Dependent Tuition Waiver — Tuition AND Fees, No Month Cap Stated
A child, stepchild, spouse, widow or widower of a resident veteran who was killed in action, died of service-connected causes, holds a 100% service-connected disability, or was captured or missing attends the university-system institutions free of tuition and fee charges through a bachelor's degree or certificate.
Verified August 27, 2026
What this benefit is
A child, stepchild, spouse, widow or widower of a resident veteran who was killed in action, died of service-connected causes, holds a 100% service-connected disability, or was captured or missing attends the university-system institutions free of tuition and fee charges through a bachelor's degree or certificate.
What it's worth: Free of tuition and fee charges at university-system institutions, bachelor's or certificate — aviation flight charges excluded
- The waiver covers tuition AND fee charges at North Dakota university-system institutions, through a bachelor's degree or a certificate.
- Aviation flight charges are excluded — the one carve-out, and an expensive one if you are studying to fly.
- The qualifying routes under N.D.C.C. 15-10-18.2 and 18.3 are: a veteran killed in action; a veteran who died of service-connected causes; a veteran holding a 100% service-connected disability; and a veteran captured or missing in action.
- Eligible dependants are the child, stepchild, spouse, widow or widower of a qualifying resident veteran.
- No month cap is stated in the statute — the limit is the degree or certificate, not a period of entitlement.
Who is entitled to it
- The veteran holds a 100% service-connected disability — the living-veteran route.
- The veteran meets the resident-veteran definition.
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How to claim it
- 1Check the resident-veteran definition — it has three doors: born in the state and lived there until service; six months of residency before service with voter registration; or five years of state residency before requesting the waiver.
- 2The waiver covers tuition AND fees for an undergraduate degree or certificate — with one carve-out named in terms: aviation flight charges are not included.
- 3Campus pages circulate a 45-month cap. The department's own page states none — eligibility runs "for so long as the dependent is eligible." If a campus imposes the cap, ask it to point at the authority.
- Form
- Dependent tuition waiver application via the institution
- File with
- The campus veterans or financial aid office, with department certification
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- Annual
- Claimed once a year.
Sources
- authority · published policyDepartment of Veterans Affairs — ND Dependent Tuition Waiver (N.D.C.C. §§15-10-18.2, 15-10-18.3)
Why only one source type: The department's own page states the qualifying routes, the beneficiary classes, the tuition-and-fees scope and the aviation carve-out.
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