Can you really try Purdue Global free for three weeks?
Yes, and it is a real offer — if you qualify. First-time undergraduates can attend the first three weeks of a ten-week term, in real classes for real credit, and leave owing nothing. Graduate programmes and returning students are excluded. Continue past week three and the full term becomes payable, including the free weeks.
What you actually get
There is no application fee. You start classes as an ordinary student, doing ordinary work. The credits are real and count toward the degree if you finish them. At any point inside the window you can opt out with no financial obligation.
That is unusually generous. No other school in this network lets you sit in the classroom before paying.
Who is excluded
- Graduate programmes. MSN and doctoral candidates get no trial.
- Returning students. If you attended before and are coming back, you are liable from week one.
- Non-degree-seeking students.
- Certain independent-model programmes in the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies.
Between the first two, a large share of the nurses this offer attracts are not covered by it. It is published in the catalog and it is not in the advertising.
What week four costs
Everything the term was going to cost. The trial does not discount the first three weeks; it postpones the bill for them. At the published RN-to-BSN rate across a typical two-course term that is around $3,710 becoming payable at once.
So the date to diarise is the end of week three, not the start of week one.
The mistake that turns a free trial into a withdrawal
Using it passively. Attendance at Purdue Global is logged by submitting graded work — reading and watching Seminars does not count. On ExcelTrack, logging no attendance in the first three weeks triggers administrative withdrawal, and that window is exactly the length of the trial.
Submit a discussion post in the first few days. It costs nothing, it starts the attendance record, and it makes the trial a genuine test rather than a risk.
How to use it well
- Confirm you qualify before you build a plan around it.
- Diarise the end of week three the day you enrol.
- Do real work in the window, not a survey of it.
- Get your transfer credit assessed inside the window, because it changes the total far more than the trial does.
Is there an application fee?
No. There is no cost to apply and no financial obligation during the trial period.
Do the credits count if I stay?
Yes. The classes are real and completed work counts toward the degree.
Can MSN students use the trial?
No. The Commitment covers undergraduate study only, so graduate candidates are excluded.