Eagle Advantage is a program designed to lower the cost of course materials for students and ensure they have access to all of their required textbooks and digital books by the first day of class. Students are charged a $27-per-credit-hour fee for books – but Wake Tech is waiving the fee during the Fall 2023 semester.

Textbooks are conveniently packaged and provided to students on a rental basis, and digital books are delivered directly through Blackboard. At the end of the semester, students will receive email reminders to return their books to the Wake Tech Bookstore.

Eagle Advantage provides all required textbooks, lab manuals, access codes and digital textbook versions to eligible students.

Consumable items that cannot be returned and reused, such as lab goggles, dissection kits, molecular model kits, engineering kits or nursing kits, are not included in Eagle Advantage.

All students in degree programs, including dual-enrollment students in the Career & College Promise program, are automatically enrolled in Eagle Advantage. For the Fall 2023 semester, students, except those in Career & College Promise classes, must complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the Free Book Fall promotion.

Simply register for classes, and the bookstore will prepare your order. One month before classes start, you will receive an email instructing you to choose whether you want to pick your books up at a Wake Tech Bookstore or have them shipped to you. You will get another email when your order is ready for pickup or has shipped. Digital books will be delivered within Blackboard.

Non-degree students and students attending any of Wake County's four Cooperative Innovative High Schools are not eligible for Eagle Advantage.

For the Fall 2023 semester, it is recommended that all students participate in Eagle Advantage since there is no charge. But students are able to opt out of the program if they choose not to participate. Any student who has opted out will be able to opt back in later.

All opt-outs and opt-ins for the Fall semester must be made between July 17 and September 13.

Students will receive emails and phone calls from the Wake Tech Bookstore to remind them to verify their Eagle Advantage orders. If a student does not opt out, textbooks will be held at the bookstore, and digital books will be accessible within Blackboard.

If you have already received your materials and you drop a class, you may simply return any books for that course to the bookstore within 48 hours.

If you drop a class and add a different class, the bookstore will swap the required textbooks or access codes to ensure that you have what you need for your current course schedule. It may take the bookstore a couple of days to process the request, however.

The deadline to return all rental textbooks is the last day of finals for the semester. Students will receive email reminders ahead of that deadline.

Unless you buy it, you are required to return any textbook for a continuing course. You will then be issued the same title for the next semester.

Yes, you have the option to purchase textbooks at a reduced rate during the return period at the end of the semester.