Payment Options

Credit Card/Debit Card payments can be made through the Web Portal only at www.chaminade.edu – all major credit cards are accepted. There is a non-refundable 2.75 percent service fee per transaction (4.25 percent for international transactions). You may also do an online payment with Electronic Check. Check payments can be mailed to the following address: Chaminade University of Honolulu, Business Office, 3140 Waialae Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96816-1578. All checks and money orders should be made payable to Chaminade University of Honolulu in US Dollars and include your student ID number. A 25 dollar fee will be charged for each returned check.

You may also pay in person, at the Chaminade Business Office located in the Clarence T.C. Ching Hall, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm., Monday through Friday (except holidays), cash or check only. Hawaii banks have a six working day holding period on out-of-state checks.

To cover books and expenses for the first month, students should bring U.S Postal Service money orders or traveler’s checks in denominations of 100 dollars or less. International students should establish a relationship with a financial institution prior to arriving in Honolulu. Students receiving financial aid should bring with them sufficient funds to cover books and living expenses while forms are being processed.

Tuition Payment Plan

Enrollment in a tuition payment plan is completed via the Web Portal at www.chaminade.edu. This plan allows students to pay tuition on a monthly basis. There is a non-refundable enrollment fee of 55 dollars per term, but no monthly finance charges.

For Day Undergraduate Students, the payment plan for the fall term is from August thru November. The payment plan for the Spring term is from January thru April. There is no payment plan offered for the Summer terms.

For Online and Military Base Undergraduate program, the payment plan will be divided into three equal payments over the course of each term. First payment must be made at the time the Tuition Payment Plan is created along with the 55 dollar enrollment fee. Payments must be made by the first day of the term, at the latest, and following payments must be made exactly one month apart from each start date.

There are four terms in an academic year for the Online and Military Base Undergraduate program:

• Winter term (January to March)
• Spring term (April to June)
• Summer term (July to September)
• Fall term (October to December)

For more information on tuition payment plans, please contact the Business Office at 808-735-4756 or 808-735-4898.

Family Discount

When a first member of a family pays full-time undergraduate tuition, additional family members who are concurrently enrolled in the undergraduate program may receive a tuition discount up to 10 percent. However, if one family member is enrolled in the Nursing Program and the other family member is enrolled in the Day Undergraduate program, the discount will apply to the student with the lesser tuition in the Day Undergraduate Program. Family is defined as parents, siblings, and dependent children or spouse. For details of this and other possible discounts, please contact the Business Office at 808- 739-4634.

Chaminade University offers a 10 percent tuition discount to concurrently enrolled students of the same family in the Online and Military Base Undergraduate Program. Family members of military students who are charged the military tuition may not receive the family discount. Please check with one of our program coordinators for eligibility when registering.

Delinquent Accounts Policy

It is the policy of Chaminade University to report all students with outstanding balances to the credit bureau beginning when charges are 300 days past due and continuing until the balance is paid in full.