Graduate School Cost of Attendance

Graduate Programs

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The fee amounts noted below for 2024-2025 are for tuition only and do not include fees, books, supplies or personal expenses. There is a Graduate School fee of $300 for each term you are enrolled as a student.

The cost for most graduate programs is $690/credit hour unless otherwise indicated below. 

• Business Administration, MBA
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $24,840
• Christian Ministry, MACM
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $33,810
• Counseling, M.A.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $42,090
• Creative Writing, MFA
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $31,050
• Dietetic Internship / Nutrition, M.S.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $12,420
• Divinity, M.Div.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $57,960
• Exercise Science, M.S.
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,150
• Human Services, M.A.
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,150
• Leadership, M.A.
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $22,770
• Nutrition, M.S
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $24,150
• Nursing Practice, FNP/DNP & Post-Master's DNP
  $895/credit hour; $7,500 per semester (8 semesters)
• Occupational Therapy, M.S.
  $12,500/semester; $2,500 per summer term; total tuition: $55,000 (4 full semesters and 2 summer sessions)
• Public Health, MPH
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $28,980
• Public Health (MPH) / Business Administration (MBA) - MPH-MBA Dual-Degree
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $39,330
• Physician Assistant Studies**
  $15,000/semester (program starts in spring 2026)
• Sustainability Studies, M.S.
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,150
• Teaching, MAT
  $550/credit hour; total tuition: $18,700
• Theological Studies, MTS
  $690/credit hour; total tuition: $33,120

Hickory Campus Fees

• Graduate Student General Fee: $300/semester
• Application Fee: $35 (all graduate students)
• Replacement ID/Key: $15
• Transcript Fee: $10
• Room Rate for Hickory Graduate Students: $3,400/semester

LTSS Programs Tuition & Fees

• Full-time Tuition: $22,000/year
• Overload (> 14 credits in a semester): $690/credit
• Part-time (< 9 credits in a semester): $900/credit
• Summer Semester: $690/credit
• Course Audit: $300/credit
• Internship Tuition (paid by sponsor parish): $1,000/year
• Graduate Student Fee: $300/semester
• Application Fee (all graduate students: $35

Columbia Graduate Student - Room Charges

• Beam Dormitory - Fall & Spring (Single Occupancy): $4,200/year
• 2 Bed Apartment - Fall & Spring (Single or Family): $ 9,400/year
• 2 Bed Apartment - Fall & Spring (Double Occupancy): $4,900/year
• 3-4 Bed Apartment - Fall & Spring (Triple Occupancy): $3,600/year
• Parking Permit Fee: $60/year
• Pet Fee (non cat/dog): $275/year
• Pet Fee (cat/dog): $500/year
• Summer Rate - Beam Dormitory (Single Occupancy): $215/week
• Summer Rate - 2 Bed Apartment (Single or Family): $3,250 (June-Aug.)
• Summer Rate - 2 Bed Apartment (Double Occupancy): $1,750 (June-Aug.)
• Summer Rate - 2 Bed Apartment (Double Occupancy): $1,200 (June-Aug.)

** Lenoir-Rhyne University has applied for Accreditation - Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). 

Lenoir-Rhyne University anticipates matriculating its first class in January 2026, pending achieving Accreditation - Provisional status at the June 2025 ARC-PA meeting. Accreditation - Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding accreditation-provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.

The Lenoir-Rhyne PA Studies program will not commence in the event that provisional accreditation is not received, and the enrollment deposit will be refunded in full.