Payment Methods

PELA accepts the following methods of payment:

• Cash
• Check
• Credit card
• Money order
• Wire transfer
• Online payment

Extra Fees

PELA does charge the following extra fees:

• 3% online credit card payment fee
• $30 wire/bank/WISE transfer fee
• $45 Start Date Deferral Fee
• $95 Reinstatement Request Fee

Contact PELA for more details.

Tuition Refund Policies

No refund is given for a 4-week term that has already begun.

Refunds of a student’s unused tuition are granted, per the following rules:

• If enrollment is canceled before the first day of the student's first term – 100% refund of all tuition.
• If enrollment is canceled during or after the student’s first term – 80% of unused tuition refunded.

“Unused tuition” means tuition for terms that have not yet begun.

Refunds are paid by check only and are given on the student’s last day of enrollment.

Refunds for Change in Program

If you have already paid for a term but wish to change to a program with lower tuition, the difference in tuition between the programs will be 100% refunded. You must inform the office of any program change no later than the third day of the term.

Deferring Tuition

A student can defer 100% of unused tuition to a later term. This means a student can choose to use 100% of unused tuition to study in a later term.

Choosing to defer tuition means that a student is giving up his or her right to any refund of the unused tuition. However, the student will be able to use it to study with when he/she decides to return.

In order to defer tuition, the following rules must be followed:

1. Deferral must be arranged before the beginning of the deferred term.
2. The student must leave the country or otherwise be eligible to take a vacation term.
3. Tuition is only divisible by weeks not by days.
4. Student must re-start no later than the next available start date after he/she returns to the U.S.
5. The student must be eligible to re-enroll according to immigration rules.

Tuition Refund in the Event of a Disaster or Emergency

In the extremely unlikely event of a disaster or other emergency for which the school must temporarily close, no refunds of any tuition will be given. All remaining tuition will be available for the student to use to continue studying when the school reopens.

“Disaster or other emergency” includes any event that affects the school but which is outside the school’s ability to control including but not limited to inclement weather, natural disaster, domestic or international crisis, and/or domestic or international health or safety emergency.