Mandatory Health Insurance

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SMU is committed to the health and well-being of all students. The Dr. Bob Smith Health Center is available to provide students with medical care while attending the University. In order to ensure that students have appropriate healthcare coverage, a mandatory health insurance requirement was passed by the President’s Executive Council in February 2008. This mandatory health insurance policy requires domestic students, both undergraduate and graduate, enrolled in nine or more credit hours to maintain insurance coverage as a condition of enrollment. All international students enrolled in one or more credit hours must enroll in the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP), unless they receive a special waiver personally granted by the SMU Insurance Department.

SMU has partnered with Academic HealthPlans and BlueCross BlueShield of Texas to offer those students in need of health insurance coverage a student-focused, comprehensive medical plan designed to provide convenient and affordable access to medical care whether students are at school, at home, traveling, or studying abroad. To view the SHIP benefits brochure, please visit https://smu.myahpcare.com/.

SMU’s mandatory policy requires those students with enrolled status mentioned above to provide documentation of comparable current insurance coverage or to enroll in the SHIP on a term basis. Students will do so by selecting the “Health Insurance” button in the Student Center component of my.SMU.edu after they have enrolled for classes each term. Domestic students already maintaining their own private coverage must waive SHIP coverage prior to the deadlines, which are September 7 for fall 2017 and February 7 for spring 2018, to avoid automatic enrollment into SHIP and thereby having the semi-annual premium of $1,399 applied to the student’s University account.
 

SMU STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN RATES
FOR THE 2017-2018 ACADEMIC YEAR
 

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