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Tuition Payment Plan

Payment Plan

Having a solid plan for covering the cost of college is an important step toward graduation. Sinclair College is pleased to make the process easier for you.

Paying for the rising costs of a college education is a concern for nearly every student and family. The fact is, few of us have the resources to simply write a check for the full cost of tuition each semester. So how are you meeting your college expenses? What's your plan? Do you have one?

To help meet your educational expenses for the current term, Sinclair offers a tuition payment plan for a $25.00 per term nonrefundable enrollment fee. This is not a loan program - no interest or finance charges will be assessed by Sinclair, and there is no credit check to enroll. You must enroll in the plan every term you wish to participate. The Enrollment Fee is automatically deducted immediately from your the bank account or credit card you designate on your payment plan agreement upon enrollment. If this enrollment fee cannot be collected, your payment plan agreement may not be activated or you may be unenrolled from the payment plan.

Important Points:

  • Payments are Automatic Withdrawals from the bank account or credit card you designate on your payment plan agreement
  • Payments made outside of your scheduled installments will not stop your automatic scheduled payments/withdrawals
  • Scheduled payment dates cannot be changed
  • After enrolling, the payment Method CAN be changed by following set instructions. Please see Frequently Asked Questions for these specific instructions
  • Adding classes will increase scheduled payments
  • Withdrawing from a course(s) within the designated “drop with refund” period may lower scheduled payments BUT withdrawing from a course(s) after the designated “drop with refund” period will NOT stop or change scheduled payments or balance owed; you are still responsible for the scheduled payments and balance.
  • After enrolling, a payment plan cannot be cancelled or terminated for reasons such as but not limited to financial status, withdrawing from a course(s) after the designated "drop with refund" period or other registration activity, change of mind, etc. Cancelling or terminating a payment plan is at the discretion of Sinclair for college errors.

Forms of payment

  1. Automatic Bank Payment (ACH) – A bank-to-bank transfer of funds that you have preapproved for your expenses at Sinclair College through your tuition payment plan agreement. Payments may be made from either a checking or savings account. Payments are processed on each stated scheduled payment date on your payment plan agreement until the balance is paid in full. Please check your payment plan agreement for the scheduled payment dates.
  2. Credit Card Option –  Your scheduled installment payments will be automatically charged to the credit card you designate on your tuition payment plan agreement. Payments are processed on each stated payment date on your payment plan agreement until the balance is paid in full. Sinclair accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. Please check your payment plan agreement for the scheduled payment dates.

Information on Missed Payments

Should an automatic ACH payment or credit card payment be missed, a $30.00 Missed/Returned Payment Fee will be assessed to your student account. You will be notified by Sinclair of the missed/returned payment via email and it’s very important to read the email in a timely manner to know what action is needed to rectify the situation. Failure to make the missed payment will result in the fee as well as a hold being placed on your student account and may result in courses being removed from your schedule. The college will continue with collection efforts as needed. 

Enroll in the tuition payment plan

Beginning Fall 2020 Sinclair brought our tuition payment plan in house. Sign up for a tuition payment plan by clicking this provided link, log into my.sinclair, and once transitioned over to the Payment Center click on Payment Plans from the upper gray menu bar. -OR- Log into my.sinclair, click on the Tuition Payment Plan menu under the Student Finance Tile, and once transitioned over to the Payment Center click on Payment Plans from the upper gray menu bar. 

If you are having problems with your password to My.Sinclair, assistance is provided by Sinclair's Technical Help Desk over the Phone at 937-512-4357 (HELP) or toll free at 866-781-4357 (HELP), or via the Help Desk Assistance Form