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  • Florida Homeless Tuition Exemption: You may qualify if you are a student experiencing homelessness. A “student experiencing homelessness” is defined as: An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including an individual who would meet this definition but for their residence in college dormitory housing. Examples include:
    • An individual who is sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason (doubled‐up);
    • An individual who is living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
    • An individual who is living in emergency or transitional shelters;
    • An individual whose primary nighttime residence is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings; or
    • An individual who is living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings.
  • Florida Department of Children and Families Tuition Exemption: You may qualify for a tuition waiver up until you reach 28 years of age, if you meet one of the following criteria:
    • You are, or were at the time of reaching 18 years of age, in out-of-home care;
    • You were adopted from the Department of Children and Families after May 5, 1997;
    • You are or were at the time of reaching 18 years of age, placed in the custody of a relative or non-relative under s. 39.5085, s. 39.6221, or 39.6225, F.S.; or
    • You were reunified with your parents after spending at least 18 months in an out-of-home care after reaching 14 years of age, including a reunification pursuant to s. 39.8155, F.S.
  • Combat Decoration Tuition Exemption: Pursuant to Florida Statute 1009.26(9), Miami Dade College will waive undergraduate tuition for each recipient of a Purple Heart or other combat decoration superior in precedence as listed below. This waiver includes tuition and related fees that are assessed to all students, regardless of the program or credit course in which they are enrolling. Fees that are waived include charges that all students must pay as part of their instructional costs/costs per credit hour which are not linked to specific courses. Fees not included in this waiver are “user” fees. User fees include laboratory fees and other special fees that support specific programs and/or courses.
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  • If you meet either of these definitions, please contact us at 305-237-0316, or your campus admissions office for more information on the tuition waiver.
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