork, your aid will automatically be displayed on your bill as anticipated payment. (If you're not sure if you have completed all your paperwork to receive your aid, check your "To-do" list on ACES). 

Duke University partners with Tuition Management Systems (TMS) to allow currently enrolled students and their parents to pay term charges in monthly payments as follows:

• Fall balance                 July 1 – November 1
• Spring balance             December 1 – April 1

A non-refundable plan enrollment fee of $35 is charged for TMS participation.

As a TMS participant, you will continue to receive billing statements on a regular basis from Duke. This statement should reflect your TMS payments made to date.  The balance due on your statement, which includes charges for the current term, must be covered by your remaining scheduled TMS payments for that term.  Fall Plan payments made to TMS (July 1 to November 1) must clear fall term charges; Spring Plan payments (December 1 to April 1) must clear spring term charges.  If the balance due on your statement will not be cleared by your remaining scheduled payments for the term, please submit a payment for the difference directly to Duke.  For more information, visit www.afford.com/duke or contact TMS at (800)722-4867.

Undergraduate students are encouraged to use the TMS Worksheet to calculate their Total TMS Budget Amount.

The deadline for enrolling in the Fall Plan is August 1.  The deadline for enrolling in the Spring Plan is January 1.

Students or parents of undergraduate students may borrow through federal or private lenders to assist with the cost of Duke.  To learn what borrowing options may be best for you:

Visit our loans page by clicking here

• Please pay by e-check – a fast and convenient method for paying your student account.  To pay by e-check, click here.

• Check payments should be mailed to:
  
  Duke University - Payment Processing Center
  PO Box 602538
  Charlotte, NC 28260-2538
  
  To ensure prompt credit to your student account, please include a copy of your bill when mailing your payment.
  
  This is our payment processing center at Wachovia (Wells Fargo) – only payments should be sent to this address.  Correspondence, scholarship checks or overnight mail sent to this address will not be processed.
  
  Your check should be:

  • Payable in US dollars to "Duke University"
  • Include your name and student account number (from your bill)
  • drawn on
    • A U.S. financial institution (such as Wachovia (Wells Fargo)), or
    • A U.S. branch of your financial institution (example: the New York City branch of Barclay's Bank PLC)

• Duke University does not accept credit or debit cards for payment of tuition & fees
• FedEx or UPS express mail** , Scholarship checks and other correspondence should be mailed to the following:
  
  Duke University Cashiering
  114 South Buchanan Boulevard
  Bay 8, Room B-103
  Box 90759
  Durham, NC 27708-0759
  
  **Please note that the US Postal Service does not deliver USPS priority/overnight mail to the Duke University Cashiering Office. For guaranteed next day receipt please use FedEx or UPS.

If your charges will be paid by an employer or other organization by check, payments should be sent to:

Duke University Cashiering
114 South Buchanan Boulevard
Bay 8, Room B-103
Box 90759
Durham, NC 27708-0759

If your employer or other organization requires a copy of your bill, please click here for information regarding sponsored billing.