Employer tuition benefits
Level up your career while leveraging available employer tuition benefits. Find out if you can save money on your degree while building skills employers want.
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Level up your career while leveraging available employer tuition benefits. Find out if you can save money on your degree while building skills employers want.
We work with hundreds of organizations to help their employees earn degrees at a reduced cost. See if yours is on the list. Type in the first 3 letters of your employer’s name to find out!Â
U.S. organizations are increasingly focused on workforce skills. According to the 2026 ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ Career Institute® special report on skills-based hiring, 82% of hiring stakeholders said their organization’s hiring process is shifting toward a more skills-based approach.
We’ve identified career-relevant skills and integrated them into our undergraduate and graduate-level degrees, certificates and individual courses.
Choose from 100+ programs built around skills employers want and enhance your value with your current employer, earning career-relevant skills in weeks — not years you don’t have.Â
Here, your education may be online, but you’re never on your own. At ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½, you get highly rated 1-on-1 support, 14 hours a day, 5 days a week and have access to online student resources 24/7.
Plus, your academic counselors, who are with you every step of the way, have earned a 5-star rating from 86% of our surveyed students.[2]
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BSB/M 2012, MBA 2022. See how he did it.
Learn new skills and make plans to enhance your career at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½. Take advantage of more than 100 flexible online programs aligned to 300+ real-world careers.
Whether you qualify for employer tuition benefits, tuition reimbursement, assistance or not, you have our commitment to help you make the most of your education.
Students can receive up to $5,250 in tuition reimbursement tax-free from their employer each calendar year. Declarations of tuition reimbursement on income taxes should be reviewed and discussed with a tax professional.
Employer tuition benefits shouldn’t prevent you from receiving loans and grants. However, they may impact your financial aid.
If the entire cost of tuition, books and fees aren’t covered by the benefit, you may be able to obtain financial aid to cover the difference.
Be sure to include any employer tuition assistance as part of your financial aid application since it may reduce or limit your aid.
Confirm that there’s an alliance agreement between your employer and ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ that includes tuition benefits. If there is, you’ll be able to review the benefits that your employer offers before you enroll at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½.
Reach out to your employer’s HR department. Let them know that you want to enroll and use your organization’s tuition benefits.
Your eligibility requirements are set by your employer. Eligibility may be dependent on employment at the company for a certain amount of time. Check with your HR department.
It depends on your employer. In general, eligibility for employer educational assistance is dependent on criteria your employer sets.
For instance, you may be eligible based on the program and number of credit hours you take within an academic year. Whether you want to enroll in undergraduate or graduate degrees, or certificate programs can also impact eligibility.
You may also be required to be a full-time employee. Check with your company’s HR department.
Tuition savings aren’t solely dependent on employment with an employer that has an alliance with ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½. At ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½, we have many ways to save.
Evaluations of relevant life and work experience, scholarships and eligible transfer credits from prior college experience are all options to lower your costs. Explore more savings options on our Savings Explorer page.
[1] June-July 2025 UOPX Biennial Alumni Survey of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral alumni who reported graduating in 2024 or 2025 (1,542 respondents, 5% response rate).
[2] Student End of Course Survey, September 2024-August 2025 (207,242 respondents, 21% response rate).