Learning More About Financial Aid
and Money Management
- Tigers Credit Union
- provides tips and training on banking, loans, and credit cards.
- MU Office of Financial Success
- provides information on bankruptcy, debt managements and financial planning.
- University of Missouri Extension Publication
- This pdf, Living on Less provides helpful hints on money management, better ways to shop, how to manage personal habits, and cost-saving travel.
- Scholarship Help
- Provides a general overview of the process of applying for scholarships.
- Finaid.org information on other kinds of aid
- Specifically helps graduate students search for scholarships and other forms of financial aid such as loans and military aid. Application forms and instructions are found through this site.
- Access Group
- Helps potential and current graduate students search for loans that could help them with graduate school, medical school, dental school, law school or international study. Application procedures are provided, as well as information about repayment. There are also tips on how to finance your education in five easy steps.
- Fellowships.gradschools.com
- Provides lists of fellowships available throughout the country. The list provides the name of the institution, specifics about the fellowship and application procedures. Updated regularly.
- Gradloans.com
- Gives information about student loans (what they mean for students financially and legally); Stafford and Perkins loans; private and federal loans; loan deferment; and how to avoid loan default.
- Next Student
- Here, students can find out if they are eligible for 60% loan consolidation through the federal government. Simply provide information about the amount of the loan, and you will instantly find out if you are eligible. If you are not, a phone number for Next Student Education Finance Advisers is given. The advisers can help you find a program that will help you to consolidate.
- McPherson, M., & Schapiro, M. (2002). "The blurring line between merit and need in financial aid." Change, 34, p. 38-46.
- The authors explain their findings — that a student’s academic promise is more of an influence on the financial aid s/he receives than his or her family’s demonstrated financial need.
- "Financial Aid and Your Income Tax Return." Chany, K. Princeton Review
- Examines the impacts of the 1040, 1040A and 1040EZ tax forms on the FASFA application process.
- "Comparing Grad School Loans and Their Repayment Options."Diffley, P., & Russo, J. Princeton Review
- In a particularly important section, Diffley and Russo discuss the different loan repayment options available to graduate school students and alumni.
- Chronicle Financial Aid Guide 2003-2004: Scholarships and loans for high school students, college undergraduates, graduates, and adult learners. Chronicle Guidance Publications, Inc.
- Paying For Graduate School Without Going Broke: 2004 Edition. Princeton Review Press.