Financial Aid

For Graduate Degrees: In general, graduate students have very little options of graduate grants, so most help is provided in student loans. Depending on need, there are few types of federal or state subsidized loans that defer payments or interest until graduation occurs. Our school provides some scholarships through our office based on merit, need, and many other criteria. Many of these scholarships are available thanks to many private and public supporters of Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center. Even so, we encourage all our students to search and apply for fellowships available from other sources.

USC's Financial Aid office ( http://www.usc.edu/go/FinancialAid ) provides many important answers to questions about financial aid. Also, here are few links below that might answer some other questions, as well as provide you with some useful tools to figure out tuition costs or interest costs for student loans.

The College Board: Financial aid calculators, scholarship search engine, and the College Scholarship Service/Financial Aid Profile that may be used for nonfederal student aid.

The U.S. Department of Education: This site has a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, as well as a comprehensive Student Guide to Financial Aid.

Fastweb.com: Access to 40,000 scholarships through a search engine.

FinAid: The SmartStudent¿ Guide to Financial Aid: Comprehensive site with calculators, and information on plans for prepaid tuition.

Nellie Mae: Applications for loans, saving options for college, and loan status check.

SallieMae: Many useful calculators, hosts other info on financial aid. Offers a wide selection of college financing solutions.