Colegio Albania

Carrera 3 No. 15-00 Mushaisa Albania, La Guajira, Colombia

Primary and secondary education; IB programmes offered (PAI, Diploma) as part of an IB World School.

Bilingual international educational institution; IB World School; Cognia-accredited; accredited by the Colombian Ministry of Education.

Colombia

Application fees
- No separate, currently published application fee amount is available in the school's public documents. The institution requires a one-time enrollment (matrícula) at initial admission, but a distinct ‘application' charge is not published in accessible materials.

Tuition fees by year group (published schedule found for 2017–2018)
- The most recent publicly posted detailed numeric fee table available in school documents shows the following values for the 2017–2018 academic year. These appear as a one‑time matrícula (enrollment) amount and a monthly pension shown as “10 mensualidades” (ten monthly payments):
- Nursery to Pre‑Prekinder: COP 942,000 (matrícula); COP 942,000 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- Kinder: COP 932,800 (matrícula); COP 932,800 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- Transición: COP 927,200 (matrícula); COP 927,200 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- 1° grado: COP 910,000 (matrícula); COP 910,000 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- 2° grado: COP 918,500 (matrícula); COP 918,500 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- 3°–4° grados: COP 762,600 (matrícula); COP 762,600 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- 5°–9° grados: COP 918,500 (matrícula); COP 918,500 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- 10°–11° grados: COP 1,030,500 (matrícula); COP 1,030,500 (each of 10 mensualidades).
- Interpretation for annual cost (based on that table): the document presents both a matrícula amount and a monthly pension amount payable over 10 months. The annual family payment under that model would consist of the matrícula plus the ten monthly payments as shown in the table.

Other periodic charges (as listed in the public fee table found for 2017–2018)
- Orientación psicológica (annual): COP 40,000.
- Papelería (annual): COP 55,800.
- Educación especial (mensual, when applicable): COP 10,030.
- Sistematización (mensual, when applicable): COP 18,850.
- Library/book replacement: where a loaned library book is lost or damaged, replacement cost is calculated as the current price of the book + 15% (shipping) + COP 7,000 (technical processing). Parents are responsible for replacement or repair costs for materials damaged through misuse.
- Property/material repairs and replacement: the school may charge parents for repair or replacement of school property (laboratory equipment, instruments, sports equipment, etc.) when damage results from misuse; amounts are determined by the administration.

Billing schedule and payment terms
- The school's published materials indicate tuition is structured as monthly pensions payable over ten monthly instalments ("10 mensualidades") in the posted fee table. Renewal of enrollment for a new academic year requires parents to be current (a “paz y salvo”) on all educational service charges.
- The school prepares and issues monthly invoices for operational charges and pensions; in the school's financial arrangements, the Foundation prepares a monthly invoice request to its founding/operating partner for costs net of pensions and matriculas collected. This confirms a monthly invoicing and accounting cadence.

Boarding fees
- Boarding is not applicable. Colegio Albania is listed as a day school (coeducational day); there are no published boarding fee schedules.

Uniforms and required items
- The school publishes detailed uniform rules (daily uniform and physical‑education uniform) but does not publish fixed prices for uniforms. Uniform requirements are specified in the school manual.
- Parents may also be charged for replacement of loaned materials, fines for late library returns, or repair/replacement of damaged school property as set out in the manual; one concrete formula for library replacement is provided (book price + 15% + COP 7,000).

Refunds and cancellations
- No explicit, published refund policy (devoluciones/reembolsos) for tuition or matrícula payments is available in the public documents reviewed. Enrollment is formalized by contract; the contract and the Manual of Convivencia set the conditions for termination or cancellation of enrollment and the requirement to be current on payments to renew enrollment, but a specific refund schedule is not given in the publicly accessible materials.

Fee payment options (credit card / bank transfer / portal)
- The school uses a parent/administration access portal (Phidias is referenced as the school access portal), and the institution operates monthly invoicing processes; however, specific published payment channels (for example, explicit acceptance of credit cards, online card payments, or named bank transfer details) are not published in the public documents reviewed. Families are required to be current on charges to renew matrícula; the school's financial reports also document invoicing flows with the founding partner.

Summary of findings and note on currency of published figures
- A full, current numeric fee schedule for the 2026/27 academic year (or for 2025/26) was not publicly posted in the school's accessible documents. The most detailed numeric fee schedule found in public documents is a table dated to the 2017–2018 academic year (matrícula and 10 mensualidades, plus several periodic charges); that table is reproduced above exactly as published in the school's institutional document set. Other documents (institutional manual and the school's financial reports) describe billing cadence, payment requirements, routine additional charges (library, repair/replacement, psychology/paperwork fees), and administrative rules for matrícula and renewal, but they do not publish an updated per‑grade fee schedule for 2025/26 or 2026/27.