College students can now pay tuition with PayPal or Venmo at certain universities

Students and families will be charged transactional fees that are determined by each school.

Some universities will begin accepting the nontraditional payment method as consumers seek flexible spending options.

A handful of universities are allowing students and their families to pay tuition via PayPal and Venmo mobile payment apps.  Bellarmine University, Butler University, Kansas State University, Michigan State University and Texas Tech University are among the first to integrate the digital payment system into Illumia, Ne

College is a constellation of Venmo requests — your roommate’s cut of the utilities, your half of an Uber ride, the ticket to your friend’s a capella performance that you don’t actually want to go to. On Wednesday, Venmo’s parent company PayPal announced that you will now be able to use its services to pay your tuition