PayPal and Venmo become accepted tuition payment options at US universities

PayPal and Venmo can now be selected inside university payment portals, via integrations with three campus commerce platforms. It is the first time either brand sits natively on a school's tuition checkout page. What changed PayPal has integrated PayPal and Venmo into three higher-education payment platforms — Illumia, Nelnet Campus Commerce, and TouchNet (a Global Payments company) — so that tuition and fees can be paid directly from a participating institution's existing payment portal. The integrations are live at a first set of schools including Bellarmine University, Butler University, Kansas State University, Michigan State University, and Texas Tech University, with more expected to join across the academic year. Between them the three platforms serve thousands of US colleges and universities. Payers can fund a tuition payment with a linked bank account, a credit card, or a PayPal or Venmo balance. PayPal describes this as the first direct integration of either brand with a school payment portal, extending a campus push that began with its Big Ten and Big 12 agreements a year earlier.