[freeopinion]

Utah's higher education system has what I think is a very stupid tuition hierarchy. It seems that tuition is set by the state legislature and cannot be modified by the individual school. But schools can set other fees. So they have this concept of "differential tuition". That is some arbitrary amount that they choose to charge for a particular class that is the difference between what tuition would be if they could control it and the amount mandated by the legislature.

You may have paid all your tuition and still owe the university tuition. Got a tuition scholarship from the university? Better check the fine print. Full-tuition or half-tuition doesn't necessarily mean what you think it means. It might only cover one of the definitions of tuition. Each class can have multiple tuitions of arbitrary amounts and you have to pay them all; your scholarship does not have to cover them all.

Oh, and it is impossible to know how much to budget for a 15-credit hour semester unless you provide a specific list of classes taken.

So, "didn't come from tuition" is an ambiguous statement from a Utah school.