What is included in tuition and fees? 

  • All regular course work at the School of Theology
  • Approved courses in the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Limited services of the health and counseling offices while school is in session. (Health office services are available to students only.) The associate dean for community life can provide additional information about counseling services.
  • Use of the facilities of the student union & gym.
  • Support for student organizations as determined by the student government

In addition to general expenses, students will have other living expenses that will vary in accordance with their individual circumstances and household size.

For more information about the current academic year tuition and fees, please see the Catalog.

Learn about our generous financial aid program and access the financial aid application.

2024-2025 Tuition and Fees for Academic Year Degree Programs

Tuition: $19,000*
Activity Fees: $280
Meals: $350
Total: $19,630

*A person taking 12-credit hours or more per semester is considered a full-time student and will be charged full tuition and fees.

$100 Enrollment Fee is paid when the applicant accepts admission. 

University rental housing rates for seminarians range from approximately $600–$2,000 per month depending on unit's size, age, condition, and amenities.

The student must provide a copy of his or her health insurance card to the coordinator of academic affairs at registration.

Seminary student spouses may audit one course each semester, for no fee, at the School of Theology with permission of the instructor. They may also, with the approval of the dean, take one course each semester for credit at the School of Theology for a fee of $50.  Additional courses for audit or credit may be taken for the full appropriate tuition.

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Commitment to Diversity

What does it mean to be the University of the South? The answer to that question changes from one generation to the next and from one individual to the next. Being “of the South” means that we are both the beneficiaries and the critics of a rich tradition. While we are deeply invested in this region, we also engage with other communities, locally and globally. Diversity and variety—of the South and of the world—inform and underpin our institution, and all our community’s citizens must confront this question on some level.

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Inclusive Language Policy

Language matters. It shapes our sense of reality and is therefore crucial for our understanding of God and others. Through language we forge and maintain our relationships with God and one another.

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The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South is a six-year initiative investigating the university’s historical entanglements with slavery and slavery’s legacies. Our Project’s name memorializes the late Professor of History, Houston Bryan Roberson, who was the first tenured African American faculty member at Sewanee and the first to make African American history and culture the focus of their teaching and scholarship.

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