The best place to start your financial aid search is the Financial Aid landing page. The Institutional Aid and Private Aid tabs on this page correspond to the two types of financial aid search in Ferguson's:
- Institutional Aid - Financial aid that a particular school/institution offers
- Private Aid - Scholarships, grants, prizes, and loans from private sources
The financial aid search tools allow you to see multiple financial aid results at once and filter those results. Financial aid listings are also accessible individually through general search.
See also How to Learn More about Financial Aid
To search for institutional financial aid:
- On the hamburger menu, in the Plan Your Education section, select "Financial Aid." (This option is also available in the Plan Your Education card on the Homepage.)
- Click on the Institutional Aid tab to search for financial aid offered by a particular school or institution. By default, results are sorted by School Name, but you can also sort by Need Based or Non-Need-Based aid amount.
- To access aid information for a particular school by name, start typing a school name in the School field, and then select from the list of matching names in the drop-down menu, as shown below.
The school you select will get added to results and also display beneath the School field. You can then search for additional schools by name.
- You can also filter by Aid to International Students, Aid Type, and Sources of Available Aid.
- The more criteria you choose, the narrower your search results will be.
- To reset a particular filter, click the "Reset" link for that filter.
- To clear all filters, click the "Clear All Filters" button.
- To view a full listing of information for a school, click the school name in the search results to go to the institutional aid profile for that school.
- The institutional aid information for a school is a tab on the Undergraduate school profile:
To search for private aid:
- On the hamburger menu, in the Plan Your Education section, select "Financial Aid." (This option is also available in the Plan Your Education card on the Homepage.)
- To search for private aid (scholarships, grants, prizes, and loans from private sources), click on the Private Aid tab. By default, the results are sorted A to Z, but you can also sort by Z to A or Scholarship amount.
- You can filter by Areas of Study, Award Type, Renewable, and High School Students Eligible.
- The more criteria you choose, the narrower your search results will be.
- To reset a particular filter, click the "Reset" link for that filter.
- To clear all filters, click the "Clear All Filters" button.
- To view a full private aid listing, click the listing in the search results to go to the full profile.
- The full listing includes overview, program information, application information, and eligibility requirements.
