Syracuse University is a semester institution. Always choose Semester Hours regardless of the length of your course(s) so that your TA application can be approved for the maximum Mil TA payout rate of $250 per credit hour.
The academic credits earned in short intensive sessions (Maymester, 6-week, 8-week, etc.) are worth just as much as academic credits earned in a traditional 16-week residential term.
When course dates align, please organize your TA application by the actual date range of your courses* and list the date rage accurately. This helps the SU Bursar third party billing team to bill the military timely and ensures that the Registrar is pinged for grades by the military after your course has ended.
*Note: Boilerplate instructions from your branch of the service or ESO may ask that you use the start and end dates of the entire semester, but that doesn’t take into account that most Mil TA users at Syracuse University are matriculated in the College of Professional Studies for online undergraduate programs, with most courses offered in 6-week or 8-week sessions.
Main Campus students can accurately use the overall term start/end dates in the Fall and Spring terms, but the Summer term consists of multiple sessions with varying start/end dates.
Course dates are listed in MySlice at:
- Class Search Function in Myslice:
After starting a search and getting Search Results, click the section link of the course to access course details. - Your Bursar account (Billing/Payments tile) in MySlice:
A student bursar account is created by an initial transaction (usually an advance payment or the calculation of tuition for the first term enrolled at SU).
Once you have a bursar account and are enrolled in a course, you can access your course start/end dates and financial drop deadline via the Financial Deadlines link on the menu in your bursar account.
Please list Course Catalog Number and Course Title on your TA application along with the Units. The Course Catalog Number and Title will remain stable across sessions & terms. Do not list the section number for class number, as those vary by session and term.
In the Class Search function, the Course Catalog Number and Course Title are listed in the blue bar at the top of each search result:
In the Financial Deadline section of your bursar account, the Course Catalog number and Course Title are listed in bold above the other course details.
Not necessarily, and not as early as approved TA documents may be available to the student:
- US Air Force: Approved TA documents become accessible to the SU Bursar third party billing team via the Academic Institution Portal shortly before the start date listed on TA document.
- US Army: Approved TA documents become accessible to the SU Bursar third party billing team via the Academic Institution Portal shortly before the start date listed on TA document.
- US Marine Corps: No independent access. Students may upload their approved TA documents to the NCMIS AIM portal.
- US Navy: No independent access. Students may upload their approved TA documents to the NCMIS AIM portal.
- US Coast Guard: No independent access. Students may upload their approved TA documents to the NCMIS AIM portal
College of Professional Studies students should always email PDFs of their approved TA documents to the CPS Bursar/Registrar Office at bursareg@syr.edu (and please copy the SU Bursar third party billing team at agencybilling@syr.edu ).
All other SU students: please email your approved TA docs to agencybilling@syr.edu
Please turn in TA documents as soon as they are available to you.
The SU Bursar third party billing team waits until at least the financial drop deadline has passed before we bill your branch of the military for TA.
Most of the time we wait until the course is 40% complete before we invoice. We wait this long to ensure that we won’t have to process any refunds of Mil TA payments (under DOD rules, any Mil TA payment is forfeit if the student drops or withdraws from the course before it is 40% complete).
It doesn’t matter. The SU Bursar third party billing team contributes to accurate student billing by posting sponsored program credits before producing student billing statements for College of Professional Studies students and grad students.
A sponsored program credit isn’t payment per se, but it moves the Mil TA receivable off the student bursar account and over to our Federal Mil TA general ledger account to enable the Mil TA billing & payment process to happen behind the scenes, at its own pace (and we can bill the student accurately in the meantime).
Naturally, we adjust sponsored program credits as needed (for instance, if the student drops or withdraws from the approved course before its 40% complete).
For Main Campus undergraduates who are prebilled for Fall and Spring terms before TA applications are approved, please contact the SU third party billing team at agencybilling@syr.edu and we’ll work with you.