All domestic students taking nine (9) credit hours or more are required to maintain health insurance as a condition of enrollment. Students will be charged the premium on their student accounts upon registration and will be enrolled in the plan with Effective Date of 8/1. If you choose to waive and your waiver is approved, the charge will be removed from your account, and you will be removed from coverage. If the coverage is used, you will not be able to waive. A domestic student may waive out of the policy by documenting current comparable U.S. insurance coverage.
Domestic students taking between four (4) to eight (8) credit hours are eligible to enroll on a voluntary basis during the open enrollment period (prior to the waiver deadline and have their premium billed to their SMU student account.
All international students are required to maintain the Student Health Insurance Plan as a condition of enrollment. Students will be charged the premium on their student accounts upon registration and will be enrolled in the plan with Effective Date of 8/1. If you choose to wavier and your waiver is approved, the charge will be removed from your account and you will be removed from coverage. If the coverage is used, you will not be able to waive. International students must enroll in the Student Health Insurance Plan unless they have an approved special waiver.
Eligible dependents of those enrolled in the plan may participate in the plan on a voluntary basis.
