Chances of a refund....

insinkerator

Im going into the fees office either tomorrow or thursday to see what the say, i just thought i might get a few opinions.

Last year, i was doing 1st year commerce and french, failed a few tests, passsed all the repeats, but one - Maths.

So i paid to repeat Maths, but it doesn't start till January, and in the meantime i have decided that i want to drop out and go back next year to B.I.S.

I'm not expecting to get my registration or capitation fee back, but it would be nice to get back the tuition fee (which seems fair as the classes haven't even started yet).

'Twould certainly help to start saving for the 7500 it will cost to do BIS next year .

So question:

What are the odds of me getting a refund?

Buceph

I have nothing to say about the refund, but I can say if you prefer IS and ICT stuff you're making the correct decision. I'm in final year in Commerce and I was planning on doing the IS modules a minor. I took the Object Orientation module last year and was planning on doing the web design and e-commerce module this year. The web design module has been cancelled, as I was the only one in the class, and there's only six full time, non-erasmus students in the E-Commerce class. And even digital marketing only has around 15 people. So things are looking bad for commerce and IS/ICT modules, especially if it continues like this.

Solitare

BIS is a fantastic course. Good luck with it.

Jay P

insinkerator wrote: »

Im going into the fees office either tomorrow or thursday to see what the say, i just thought i might get a few opinions.

Last year, i was doing 1st year commerce and french, failed a few tests, passsed all the repeats, but one - Maths.

So i paid to repeat Maths, but it doesn't start till January, and in the meantime i have decided that i want to drop out and go back next year to B.I.S.

I'm not expecting to get my registration or capitation fee back, but it would be nice to get back the tuition fee (which seems fair as the classes haven't even started yet).

'Twould certainly help to start saving for the 7500 it will cost to do BIS next year .

So question:

What are the odds of me getting a refund?

I'd say you've a pretty good chance, to be honest. Considering the course hasn't started it'd be very unfair not to give at least some of it back, if not all. You haven't availed of any college services per sé. ie, you haven't had lectures or tests or tutorials so you won't have been any kind of financial burden on the college. Also that fact that you want to do a different course next year will help you greatly.

D'Agger

Solitare wrote: »

BIS is a fantastic course. Good luck with it.

Depends on how you look at it but I strongly disagree with that! It has a good name and offers placement but regarding overall learning of IT it's not the best. I'm in final year and I can honestly say that only now are some of the subjects appealing to me - there's a number of languages that aren't even looked at, developing trends in IT are disgarded until final year, and Computer Hardware and Networking aren't covered in enough detail.