Aid is awarded in annual amounts for an academic year. Annual amounts are divided between semesters. The Financial Aid Office prorates or recalculates institutional aid prior to disbursement if a student’s enrollment, campus, residence, or dependency changes. After a disbursement has been made, there is no adjustment to aid. Other situations can be appealed to the Director of Financial Aid.
A student whose financial aid is subject to change will be notified from the Financial Aid Office by email.
Aid is applied to the student’s bill in the following order: tuition, fees, housing, food. Institutional aid is applied first, followed by federal aid. If an external scholarship stipulates where it must be applied, it will be applied to the student’s bill before institutional aid is applied. In this situation, institutional aid will be prorated up to the amount of the student’s bill.
Aid is awarded and disbursed in whole-dollar amounts one time each semester. For online students, it is disbursed in each session and is divided according to enrollment for the session. The student can see the disbursement amounts and dates on their student portal. If a disbursement creates a credit balance on the student’s account, a refund will be issued within 14 days.