You are required to pay your fees by the due date outlined on your Student Financial Statement, available through Sydney Student. We will also send you an email reminder to your University email address when you have fees due, so make sure you are checking your University student email account.

Domestic students with a Commonwealth supported place

If you are enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place (CSP) your enrolment as a CSP will be cancelled if:

• you do not complete a Request for Commonwealth support and HECS-HELP form by the relevant census date, or
• you do not pay your fees by the due date.

If your enrolment is cancelled there is no automatic right of re-entry into your units for the semester; your re-enrolment must be approved by the University.

If you are approved to re-enrol for the semester and are approved by the University to do so, you will no longer have a Commonwealth supported place and will only be able to re-enrol as a ‘non-award’ student which means that you will be required to pay the full fees for your enrolled units upfront, rather than the subsidised student contribution. The fees for non-award study are significantly higher than the student contribution amount that you pay in a Commonwealth supported place. You will also be required to pay an administration fee in addition to your fees.

International students and domestic fee-paying students

If you haven’t paid your fees by the due date, a sanction will be applied to your student record, preventing you from accessing your results or your transcript until your fees are paid in full. You will also be unable to enrol in any future teaching periods, or if you have already enrolled, your enrolment for those teaching periods will be cancelled if your debt remains unpaid. Your debt may also be referred to a third-party debt collection agency in line with University’s Student Debtor Sanctions policy 2014.

If you are a student visa holder and your enrolment is cancelled by the University due to non-payment of fees, your electronic Confirmation of Enrolment (eCoE) will be cancelled and the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will be notified. The eCoE cancellation means you may be subject to visa cancellation by DHA.

To avoid sanctions and enrolment cancellation you should make your payment as early as possible as it can take up to five business days for a payment to be reflected in Sydney Student. Once payment is received in your University account, it can take up to five business days for sanctions to be lifted from your account.

Having a sanction lifted

Once payment is received in your University account, it can take up to five business days for sanctions to be lifted from your account.