Additional Costs

The curricula of most degree programs in the school involve expenses not covered by tuition for the academic year. These may include the cost of summer tuition, liability insurance, books, off-campus housing, transportation, and equipment. Such costs apply to summer internships, which may be elected by students in clinical exercise science, exercise science, leisure services, sport management, sports information and communication, and therapeutic recreation.

· Athletic training majors must pay for malpractice liability insurance as juniors and seniors, as must some interns in clinical exercise science and therapeutic recreation.

· Clinical science/physical therapy majors must pay tuition, room, board, and other expenses associated with 8 credits of coursework taken in Rochester, New York, during the summer prior to the junior (third) year. Clinical science/physical therapy majors must pay additional tuition for 3 credits of clinical affiliation during the summer following the junior year and 6 credits of clinical affiliation during the summer at the end of the graduate year, in addition to other associated costs for each clinical affiliation (room, board, transportation, and liability insurance).

· Health services administration majors must pay tuition for summer internships following the sophomore and junior years. Health policy studies majors must pay tuition for the summer internship following the junior year.

· Occupational science/occupational therapy majors must pay tuition, room, board, and other expenses associated with 8 credits of coursework taken in Rochester, New York, during the summer prior to the junior (third) year. Occupational therapy majors must pay additional tuition for 6 credits of fieldwork during the summer before and 10 credits of fieldwork following coursework in the graduate year, and they are responsible for associated room, board, book, transportation, liability insurance, and other expenses. They are also responsible for the cost of transportation and liability insurance during practicums in their last two undergraduate years and during their graduate study and fieldwork.

· Speech-language pathology and audiology majors are required to furnish their own recorders for use in clinical work.

· Those students majoring in teaching students with speech and language disabilities are responsible for transportation and housing costs associated with their student teaching placement and the cost of liability insurance.

· Therapeutic recreation and leisure services majors are responsible for the cost of liability insurance when enrolled in fieldwork and internship courses. Occasionally, students are charged an additional one-time fee to cover course expenses related to equipment or facility rental.

For more information on student expenses, see p. 283.