COURSES, SCHEDULES & GRADUATION

Audited courses cannot be certified to the VA.

Your School Certifying Official will process certifications within 30 days prior to the start of term.  It is recommended that you enroll early and submit your Enrollment Verification Form to the School Certifying Official.  Any schedule changes may delay your VA benefits.  The School Certifying official will make every effort to submit certifications to the VA in a timely manner.  Despite this, the VA tuition payment will likely not arrive at the University prior to the tuition being due. 

The School Certifying Official will annotate in your record that you are a VA education benefit recipient and tuition payment is expected from the VA.  You will continue to receive an invoice from the Bursar as this process is automatic for any student who has a balance.  You will not be accessed late fees or penalties while VA tuition payments are pending.  If you have charges that are not covered by the VA such as parking or room and board, you will be expected to pay those when due. 

To utilize your VA education benefits you must be enrolled in a program that is approved by the VA for benefit use.  The list can be found on WEAMS. Only courses that satisfy requirements outlined by your degree plan can be certified for VA purposes. If you take a course(s) that does not fulfill a program requirement, it cannot be certified for VA purposes. 

Dual majors can be certified if both majors are approved. Only courses required to complete the dual major can be certified. 

You are required to notify your School Certifying Official if you graduate.

Courses that are successfully completed may not be certified for VA purposes. If a program requires a higher grade than achieved, that course may be repeated. If you receive an “F” then you may repeat the course(s) for a second time, the course can continue to be certified until you successfully complete the course if it is still required for your program. However, repeat course fees cannot be certified to the VA. 

You may use the “rounding out” method with non-required courses to bring your course load up to a full-time schedule in the last semester of your program. This procedure can be done only once per program. 

Whenever you add, drop, or withdraw from a course the School Certifying Official must be notified. Changes in your credit hours may affect your VA benefits. The VA will notify you if the changes in your enrollment resulted in a debt with the VA, you are responsible for paying back any debt to the VA created by your change in enrollment. 

Students who transfer to Villanova and wish to have previously earned credits evaluated for transfer should submit all official transcripts through the admissions process. 

The law requires that educational assistance benefits to Veterans and other eligible persons be discontinued when the student ceases to make satisfactory progress toward completion of his or her training objective. The School Certifying Official has the right to terminate your certification if at any time you stop attending classes and/or end up on academic suspension. By terminating your certification, you will be responsible to pay any debt incurred with the VA.