Are board or licensure examination fees inside the published cost of attendance? published Yes, as an allowance category stated in the federal component language, carrying no figure and naming neither NBCE nor board exams.
Mechanism recorded: allowance
The DC tuition page is the document that names the federal construct. It heads a section Estimated per-trimester cost of attendance for the 2026-2027 year
and says the amounts rest on a nationally recognized survey for determining a university’s cost of attendance.
Under Additional Financial Aid Information
it introduces a list - Financial aid covers much more than tuition. Our scholarships, grants, and loans help you fully fund your student experience. Funds can be used to cover:
- whose last item is the mechanism: Allowance for one-time direct costs of obtaining a first professional license or certificate for students who are enrolled in a program that requires such professional licensure or certification.
TWO LIMITS ON THAT, both recorded. (a) It carries no figure. The allowance is a category of what aid may cover, not a line in a budget. (b) It names neither NBCE nor board exams; it says first professional license or certificate
.
The table on the same page that does carry figures - Indirect Expenses - Moderate Estimate
- has no board or licensure row: Loan Fees $304, Books, Materials, Supplies, & Equipment $1,000, Transportation $1,674, Personal Miscellaneous $5,632, Food & Housing $7,914. "NBCE", National Board
, "board exam", "Licensing Board" and "board fee" occur zero times on the page; the only Board Exams, Certification and Licensing
string is a navigation label.
DISCLOSURE PLACEMENT: both the allowance list and the whole-program tuition total sit inside collapsed accordions - class=collapse-body collapse
with aria-expanded="false" - so a reader meets neither until they expand a panel.
The program’s own rate table. published Recorded as: no
Mechanism recorded for that table: none shown
The 2026-2027 catalog's Tuition and Fees page carries the program tuition table. Its College of Chiropractic row reads Doctor of Chiropractic (DC)
with Block Tuition
Term 1-9 $14,469 and Term 10 $6,755, Per Credit Tuition
$675, Lab Fees (per lab)
$50 and Student Activity Fee (per term)
$290. No board or licensure row; "NBCE", National Board
, "Board Exam", "Licensing Board" and cost of attendance
each occur zero times on that page, tested rather than assumed.
The same figures appear on the website tuition table, cut differently: Tuition average per Trimester
$13,698, Tuition Trimester: 1-9 Block Rate
$14,469, Tuition Trimester: 10
$6,755, *Per Credit Tuition
$675, Total Trimesters
10, Total Credits
205.75, then "Other Fees:" - Application Fee $50, University Fee (per trimester) $290, Lab Fee (per lab) $50. The catalog calls the per-term fee a Student Activity Fee
and the website calls it a University Fee
; both are $290. Recorded as each publishes it, not reconciled.
The two f1 columns AGREE here that no board figure is published, and disagree on whether a licensure allowance is disclosed at all: the website states one in words, the catalog table states nothing. Recorded because the agreement and the disagreement are facts of the same kind.
Checked 2026-09-16, as dated in the field on the entry.