Undergraduate Enrollment Status
Financial Aid Award Notifications are based on an expected full time enrollment for award and cost of attendance determinations. Unless the Financial Aid Office is notified in advance, Billing Statements will reflect full time award values.
Once the semester begins, the Financial Aid Office must confirm that applicants remain eligible for each type of aid awarded based on their established enrollment status. The enrollment status used by the Financial Aid Office is established as of the official “last day to add” published on the academic calendar.
If the applicant's enrollment status is not full time, the cost of attendance will be prorated. A reduction in the cost of attendance can impact the overall financial aid package. Individual awards will be evaluated based on funding enrollment requirements. Potentially, awards may have to be reduced or eliminated.
| Financial Aid Credit Requirements* | ||
|---|---|---|
| (per semester) | ||
| Enrollment | Undergraduate | Graduate |
| Full Time | 12 or more | 9 or more |
| Three-Quarter Time | 9, 10, 11 | |
| Half Time | 6, 7, 8 | 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Less Than Half Time** | .5 to 5.5 | |
*Courses you are not billed for, audits, and Learning Center credits are excluded from the total credits used to calculate financial aid enrollment status. **For financial aid eligibility, a coop assignment is considered less than half time. | ||
The tuition component of the Cost of Attendance is based on average credits.
The list that follows indicates the minimum number of credits required to be considered for a specific type of assistance. Though a student may be enrolled for the minimum required credits for an award, an adjustment to the cost of attendance for a less than full time enrollment may still affect the award amount.
| Minimum Credits for Specific Assistance Types | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarships and University Award | 12 | ||||||||
| Loans: Federal Direct Loans, Federal Perkins, or Tech Aid | 6 | ||||||||
| Work-Study: Federal or State of Michigan | 6 | ||||||||
| Grants: Federal or Michigan Educational Opportunity Grants | 6 | ||||||||
| Federal Pell Grant: | |||||||||
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| Michigan Competitive Scholarship: *MCS will be reduced for 6 through 11 credits | 12* | ||||||||
| Michigan Promise Scholarship | 1 | ||||||||
| Michigan Alumni Award | 1 | ||||||||
To minimize the impact which packaging adjustments can have on your available financial assistance, we recommend that you notify the Financial Aid Office of less than full time enrollment now or in advance of the “last day to add” date. Though you may receive special permission to increase your credit load after that date, financial aid must be based on the “last day to add”. There are no exceptions.
If you will be attending on a part-time basis, complete and submit the annual Less Than Full Time/Full Academic Year Enrollment Form mailed with your award letter or download the form.