Campus Based Programs

The
1) Federal Perkins Loan
2) Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOG)
3) Federal Work Study
are programs called campus based programs because they are administered directly by the financial aid office at each participating school. Not all schools participate in all three programs. Check with your school's financial aid office to find out which programs they participate in.

How much aid you receive from each of these programs depends on your financial need, on the amount of other aid you receive, and on the availability of funds at your college or career school. The campus based programs provide a certain amount of funds for each participating school to administer each year. When the money for a program is gone, no more awards can be made from that program for that year. Make sure you apply for federal student aid as early as you can. Each school sets its own deadlines for campus-based funds, and those deadlines are usually earlier than the Department of Education's deadline for filing a FAFSA (which, for 2003-2004, is June 30, 2004).

For more information about filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) go to:
www.fafsa.ed.gov/

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