Verified rates: undergraduate $398 per credit with a $170 per-course resource fee, about $1,364 per standard three-credit course; master's $698 plus $195, about $2,289 per course; doctoral $810 plus $205, about $2,635. The resource fee bundles eBooks, library, tutoring services, virtual labs, and the writing and math centers, so budget per course, not per credit. Nursing's RN-to-BSN and the competency-based MBA publish reduced program rates, confirm the current figures with your counselor. The Tuition Guarantee locks your rate for your program's duration, which converts inflation risk to zero and makes the whole cost model a function of one variable: how many courses you buy, including the ones you buy twice.
The per-course table, the way budgets actually work
| Level | Per credit | Resource fee | ~3-credit course |
|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | $398 | $170 | ~$1,364 |
| Master's | $698 | $195 | ~$2,289 |
| Doctoral | $810 | $205 | ~$2,635 |
One course at a time means one invoice at a time, which is budget-friendly cash flow and dangerously readable: a bachelor's is roughly forty of those invoices, minus every one that transfer deletes.
The three leaks, and their plugs
- The retake: a failed five-week course repays its full sticker, $1,364 to $2,635, and inserts a block into the stack; first-attempt clearance through the desk costs a fraction of one
- The transferable course taken anyway: the Evaluation of Transfer Activity and Prior Learning Assessment exist to delete invoices; sweep before enrolling, per the admissions manual
- The W-grade month: 28 silent days converts to withdrawals; the ARA wire is free to satisfy and expensive to trip
Where the locked rate changes strategy
The Tuition Guarantee removes the usual argument for rushing, rates will not climb mid-degree, and replaces it with a cleaner one: at a locked price per course, the only cost variables left are course count and calendar. Course count responds to transfer and to first-attempt discipline. Calendar responds to gapless Tuesday stacking, and, in the CBE and Direct Assessment tracks, to genuine acceleration, the scoped expedite runs that math. Sixty seconds with your program's remaining course list prices your degree both ways; send it and we return the arithmetic free.
Price the stack, then shorten it
Send your program and remaining courses. The invoice math, both paces, comes back free.
Sources and verification
Facts on this page come from official and independent sources, and anything that matters is worth checking against the originals:
- www.phoenix.edu: the University of Phoenix official site, the primary source for program, tuition, and policy facts
- www.hlcommission.org: Higher Learning Commission, the institutional accreditor
- www.ccneaccreditation.org: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the nursing accreditor
- apastyle.apa.org: APA Style, the official style authority behind the formatting rules