Financial Information
Registration
To attend classes at the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus it is necessary to process an official registration. All students are required to register each term in accordance with current registration procedures. Students with past due financial obligations will not be permitted to register for the next semester. Students who complete their registration after the deadline will be subject to a late registration fee.
Courses taken concurrently with a University of Maryland, Baltimore registration at another campus or institution must have program approval in advance by the appropriate University of Maryland, Baltimore officials. Off-campus registration forms are available in each dean's office and in the Office of the Registrar.
Although the University regularly mails bills to advance-registered students, it cannot assume responsibility of their receipt. If any student does not receive a bill prior to the beginning of a semester in which he or she has advance-registered, it is that student's responsibility to contact student accounting at 111 S. Greene Streeet, Suite 101, during normal business hours.
Students who register and subsequently decide not to attend must notify the Office of Student Affairs prior to the first day of instruction. If this office has not received a request for cancellation by 5:00 p.m. of the last day before instruction begins, the University will assume the student plans to attend and accepts the financial obligation.
After classes begin, students who wish to terminate their registration must contact the Office of Student Affairs. Students are liable for all charges applicable at the time of the withdrawal.
If a satisfactory settlement or agreement for settlement is not made with the business office within 10 days after a payment is due, the student is automatically barred from attendance at classes and will forfeit the other privileges of the School of Medicine.
Withdrawal
Students who wish to leave the School of Medicine at any time during the academic year are required to file a letter of resignation with the dean. The student must satisfy the authorities that he or she has no outstanding obligations to the School and must return his or her student identification card.
If the above procedures are not completed, the student will not be entitled to honorable dismissal and will forfeit the right to any refunds to which that student would otherwise be entitled. The date used in computing refunds is the date the Application for Withdrawal is signed by the dean.
Academic Standing
Students who voluntarily withdraw during an academic semester will be given no credit. Students are not permitted to resort to withdrawal in order to preclude current or impending failures. Their standing on withdrawal will be recorded at the Office of the Registrar. Students who withdraw from the medical school and later desire readmission must apply to the Committee on Admissions unless other arrangements have been made with the dean's written consent.
Refunds
Refund requests of students officially withdrawing from the school must be processed through the Office of Student Affairs. The amount of tuition and fees to be refunded to the student is dependent on time completed in the relevant semester.
Students are eligible for refunds upon withdrawal according to the following schedule:
- Withdrawal on or before the first scheduled day of class-100% refund and cancellation of registration.
- Withdrawal after the first scheduled day of class through 10% of the semester-90% refund.
- Withdrawal after the first 10% through the first 25% of the semester-50% refund.
- Withdrawal after the first 25% through the first 50% of the semester-25% refund.
- Withdrawal after the first 50% of the semester-no refund.
Withdrawing students who received financial aid to pay for the tuition and fees assessed will have refunds returned to the aid program from which the charges were paid in the following order:
- Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loan
- Federal Subsidized Stafford Loan
- Federal PLUS Loan
- Federal Perkins Loan
- Federal Pell Grant
- Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant
- Institutional Loans, HPSL, etc.
- Maryland State Scholarship Programs
- Institutional Scholarship Programs
- Private Scholarship Programs
Refund amounts over and above those amounts repaid to the various aid programs will be returned to the student. In calculating the return of federal financial aid, such return may cause a balance owed by the student to the University or to the student's lender. Any unpaid charges owed by the student as a result of the Title IV calculation will remain as the student's responsibility and will subject to collection.
Aid that has been awarded and certified before the withdrawal date may be used to pay required tuition and fees, even if it has not yet been disbursed. Federal financial aid recipients who cease to attend classes without officially withdrawing will have an unofficial withdrawal date determined for them by the financial aid office on a case-by-case basis, and that date will then be used in calculating the refund.
Leaves of Absence
Students who are in good standing may be granted a one-year leave of absence with permission from the dean. Longer leaves can be arranged only under special circumstances, with the exception of those students in the combined MD/PhD program.
Required Equipment
Dissecting Instruments: At the beginning of the first year, all freshmen must possess a complete set of dissecting instruments similar to those on display at the campus bookstore.
Laptop Computer: Entering freshmen will be required to purchase/lease a laptop computer from the University of Maryland. Information regarding specific system requirements and purchasing, leasing and financing options will be provided in June each year. Students are advised not to purchase a laptop computer outside the University.
Microscope: Microscopes will be provided by the medical school.
Other Equipment: By the second year, medical students are required to have an ophthalmoscope, otoscope, a blood pressure cuff and stethoscope. The estimated cost of these items, plus other essentials such as lab coats, is $400 to $450.
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