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Financial Aid

Your education is priceless. Together, we can make Notre Dame affordable.

Notre Dame of Maryland University offers grants, scholarships, loans, and federal Work-Study funds to eligible entering and continuing students. About 95 percent of Women’s College students, 35 percent of undergraduates in the College of Adult Undergraduate Studies , 30 percent of graduate students and 97 percent of our Pharmacy students  receive need-based and/or non-need-based financial aid.

Students must reapply for aid each subsequent year, beginning in January. Most financial aid is renewable, provided that the student continues to meet federal and university eligibility criteria. 


You can find more information about eligibility, costs, and the financial aid awarding process at Notre Dame by following the links on this page. For information about applying for aid, see the How to Apply section.

Announcements

SAP Policy Changes

  • The Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements changed effective July 1, 2011. Please review the SAP policy on this website to ensure that you are familiar with the new requirements.

2012-13 Loan Changes

  • Generally, graduate and professional students could borrow up to $20,500 in Stafford loans per year, of which as much as $8,500 could be subsidized. Graduate and professional students will still be able to borrow up to $20,500 in Stafford loans, but the loans will be entirely unsubsidized starting with new loans made on or after July 1, 2012.
  • Currently, borrowers in the Direct Loan program could get two discounts. The first discount rebates half of the 1% loan fee for borrowers who make the first 12 payments on time. The second discount is a 0.25% interest rate reduction for borrowers who have their monthly loan payments withdrawn automatically from their bank accounts. The prompt payment discount will be eliminated for new loans starting on July 1, 2012, while the auto-debit discount will be retained.

IRS Match for 2012-13 FAFSA

  • 2012-13 FAFSA submission: be sure to meet the February 15 deadline. You may estimate income information. After taxes have been filed, be sure to log back into FAFSA and then choose IRS data match to import your 2011 tax information. This will avoid processing delays.

Imaging System for 2012-13

  • The Office of Financial Aid is going green. We will be scanning documents submitted by students and parent and working towards becoming a paperless office. To that end, we ask that you print clearly on all forms and stay tuned for further updates.