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Student Account


When you are admitted to the University of California, San Diego, you are given a system-assigned personal identification number. This action creates your student account on TritonPay. Each month, you will receive a billing statement that summarizes all of your University charges and credits, including payments, which are posted to your account. Possible charges include registration fees, housing and meal plans, parking fees, bookstore charges, and other miscellaneous debts, such as library fines. If you are a financial aid recipient, funds disbursed through the Financial Aid & Scholarship Office will be credited to your account and offset against the statement's charges. For any remaining amount due, you will be responsible for paying before the statement due date. In the case of a credit balance, you will be refunded by mailed check to your current mailing address or direct deposit to your bank account. The only exception to this offset of aid against University charges includes graduate fellowships and stipends.

Your student account should not be confused with your TritonCash account (which is strictly a debit card requiring advance cash or check payment).

Bookstore Charges


For your convenience, you may elect to have the cost of books and other educational items purchased through the UCSD Bookstore charged to your student account and offset against anticipated financial aid or paid when the next UCSD monthly billing statement is received. These charges, along with course material fees, will be listed as Campus Purchases/Other on the TritonPay overview page. To apply charges to your student account, all you have to do is take your purchase to any cash register and provide the cashier with your UCSD Student I.D.

If you have any questions regarding any Bookstore charges on your Student Account, please contact Customer Service at 858-534-7326.

If you have any questions regarding any course materials charges, please contact Course Materials Central at 858-726-5706 or email textbooks@ucsd.edu.

Contact Student Financial Solutions with Billing Questions


You should contact Student Financial Solutions under the following conditions:
  • You need help accessing your student account
  • There are questions concerning a TritonPay charge
  • You have a concern of a more general nature; or
  • You are following up on a charge that is not Bookstore or course material related. See the instructions above for those inquiries

Non-Payment Penalties


Although many students are still dependent on parental support for funding their educational expenses, UCSD considers all students to be adults and individually responsible for all expenses incurred. Consequently, when a student owes the University money, an automatic hold prevents them from future registration until the bill is paid. Hold notices detailing outstanding debts are emailed to students each quarter. If necessary, other collection activity, including assignment to a collection agency, tax interception, and the submission of a bad credit rating to a national credit bureau, may be taken