Summer Financial Aid

Financial aid is available to students who are interested in attending the summer semester. To be considered for financial aid, enroll in your summer courses and submit the Summer Financial Aid Application.

Application will be available in the future.

Application process

To apply for summer financial aid, you must:

Ensure the 2024-2025 FAFSA is on file with our office.
Enroll in your summer courses.
Complete the Summer Financial Aid Application.

The application is generally available mid-March. You will want to complete the application as soon as possible so you are considered for all forms of aid.

Types of aid available and aid offers

The following types of financial aid are generally available:

Your maximum financial aid eligibility will be offered to you. The amount of summer financial aid that can be offered to you is dependent on how much financial aid you have already received during the fall and spring semesters.

You will be notified of your summer financial aid offer. You may accept or decline your financial aid in KSIS.

Enrollment requirements

You must be enrolled at least half-time to be eligible for a federal student loan. Half-time status is defined as:

6 credit hours for Undergraduate students.
3 credit hours for Graduate students.
5 credit hours for Veterinary Medicine students.

Effects of enrollment changes

If your summer enrollment changes after your summer financial aid has already been disbursed, federal regulations may require the University to bill you for all or a portion of the summer financial aid that you already received. Consequently, we urge you to consult with our office before making any summer enrollment changes.

Questions

My enrollment changed. How does that affect my summer financial aid already awarded?

How will I receive my financial aid refund?

If I take one June class and one July class, when will my aid be released?

A key requirement to receive any form of federal financial assistance is that you have established eligibility by starting your course work at the time our office authorizes any assistance to be disbursed on your behalf.

As noted above, one eligibility requirement for a federal student loan is that a student must be at least half-time. Before a federal student loan can be authorized for disbursement, actual course work will need to have already begun in enough courses so that the student can be counted as half-time.

To illustrate, an undergraduate student is enrolled in a 3 credit hour course that begins and ends in June and a 3 credit hour course that begins the first week of July and ends in early August. While our office is allowed to offer a student loan premised on the fact that the student meets the half-time minimum loan requirement of 6 summer credit hours, our office is not allowed to authorize the disbursement of the loan until the student has begun course work in July on her/his second summer course.