Frequently Asked Questions and Payment Policy Information

Your first point of contact is Marquette Central in person, by phone or email. You can always contact Marquette Central through the Contact Form.

Marquette Central
1250 W Wisconsin Ave
PO Box 1881, Zilber Hall, Suite 121
Milwaukee WI 53201
Phone: (414) 288-4000
Fax: (414) 288-4080
Email: marquettecentral@marquette.edu

CheckMarq provides Guest Access so that others can view grades, bursar, and/or financial aid information and make payments. With the guest username and password, individuals selected by the student, such as parents, guardians, and spouses, are able to monitor a student’s grades, financial aid, and/or tuition balances and payments. A student can grant Guest Access from CheckMarq Student Home. Select the Profile tile and  click or tap the Setup Guest Access link. Follow the steps required to enroll. When granting access to view Bursar information, students are given the option of adding up to two email addresses outside of the Marquette Email account to receive notification when an electronic bill is available to view online. Please note: the student must update the password, just like their own at least every 180 days.

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. Further information about FERPA can be found on the Department of Education site, and Marquette University’s policy can be found on the Office of the Registrar site.

To meet FERPA requirements and protect your privacy, the following is required to communicate with us about your information:

• Student Marquette Central visits: require a photo ID, or if one not provided, the MUID and MCAN numbers.
• A person visiting Marquette Central on behalf of a student: must provide the student’s MUID and MCAN.
• Email: We must email your Marquette email account when student specific information is being provided. If you email a question from another email account, our response will be to your Marquette email account unless we are only providing general, not student specific information.
• Phone calls: require your Marquette ID number and your MCAN.
• Virtual Appointments: require your Marquette ID number and your MCAN. 

In order to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), students and their families must be able to verify their identity when contacting Marquette Central for assistance.

The Marquette Central Access Number (MCAN) is a four-digit number used in conjunction with the nine-digit Marquette ID number to help Marquette staff identify people authorized to receive information regarding a student’s account. (The MCAN is NOT associated with the online Guest Access process.)

• Students can find the MCAN by accessing the CheckMarq Student Home and noting the MCAN on the Profile tile.
• A student may grant authorization for others to receive financial aid, bursar or student record information (excluding grades and schedules) by providing the MCAN and the MUID.
• The MCAN can be changed by the student in CheckMarq at any time.
• Students should be careful when disclosing their MCAN and/or MUID numbers to help protect personal information about their finances and academic records.

Watch this video to learn how to check for holds via CheckMarq.

The following holds are placed by our office:

• Registration and Diploma Hold: This hold prevents a student from registering for classes, making some changes to their schedules or getting their diploma. It is only removed when the account is paid in full or the monthly payment plan is on budget and payments are up to date. 
• Credit Hold — Do not issue refund: This type of hold prevents a student from receiving a refund check. It does not affect a student's registration.
• Payment Plan — Do not issue refund hold: This hold is placed when the student or the parent is enrolled on the payment plan. It prevents a refund check from running; it does not affect a student's registration.
• EOP — Do not issue refund: Students in the EOP program cannot receive a refund check unless it is requested by the EOP office. A student in EOP with any kind of hold placed by our office must speak to EOP about the hold.
• Do not issue refund — Dropped credit hours: This hold means that a student dropped a course or courses and their financial aid must be reviewed. They are not eligible for a refund check until their aid has been reviewed by the Office of Student Financial Aid.
• NOR—Multiple Pay Lines: This hold means that an anticipated refund is coming from multiple sources and needs to be resolved by the Office of the Bursar before the refund is issued.

Our office places a registration and diploma hold on all accounts with past due balances. This hold can only be removed when the account is paid in full or the monthly payment plan is on budget and payments are up to date. 

 In order to determine why financial aid may not be on your Bursar bill or is not disbursing to your Student account, please review the "Top 11 Reasons Why Your Financial Aid Is Not Appearing on Your Bill." 

Registration and diploma holds are only removed when the account is paid in full or the monthly payment plan is on budget and payments are up to date. 

The Office of the Bursar accepts payment in office, online, or by mail. The listing for acceptable methods of payment can be found on the Marquette Central website.

The Office of the Bursar accepts international payments through Flywire.

No, the Office of the Bursar bills per semester, so we are unable to accept a payment for an upcoming term that has not yet been billed. If there is an overpayment made on an account, the student would be refunded the credit.

No, credit/debit card payments can only be made online.

There are no fees for making an e-payment from a checking or savings account. There is a 2.5% convenience fee that is charged if you make a credit or debit card payment.

Refunds generate on Mondays and Thursdays. (Weeks with a university holiday may require a different schedule.) Students will receive an email notification in their Marquette Email account when a refund has generated.

Marquette Central recommends students sign up for direct deposit for their refund, which can be done in CheckMarq Student Home by selecting the Student Account tile and clicking or tapping Direct Deposit.

A paper check can be picked up at Marquette Central by the student.  The student will need a picture ID. 

Student's can request their refund check be mailed by e-mailing from their E-Marq account.  Please include the address where the check should be mailed.

All checks not picked up within 3 weeks will be mailed to the campus address if not enrolled in direct deposit.

No.  

The Office of the Bursar will generate a refund on an EOP account after we receive a request to do so from the EOP office.

If a student drops a course, any refunds owed will be based on the official date of withdrawal as verified by the college office. The Office of the Bursar lists the withdrawal schedules online for each semester. Please note that if an undergraduate student drops a course and their remaining course load for the semester remains at 12 credits or above, there is no change to their tuition rate.

Contact Marquette Central to discuss. We will be able to verify if the check has been cashed or not, and issue a new one if needed.

Contact Marquette Central to coordinate the return of the refund and the reduction of the loan amounts requested for the semester.

The email is sent as a reminder to cash the check that is getting close to its stale date, which is 90 days after the issue date. The refund check reads “Void after 90 days” so banks generally won’t cash them after the stale date. Both the issue date and stale date are listed in the email, and you have until the stale date to cash the check. The check becomes non-negotiable after that date. If you receive the email, please cash the check by the stale date listed in the email. If the stale date has passed, the funds will either be issued back to the Title IV financial aid source, applied to other outstanding charges, or a new refund check may be issued, depending on the type of payment that caused the refund.

It is Marquette policy that a refund will not be processed until the balance is paid in full. Since the payment plan pays down your balance, the account is not considered paid in full until the last payment posts to the account.

If you requested financial aid, your financial will apply to the balance before any refund would be processed.

All bills are electronic and are available to view on a student’s CheckMarq account, or on a Guest Access account that a student has created. An email notice is sent to the student Marquette Email account and any Guest Access email when a bill is available to view online.

Watch this video to learn how to look up your account balance via CheckMarq.

Initial billing statements are available for all registered students in mid-July for the fall term; in early December for the spring term; and in early May for the summer term.

Undergraduate students are charged the fulltime tuition rate if they are registered for 12 credits or above. If a student is registered less than 12 credits, they are charged the per credit hour rate.

All full-time undergraduate students are assessed the following mandatory fees each term: the Student Activity Fee, the UPass fee, the Recreation and Wellness fee, the Medical Clinic fee and the Technology fee.

• The Student Activity Fee is used by the student government to fund different events for students on campus.
• The UPass fee allows students to utilize the Milwaukee County Transit System throughout the term.
• The Recreation and Wellness fee, passed through a referendum in March 2016 by Marquette University Student Government, will support the implementation of a new recreation and wellness center.
• The Medical Clinic fee enables students to use the clinic on campus. Please note that the Medical Clinic fee is not a form of health insurance.
• The Technology fee contributes to the purchase, implementation, staffing and support of information technology that directly benefits students and the academic learning environment.

The student fees are mandatory; they cannot be waived from a student account.

Students enrolled in laboratory sections can expect to be charged laboratory fees per class. Laboratory fees help ensure that students are receiving the best and most appropriate technology to enhance their learning and prepare them for competitive careers.

Undergraduate students who are registered less than fulltime are billed at a per credit hour rate. Please refer to the Rate Guide to find current tuition rates.

No, tuition is charged per credit hour. The tuition rate is listed in the Rate Guide.

A full-time undergraduate student is charged a flat rate of tuition for registration. Changes will only occur if you drop below 12 credits prior to the end of the tuition adjustment period. The remaining tuition charge is based on the Withdrawal Schedule. Please be aware that dropping below 12 credits may also impact your financial aid.

A student can view their Account Activity in their CheckMarq account to see if aid has disbursed. In order to determine why financial aid may not be on your bursar bill or is not disbursing on to your bursar account, please review the "Top 12 Reasons Why Your Financial Aid is not Appearing on you Bill"

Per the Bursar payment policy, if an account has a past due balance that is paid after November 1^st for the fall term, or after March 1^st for the spring term, a $100.00 Block Removal Fee is assessed at the time that the payment in full is received.

No. Financial aid is term-specific. For example, fall term financial aid can only be used to pay fall term charges.

New bills do not generate if there is a change to financial aid. To see the most up-to-date amounts due for the semester, log in to CheckMarq and navigate to CheckMarq Student Home > Student Account > Account Balance.

Work Study awards are earned by working for eligible employers and collecting a biweekly pay check based on rate of pay and hours worked up to the amount of the award. These awards are not applied to Bursar accounts.

Contact your 529 education savings plan provider to let them know you would like to use the funds to make a payment. You will need to provide them with the payment address for the Office of the Bursar. The provider will typically issue a check directly to Marquette for the amount that is requested or you are eligible to use.

If this is the first time that you have used College Illinois, contact them directly to inform them that you are going to be starting at Marquette. College Illinois will then send Marquette your information, and we bill them based on their published per credit hour rate after the end of the late registration period for a semester. College Illinois will send Marquette the funds due from them in early October for the fall term, and in early March for the spring.

Information regarding employee remission can be found on the Marquette Central website. If a dependent student is eligible for remission as determined by the Human Resources office, the Office of the Bursar will have the credit automatically posted to a student account. A spouse, part time faculty member, or part time employee will need to submit a remission form to the Office of the Bursar at the beginning of an academic year to have the benefit applied to their account. 

If your employer will be paying your tuition at the beginning of the semester, the Office of the Bursar will accept any vouchers or guarantee of payment from you or your employer. We will post this amount to your account as a third party payment. Any amounts remaining due after the third party credit are the responsibility of the student to pay by the published billing due date for the semester.

Yes. The Office of the Bursar will not enter a third party contract with an employer or outside organization if they will not be paying the tuition at the beginning of the term. A student will be responsible for any amounts due by the published due date. Marquette Central does provide tuition reimbursement verifications for students who need to provide proof of classes taken, grades, and/or amounts paid to their employer.

You can fill out a verification of enrollment/tuition form. Forward the completed request to Marquette Central for completion. Once received, it is completed within three business days, and is available for pickup or can be mailed.

Room and food rates can be found on the Rate Guide on the Marquette Central website. You may also contact the Office of Residence Life. Contact the University Apartments and Off-campus Student Services office for help determining the apartment (Campus Town, Gilman, Frenn, McCabe) rates.

Please contact the Office of Residence Life for questions/details on housing damage charges.

Yes, students who are not living in the dorms are eligible to have a food plan. Contact the Office of Residence Life for more information.

You will need to contact Office of Residence Life. 

orl@marquette.edu or 414-288-7208

MarquetteCASH can be added to your MarquetteCard online at:

marquettecard.com   For more questions about MarquetteCASH contact the card office at 414-288-2273.

No, there is no additional charge for more than 18 credits, but you may need the approval of your college.

You will continue to receive monthly statements from our office even if you are on the payment plan. You may use them to monitor any changes in the student's account balance and to monitor our receipt of your Nelnet payments. New charges on a student's account will not result in an automatic contract adjustment. You will need to contact Marquette Central to adjust the budget for the term.

Yes, you may still enroll. You will owe the $35 semester enrollment fee, plus any payments that have passed.

Please view the deadline to enroll on the Nelnet website.

Please feel free to contact Marquette Central at any time during business hours (8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CT Monday-Friday) with your budgeting questions.

Yes, you may certainly adjust your payments. Please contact our office directly at (414) 288-4000 to request that your contract be reduced. Your contract will be adjusted and the new amount will be reflected in next month's Nelnet bill. (For example, if you have already received the February bill, you still owe the amount due on that bill. Your contract will then be adjusted for the remaining 3 months.)

Payment options include ACH or credit card (an additional fee will be assessed).

You cannot reactivate your terminated contract. You will need to enroll in another plan and pay the $35 enrollment fee again.

You will need to budget without your financial aid. When you do receive notification of your aid package, you may decrease your contract to reflect the amount of your aid.

There are no payment plans available for the summer. Payment is due in full by the published due date.

Students and parents cannot sign up for the MMPP in our office. You can enroll online, or by phone 1 (800) 609-8056.

It is Marquette policy that a refund will not be processed until the balance is paid in full. Since the payment plan pays down your balance, the account is not considered paid in full until the last payment posts to the account.

If you requested financial aid, your financial will apply to the balance before any refund would be processed.