The Office of the Bursar offers several payment options including: electronic payments via Cashnet, wire transfers via Flywire, checks, money orders, and 529 payments.

Checks or money orders must be in United States dollars, drawn on a United States bank, and made payable to "Cornell University."

Note: Cash payment and postdated checks are not accepted.

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We encourage customers to pay electronically through Cashnet, but checks can be mailed directly to our office. Please make checks or money orders payable to "Cornell University," and indicate how the payment amount should be applied to each account (Bursar and CornellCard). Mail payments to the Office of the Bursar, 260 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2801.

Payments from 529 savings plans should be mailed to the Office of the Bursar, Cornell University, 260 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2801.

As a general rule, our office does not accept third-party checks. A third-party check is any check made payable to someone other than Cornell University, and that has been endorsed by the payee and then made payable to Cornell.

Note: If a student has a Cornell-issued check in their name (e.g., a paycheck issued by Cornell), they may endorse it, make it payable to Cornell, and we'll apply it to their Bursar account.

Under no circumstances will our office accept a personal or bank check made payable only to the student, regardless of whether the student has endorsed the check and made it payable to Cornell.

Yes, payments should be mailed to the Office of the Bursar, 260 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2801. Please indicate how the payment amount should be applied to each account (the Bursar and/or CornellCard).

The Office of the Bursar does not accept credit card payments. We do, however, accept personal checks and money orders.

Cashnet, as an independent third-party servicer, accepts credit card payments for the Full Service Payment Plan (FSPP). Cashnet charges a non-refundable convenience fee of 2.85% of the amount charged for domestic and 4.25% for international credit card payments. 

Domestic credit card payments between $20.00 and $106.00 will have a convenience fee of $3.00. Cornell does not charge the convenience fee or receive any part of the fee. The fee is paid in full to and retained by Cashnet. The convenience fee charge will appear separately from the Bursar payment on your credit card statement.