Tuition, Fees and Scholarships

Tuition and Fees

Students enrolled in the Professional MBA program will complete 53 credit hours. Find out the cost per credit hour by semester by visiting the UT Dallas Bursar’s Office.

The current estimated cost of the Professional MBA if you take 2 courses (6 credit hours) every fall, spring and summer and finish in 3 years is $40,000.

Students taking online courses will in addition to regular credit hour fees will also be assessed an $80 per credit hour distance learning fee by the university. For those students doing the PMBA completely online that would currently add an estimated $5,000 to the total cost of the online Professional MBA.

Tuition at UT Dallas is on a sliding scale, the more credit hours you take a semester the cheaper the credit hours are, and the sooner you finish the degree the lower the cost of the degree. UT Dallas also offers a guaranteed tuition plan, so whatever the credit hour rate is when you come into your program that will be your credit hour rate during your program.

UT Dallas offers payment plans for tuition and short term loans, for more information visit the UT Dallas Bursar’s Office website.

Financial Aid & Scholarships

In relation to financial support, in general the Jindal School of Management reserves Teaching Assistantships (TA) and Research Assistantships (RA) positions only for PhD and our Full-Time Cohort MBA students, and those are given out as part of their admissions package. We do not have that form of assistance for students in the Professional MBA program. Sometimes there is some confusion between being a “full-time” student in the Professional MBA, i.e. taking 9 or more credit hours, and being a student in our Full-Time Cohort MBA program, which is more competitive and has a completely separate admissions process.

Some Professional MBA students may work their way into a Research Assistantship (RA) or a specialized TA position requiring some technical skills and experience (e.g. advanced accounting skills, SAP experience, or advanced web design or IT skills) through contacts with faculty in the various areas after being a student for several semesters. Realistically, as a Professional MBA student, you will not receive an assistantship during your PMBA studies.

We do have the Dean’s Excellence Scholarship program for new and returning students, to which you can apply. This is our primary means of supporting our Professional MBA students financially. Again, though, it is a competitive scholarship program and is not a sure thing; for incoming students the main criterion is your GMAT/GRE score and your GPA. The scholarship not only provides you with $1,000 for the year, but also if you receive the scholarship, you qualify for in-state, Texas-resident tuition for the entire year. The scholarship program is modest you would only ever be able to get $1,000 a year from the school. The updated Dean’s Excellence scholarship application package, as well as information on all other scholarships offered by the Jindal School of Management, can be found here.

In addition to scholarships, students may apply for financial aid through the UT Dallas Financial Aid Office.

The UT Dallas Office of Financial Aid works closely with all admitted students who have completed a financial aid application and who may be eligible for loans, grants or a combination of the two, based on need. Short-term loan programs are available for international students as well.