Tuition Reimbursement from US companies

A survey of tuition reimbursement from U. S. corporations found on the Internet:

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ABN AMRO / LaSalle Bank 100% up to $10,000 per year.

American Federation of Teachers- up to $17,500 loan forgiveness off of your Stafford loans. 100% loan forgiveness for your Perkins loans. Both after 5 years of teaching in high need schools.

AmeriCorps- Grants volunteers with at least one year of service as much as $4,725 toward loan repayments or future tuition.

Ann Taylor Pays 1/2 of tuition costs for full time employees.

Applied Materials Up to $8,500 reimbursement, courses relevant to your job. Taxes will be withheld for anything over the IRS limit.

BANK OF AMERICA - Up to $2000 reimbursement per year for undergrad, $4k for graduate school. Any major for undergrad, grad work must be biz related. Not reported as income for undergrad. No restriction on yrs of employment or # of hours worked (this may have changed since I was aware of the plan). I knew someone who worked 6 hours on saturdays ONLY and got this

Best Buy: 100% reimbursement for tuition, books, and registration fees for regionally accredited colleges, universities, and post-secondary technical schools. $3500 max per year, must be a full time employee (32 hrs/week min).

Boeing - Full reimbursement (full tuition and books, any subject as long as it qualifies for college or continuing education credits, no cap on cost) if you work 20 hours or more per week. My friend had her last year of USC (~ $30,000) paid for while interning. They also provide 100 shares of stock after an undergrad graduation. The stock vests over 3 years. They give 50 shares for a masters or doctorate degree. It's probably the best or one of the best company education reimbursement plans possible.

Booz Allen Hamilton - 5k (degree seeking) or 2.5k (certificate seeking) a year for tuition and related expenses

Circuit City: Up to $1000 per semester. Must have Bs or higher. Either full time or part time (worked for more than one year)

CITIGROUP - 80% tuition reimbursement on any AA/BA and mba in business (Corporate Positions: $100,000 income limit; 80% reimbursement for any education, including undergraduate)

CNA Insurance Companies - Up to $5000 per year for tuition (not Law degrees)

Convergys (Call center job) - Need to work 20 hours per week. I don't remember the details for reimbursement, but it was VERY generous.

CSC (Computer Sciences Corp), offers $15K a year in tuition reimbursement.

Disney (Parks & Resorts...don't know about ABC or affiliates) - 100% of Costs - No Limit but for FT Hourly and Salaried Employees Only (Must average 32hrs worked each quarter). You also must pay for the tuition yourself and not have scholarships or other financial aid to cover the tuition.

ExxonMobil: 100% of tuition, books and most related fees are reimbursed at end of each semester, no maximum dollar amount. Must pass classes, but no specific grade is required. Enrollment in classes cannot begin until after 90 days of employment. Pre-approval of supervisor required. No online courses unless no equivalent classes/program is offered locally. Must be part of a degree program, unless individual classes are related to current job. NOTE: For full-time employees only (32+ hrs./week), but this benefit is available at all levels, from sales associates at all company-owned gas stations, on up through corporate levels. CHANGE TO PROGRAM: : As of 01/01/2008, courses and degrees must be in some type of a business field.

Google $6500/year

Greatbatch Inc: 100% tuition reimbursement if you get C or above in any field. Does not have to relate to primary job function at all. No cap for employee, but dependants are capped at SUNY Buffalo rate. There is no requirement to stay on the job after graduation, nor requirement for time of service before tuition reimbursement kicks in. Available from day 1 of employment.

Home Depot: 50% reimbursement for tuition, books, and registration fees for approved coursework at regionally accredited colleges, universities, and post-secondary technical schools. $5000 max per year starts from day one, employment status does not matter.

IBM : Pays full tuition costs for full time employees. (The classes must be related to your field of work.)

Intel: Pay full tuition costs for full time employees.  For business related degrees (e.g. MBA), pays up to $50,000.

Johnson & Johnson : Pays full tuition costs for courses relevant to your job. Taxes will be withheld for anything over the IRS limit.

Leopard's Lounge and other clubs - $1,500 to $2,000 in educational expenses per year to women or men who work three or four seven-hour shifts. link

Lockheed Martin $7500/yr if you are enrolled in a degree program that is relevant to your job function. If you participate in the company's leadership development program, different limits may apply(Usually, Prepaid tuition at 100%). Retention clause, if you voluntarily terminate within one year of receiving tuition reimbursement you will be required to repay reimbursements made within your final 12 months of employment. Recently the limit for Graduate Engineering programs was increased to 15000/yr

MetLife : Info current as of 2003, pays full tuition costs including fees. Taxes will be withheld for anything over the IRS limit.

Morning Star: Pays 80% tuition costs (?)

Pfizer : Pays full tuition costs including fees and upto $150 for books per semester. Taxes will be withheld for anything over the IRS limit.

Regions Bank - Tuition reimbursment up to $5000 per year towards a bachelors or graduate degree that could be used at the bank (business, technology-related, etc). Also, this may be useful to those just starting out, but Regions will reimburse for your 'core' classes on a bachleors degree no matter what your major even if it is not related to banking (in the past they did this). The tuition reimbursement is pro-rated for part time employees.

Siemens $5500 per year for Bachelor or Masters. Only one degree allowed.

Southern Company - Reimbursement for up to $5000 per year of tuition and fees at 100% for grades C and above and a passing grade on a pass/fail course. Regular part time employees receive half the reimbursement of full time employees. Tuition reimbursement is available immediately upon employment.

Staples - $750 1st year, $1500 second year, $2000 third year - available to PT associates 18 hrs/week

Symantec Corporation : Pays $5250 per year of tuition costs for full time employees. Only goes towards relevant degrees.

Sun Micro and Oracle Corporation : Pays $5250 per year of tuition costs for full time employees.

TriWest Healthcare Alliance : This isn't a national company, but does cover 22 states. TriWest offers 3k per year for tuition reimbursement, undergrad or graduate.

UPS - Earn and Learn program. From their site: Available in 51 UPS locations across the country, the UPS Earn and Learn program offers $3,000 per calendar year with a lifetime maximum of $15,000 in assistance. For part-time management employees, the benefits are increased to $4,000 per calendar year with a lifetime maximum of $20,000.

UTC (United Technologies) Pays full tuition/books/fees for all Full Time employees. Also gives $10,000 in stock upon graduation.

Well's Fargo offers tuition reimbursement after 6 months of working at least part time 20hrs for business majors. i think its $2500 for part time, and $5000 for fulltime employees. they will only pay for tuition, they will not pay for the additional fee's such as health, parking, or any other misc fees.

Yahoo! $5000/year if you are working towards a degree. Other courses can be reimbursed by your department depending on the course's relevancy to your work.

"Booz Allen Hamilton - 5k (degree seeking) or 2.5k (certificate seeking) a year for tuition and related expenses"

This is somehow shocking to me