In order to access DePaul’s educational partnership benefits and become eligible for the partnership tuition discount, applicants are asked to indicate their current full-time employee status in the application process.
The application fee will be waived for virtually all programs. You will be required to verify your employment annually.
Graduate Cohort Applicants
Such as DePaul's Corporate Partner Cohorts or company-specific cohorts
- Applicants should select “Yes" on the graduate application.
- Applicants must select their participating employer organization, program of interest and intended start term.
- As part of the “Additional Information" tab in the application, you will be asked to enter your employer-specific information in the “Work Experience Widget".
Undergraduate Cohort Applicants
- Applicants should select their cohort organization on the undergraduate transfer/adult application.
- Applicants must also indicate their program of interest and intended start term.
- You will also be asked to enter your employer-specific information in the “Work Experience Widget".
Non-Cohort Applicants
- Please indicate “No" to the cohort question in the application.
- You will be asked to identify your academic program of interest and your intended term of entry.
- Separately, in the Additional Information (graduate) or Work Experience (undergraduate) page, you will be asked to identify your employer data.
Receive the discount if you already attend DePaul
Eligible students should go to Campus Connect, then:
- Select the Profile tile.
- Next, click Work Experience in the left-hand navigation bar.
- Click the Add Work Experience button.
- Update your current employer information by selecting from the drop-down box.
- You will be required to attach proof of your employment as instructed in the Work Experience panel. Please do not submit any password-protected documents.
- For those who are eligible, the partnership tuition discount will be applied to any remaining future academic terms.
Employees of corporate partner organizations are ineligible to receive the partnership discount if they were previously awarded admission-based scholarships or discounts as part of their program of study.
Please contact the scholarship team at ofascholarships@depaul.edu if you have any questions.