Payment Options
- In-Person
- Payment During Registration
- Mail payment directly to Baruch
- SallieMae (TuitionPay Plan)
- Drop Box
- Via the Internet
- Payments Made That Incur Exchange Rate Reductions
In Person:
Students who wish to make their registration payment in person may do so at the Bursar Office. The Bursar Office is located at 151 East 25th Street, Room H-810. Make check(s) payable to Baruch College. If you are using credit card the person who signed the back of the card must be present to sign the receipt. Payments for transcripts, exam fees, deferment payments can also be made at this office.
Payment During Registration
The physical location of the Bursar Office limits how many students and staff members that can be located in the area. We are trying to avoid long lines due to students asking questions at the payment window where the main purpose is to accept a payment. We use a separate site to handle questions about deferments, TuitionPay and other assorted registration issues. This way, student inquiries are answered without delaying other students who are ready to pay their tuition. When students are sent to the Bursar Office, they should be prepared to pay the amount that is stated on their registration bill (CASH DUE). This ensures that once the students reach the payment window they can be processed efficiently and quickly. Students who go to the Financial Aid Office to have their Financial Aid added to their bill will receive a new registration bill immediately without having to go to the registration bill printing location.
Mail payment directly to Baruch
You may mail your registration payment directly to the Bursar Office. The address is , One Bernard Baruch Way, New Your, N.Y., 10010, Bursar Office ,Room H-810. Please allow ample time for mailing delays. You can periodically check E-SIMS to see if your payment was processed.
Please allow at least a week before your payment due date to mail a payment to the school. Paying to express mail a check does not help get your payment processed faster. All mail deliveries are sent to the college's mail room, they are not delivered immediately to the Bursar" Office. The Bursar's Office may not actually receive the check for a day or two. Many checks are express mailed one or two days before the student's payment due date. This increases the risk of the students registration being cancelled.
TuitionPay Plan:
Tuition pay, administered by SallieMae, is a pre-payment plan that allows students to spread their tuition payments over a five-month period (two months before the semester and three after the semester starts). During Registration payment periods, TuitionPay representatives are on campus to assist students. You may also mail an application to TuitionPay before Baruch's registration payment period starts (before January for the spring and before August for the fall semesters). If you wish to contact TuitionPay you can call 1-888-268-CUNY or access their web site at http://www.tuitionpay.com/CUNY. TuitionPay is available in the fall and spring semesters only!
To help avoid students from being cancelled due to incorrect TuitionPay contract amounts, the Bursar Office will change the TuitionPay contract amount for any student who has an outstanding tuition balance that is not covered by the original TuitionPay contract amount. TuitionPay will be informed of the increase to the student's plan amount and adjust the student's monthly bill accordingly. For students who have setup automatic withdrawals from their bank account with TuitionPay, the monthly withdrawals will be increased to reflect the change in the amount that will be withdrawn as a result of the modification to the students TuitionPay contract amount.
NOTE: Academic Management Services collects registration payments for Baruch College. They are not involved in Baruch's Registration process. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that Baruch has recorded their payment. In the past, students believed that once TuitionPay received their payment, their registration was protected. This is not the case. If you mail a payment to TuitionPay within a few days of your due date it is very possible your registration would be cancelled even though TuitionPay has received your payment. This happens because there are processing delays before payment information is transmitted to Baruch. During registration payment periods, students must setup their TuitionPay plan in person so that the TuitionPay representatives can forward the information to the Bursar immediately. You cannot mail your application to TuitionPay during the Baruch's registration payment period.
If students choose to use the TuitionPay plan they are required to pay on a monthly basis (two months before the semester and three months during the semester). There is a $18 application fee required to join TuitionPay. TuitionPay also charges a $15 late fee when students do not pay the required monthly payment by the monthly due dates TuitionPay has setup.
Drop box:
If a student cannot make it to the school during the normal office hours, the student can deposit his payment in the Bursar Drop box. This box is located on the 1st floor of the 25th street building (just past the Library steps). Students can only drop off credit card or check payments. Please do not deposit cash into this box!
Payments over the Internet
Students are now able to make payments by credit card using E-SIMS. Credit Card payments using E-SIMS must be for the full amount of the student’s balance due. Partial payments are not accepted. During our registration payment periods, the credit card payment option will be available from 4:00AM through 10:30PM everyday. Due to system maintenance, the availability of the payment option may be limited (startup may be at 9:00AM instead of 4:00AM) on a periodic basis.
Internet payments are only available for current semester's balance due. Student's cannot make payments against prior semesters or installment payments based on a deferment the student may have received for the current semester. After late registration is over for any of Baruch's semesters, payment using E-SIMS will not be available.
If a student makes a payment and receives the following message;
"We were not able to post your credit card payment to the SIMS database. The charges have been reversed and credited to your account. Please try again later. Your reference number for this transaction is: 520008458c"
This means that the credit card that the student used to make a payment was initially charged but the payment could not be posted to the student's balance due on E-SIMS,however, the system automatically reversed the charge by issuing a credit to the credit card account. If the student checks the transaction history for the credit card that the student used, the student may only see the charge. This does not mean that the credit was not processed. Credit card authorization systems traditionally do not credit an account for three to five days, even though the charge was processed immediately. If a student receives a credit card statement from the card issuer and the credit is not on the transaction list, please contact the Bursar‘s Office and supply us with a copy of the statement.
If a student tries to make a payment and receives a message that their card was "declined", do not retry the card. Each time the card is declined the credit card authorization system will freeze the payment amount that was declined for a few days and which reduces the amount of the "available credit". Also, do not try to use the same card at the college within a three day period. The card will only be declined again because the same authorization system is used on E-SIMS and in the Bursar’s Office. If a credit card used by a student is declined, their best course of action is to contact the organization that issued the credit card to determine what the problem is. If the card issuer instructs the owner of the credit card to try the transaction again, the student can then sign on to E-SIMS and try to make the payment again.
Payments Made That Incur Exchange Rate Reductions
Students who make a non cash or credit card payment towards tuition and fees that subsequently incurs a reduction in the value of the payment due to currency exchange rates will be billed to reimburse Baruch. This occurs when the payment was not made in US dollars or from a foreign bank account.
Bank Checks, Money Orders, Personal Checks and Drafts should be in US dollars and drawn on a bank that has a branch in the Untied States.
