Exemptions are granted on a year-by-year basis. Students may submit application after January 1 each year. The deadline is April 1. The Complete applications must be received by the deadline. The incomplete application or the application received after the deadline will not be considered.
This exemption program is open to citizens of China (from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macao, Taiwan) who are studying at a Florida public university or community college on an F-1 visa.
Exemptions may be awarded at the undergraduate, graduate, and vocational levels, for degree, non-degree and certificate programs of study. These exemptions do not apply to non-degree intensive English study.
Because there are more applicants than awards, tuition waiver awards are competitive! Relevant factors considered by the Institute include, but are not limited to: grade point average (GPA), type of degree program, and demonstration of progress towards a degree with intent to graduate (if the applicant is degree seeking student). Consideration for a tuition exemption requires a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0.
Applicants must include the most recent official transcripts showing the cumulative GPA.
Exemptions will be granted for no more than twelve (12) undergraduate hours or no more than nine (9) graduate or graduate-undergraduate combination hours per semester, and the award may be less than requested.
Successful applicants will receive a letter authorizing the exemption. Please present the letter to the appropriate university office with the required fee payment. Once fees are paid, the student will receive a receipt.
Students must submit the correct portion of the Credit Hours Used form to this office within 10 days after registration. Failure to submit the form will result in the forfeit of the out-of-state waiver and disqualifying for applying the waiver in the future. Students who register for less than the number of hours awarded must send a copy of the registrar's receipt, or other proof of enrollment, to the Florida-China Linkage Institute office, so that we may award the unused hours to another student. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the exemption.
Florida Statute 288.8175 authorizing this tuition exemption program provides that students awarded tuition exemptions are required to return to their home country, after their studies, for a length of time equal to their exemption period.
Freshmen & Sophomores may complete the application online, or print it, complete it and mail to:
Ms. Francine Arrington
Brevard Community College
Florida China Linkage Institute
1519 Clearlake Road
Cocoa, FL 32922
Juniors, Seniors & Graduate Students may complete the application online, or print it, complete it and submit it to:
Dr. Kuiyuan Li
Florida China Linkage Institute
Bldg 71
The University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
