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| Notice to Students |
| Eligibility for resident student status (and the resulting avoidance of an obligation to pay non-resident tuition) is a technical matter controlled by a special North Dakota law and State Board of Higher Education guidelines. Students whose eligibility may be open to questions, especially those who have moved to North Dakota from another state, should familiarize themselves with these guidelines and their requirements regarding place of residence, voting, driver’s license, auto licenses and state income tax filing. Copies of guidelines are available at the Enrollment Services office. |
| Military personnel assigned to a military installation in this state and their dependents, dependents of instructors who live in this state and teach in any institution of higher learning in this state and the spouse of a resident of this state, are excluded from the foregoing provisions and shall be regarded as residents of this state for purposes of tuition, whether such dependents are older or younger than 18 years of age. |
| Any student who, because of unusual circumstances, is aggrieved by the above definition of a non-resident student may appeal to the State Board of Higher Education. The Board shall, if it determines the circumstances justify such action, admit such a student to the institution of higher learning as a resident for tuition purposes. The State Board of Higher Education adopted the following policies regarding the implementation of the above legislation: Any student otherwise classified as a non-resident who meets ALL of the following criteria shall be regarded as a student aggrieved by the statutory definition of a non-resident student because of unusual circumstances, and shall therefore be regarded as a resident for tuition purposes: |
| • the student has received a high school diploma from a North Dakota school or a bachelor’s degree from a North Dakota institution of higher education; |
| • the student has not subsequently established a legal residence in a state other than North Dakota; and |
| • the student is currently residing within the state of North Dakota. |
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