Tuition Due Dates & Payment Plan Options
Access to account activity and current balance is available on-line only by signing into the myDACC/Self Service portal. Payments are accepted at the Cashier's office via cash, check, Master Card, Visa, Discover or American Express (service fees apply for credit card payments). Students may also pay by signing into the myDACC/Self Service portal to make a payment or sign up for the payment plan. Instructions can be found on the Current Students webpage under General Information. A student's billing account is considered financially cleared and paid timely if financial aid has been awarded, scholarships accepted, or the payment plan has been initiated by ten days before classes start.
We also offer a Past Due Payment Plan through Nelnet that allows a student to sign up for the payment plan and enroll in classes for the next semester even though they owe a past due balance. This is also accessed by signing into the student's myDACC/Self Service account.
More information about Nelnet Business Solutions by going to the Payment Plans page on our website: https://dacc.edu/payment-plans.
NOTE: Students enrolled in the Payment Plan who later qualify and receive any type of student aid (including loans) will have these funds applied towards any balance due on the payment plan at the time the student aid is disbursed. The student will receive an updated statement of these actions.
See below for additional ways to pay for college:
Financial Aid
Scholarships
Financial Responsibility
By registering for classes at DACC, the student accepts full financial responsibility for payment of all amounts due by the applicable deadlines. The student understands that failure to pay past-due debt may result in referral of the account to a collection agency and will result in restrictions on the student's ability to register for future classes and other College services. DACC actively pursues all outstanding balances and will use any and all means necessary as allowed by state and federal law to collect all amounts due to the College.
In compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the College would also like you to know that your registration and providing your cell/home phone number(s) and any subsequent change in contact numbers or other means of communication, including, but not limited to text messages or electronic mail at the address provided by you to DACC is a means for DACC or any debt collection agency hired by the College to contact you directly or through an automated or predictive dialing system or prerecorded messaging in an effort to contact you to recover any unpaid obligation incurred hereunder, or as otherwise determined in the event of default to any obligation identified.
Refunds
All refunds will be issued through the Business Office periodically throughout the semester. No refund of tuition or fees is made when a student is expelled for disciplinary reasons. Refunds for dropping individual courses will be made at the same rate as for withdrawal from school. Refunds may be processed by check or posted to credit card.
All tuition and course fee refunds are based upon total monies due the College. If a student officially withdraws from a course during the registration period or prior to the 10% completion date, they shall be entitled to a receive a refund of 100% of tuition and course fees paid or payable. The exception to this policy is when the Department of Education's Federal Refund Policy must be applied to those students whose costs are paid by student financial aid funding. It the students' responsibility to drop classes. A soldier ordered into service by the Governor is eligible for a full refund or credit if they are unable to attend college for a period of 7 days or more.
State and/or Accrediting Agency Refund Rule
The State of Illinois has not established a mandated refunding rule for community colleges.
Federal Refund Rule (Return of Title IV Funds)
The Department of Education mandates that unearned federal financial aid funds are returned to the specific programs if a student withdraws from a semester. The amount of the refund is determined by the days of the semester that the student was in attendance verses the remaining days (after withdrawal) until the semester ends.
Students are notified by mail of their debt to the Department of Education. This debt must be paid in a timely manner in order for the student to receive future financial aid.