Tuition
What Your Deposit Secures
Your $250 deposit secures your spot and covers the essential foundations of your course: instructor salary, all textbooks and materials, the mandatory St. Cloud Parks & Recreation facility fee, and registration setup.
In short: it ensures your instructor is hired, materials are ordered, and your classroom is ready to go before day one.
$500 Tuition Breakdown
Our 6-week semester meets twice a week for 2 hours per class, totaling 24 hours of instruction at $20.83 per hour or $83.33 / Week.
Instruction
$10.67 / Week
Covers professional language instruction delivered by qualified educators, ensuring consistent, structured learning across all class sessions.
Course Materials
$8.33 / Week
Provides resources and essential classroom supplies that support instruction and reinforce learning both in and out of class.
Facilities
$13.88 / Week
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Supports the cost of required facility usage fees for each session.
Cultural Workshops & Guest Speakers
$16.67 / Week
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Funds guest speakers, workshops, and cultural experiences that connect language study to real-world use and lived cultural context.
Program Operations & Administration
$12.96 / Week
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Covers registration management, scheduling, insurance, compliance requirements, and the behind-the-scenes coordination needed to run the program smoothly.
Weekly Total
$83.33 / Week
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This program offers 24 hours of instruction at $20.83 per hour.
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By comparison, 24 hours worth of classes at the Parks & Recreation non-resident rate are $15 per hour.
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That’s about $5.83 more per hour — roughly the cost of a cup of coffee — to pick up a new language.​