(Update on 7/30: Georgetown has since changed its plans, announcing that classes will start online.)

In an update to its plans, Georgetown University announced Tuesday that it would offer tuition breaks for some undergraduate students who are starting classes again on Aug. 26.

It’s the latest announcement as local universities began releasing comprehensive reopening plans this month, detailing specifics for social distancing, switching to online classes, and outlining other methods of navigating an uncertain fall semester during a pandemic.

Specifically, Georgetown students who are not invited back to campus will receive a 10% reduction in tuition — about $2,800 — while students returning to campus will be charged full tuition with a lower housing rate. If the pandemic ultimately prevents any students from returning to campus, all undergraduates will get the reduction, the university said in a statement.

Both housing and dining charges will be reduced by 20% to account for a shorter semester, the statement said. The discounts, which differ based on the student, will be about $2,000 per student, per the Washington Post.

Students will begin with a mix of in-person and remote classes, then transition to fully online from Nov. 20 to Dec. 8.—an effort to limit post-Thanksgiving travel and reduce the risk of infection, per a Georgetown University spokesperson.

The university will also limit its campus to about 2,000 students. Those invited back to campus include incoming freshmen, a limited number of upperclassmen, some resident assistants, and “students whose personal or family situation makes it impossible or unrealistic to pursue their studies at their permanent address.” (77% — around 5,700 — of the 7,459 undergraduates enrolled typically live in on-campus housing, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings.)

“Due to the dynamic nature of the pandemic, we have not made any decision on tuition beyond the Fall 2020 semester. Please know that University leaders, faculty and staff take your financial burden seriously and work hard each year to reduce direct costs and increase philanthropic support for scholarships,” Provost Robert Groves and Geoffrey Chatas, senior vice president and chief operating officer, said in the letter to undergraduates.

Georgetown isn’t alone in offering some form of relief to undergraduates. Gallaudet University is offering a 15% tuition reduction for all full-time and part-time students, and will cut its health services fee. Most schools have launched some form of crisis fundraising for students in financial need, such as Catholic University’s effort to raise and distribute more than $1 million, and UDC’s distribution of nearly $600,000 and reimbursement of some student fees.

“To ensure we deliver the best possible education experience given the health and safety needs, a discount isn’t possible,” American University said about its tuition, but added that the school is reducing undergraduate activity fees by 30%. (Disclosure: AU holds the license for DCist’s parent company, WAMU.)

George Washington University, which reimbursed some fees during the spring semester, has said that in the fall “the tuition charged remains the same regardless of format.”

In April, universities nationwide began facing increased pressure to reduce tuition and student fees, as parents and students argued that without in-person classes, they weren’t receiving the education they paid for. Some local universities even faced lawsuits from families seeking reimbursements.

Universities nationwide face dire financial situations among the prospect of shrinking enrollment, and advocates have pleaded with the federal government for relief funds since mid-March — universities in the Washington region received $65 million in emergency funds in April.

With a reduced number of students returning to Howard University’s campus in the fall, university leaders said they were considering ways to assist students, but didn’t immediately list plans for reducing costs.

“This is not easy,” wrote Provost Anthony Wutoh and Chief Operating Officer Tashni-Ann Dubroy. “While other highly ranked institutions have large endowments and have been able to use them to absorb the unexpected costs of the pandemic, Howard University does not have that same luxury or comparable investment resources.”

Georgetown students collected more than 2,000 signatures on a petition for the university provost and president to reduce tuition to reflect pandemic-related restrictions, among other demands.

“A Zoom education taken either in your dorm room or your parents’ basement is objectively not worth a $28,000 per semester commitment,” student Jackson Butler wrote.

Notably, Georgetown’s tuition reductions don’t extend to graduate students, who on Tuesday were reminded to pay tuition by Aug. 21. One PhD candidate told the Post that “graduate students often tend to feel like an aside” at the university.

“In examining the experiences of our undergraduate and graduate students we realize that the experiences of those populations are different, and are tied in different ways to a campus experience,” a university spokesperson told DCist in an email. “We believe that our graduate students will have more access to Georgetown’s D.C. resources than our undergraduate student populations who are not returning to campus this fall.”