Graduate or Professional Student

Your Financial Aid How-To Guide

Whether you’re a new or continuing graduate student, figuring out how to pay for graduate school can be overwhelming. But that’s why we’re here — to help take away some of the anxiety.

Check out these clear, simple steps for applying for financial aid and navigating the process. And remember, we’re just a phone call or email away if you have questions.

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Estimate Costs

You have to know how much it all costs before you can make a plan.

Explore types of aid

Learn the basic types of financial aid that are available to you.

File the FAFSA

If you want aid, you have to file the FAFSA. We’ll demystify this federal application for aid and break it down into easy steps.

Apply for Scholarships

There’s money out there. You just need to know where to look for it and how to apply.

Accept Aid

You’ve done all the hard work. Now it’s time to see how much aid you qualify for, how to accept it and how it’s paid to you.

Maintain Aid

Learn how to keep your scholarships and financial aid. Find out what to do if your financial circumstances change.

Your Summer To-Do List

Take a breath. Review our checklist to make sure you’ve done everything you need to do regarding your financial aid before you come to campus.

Meet Quatez Scott

PH.D. candidate, Educational Theory and Social Foundations, Cincinnati

“I was initially just going to pay for school and go part time. But UToledo launched a new diversity ambassador fellowship, and I was awarded a fellowship. The Dean’s Scholars and Fellows program put me in a position to pay much less for school, thus being able to focus more on my academics. I’m now in a real position to complete my Ph.D. in less than four years.”

Graduate or Professional Student

Your Financial Aid How-To Guide

Meet Quatez Scott

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