Financial Aid

Marlboro College Graduate School is dedicated to helping you earn your degree. The federal government offers loans for graduate study. For your convenience, Marlboro College has partnered with the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), which offers low-interest loans through banks, credit unions, schools, and other lenders.

What should I do and when?

You should complete a FAFSA at least 30 days prior to the start of your program. The FAFSA is required to determine if you are eligible for financial aid.
You should register online for your courses as soon as the site becomes available. In order to determine how much aid you may be eligible for we must know how many credits you will be taking.
If you plan to borrow federal Stafford loans you should complete entrance counseling, this explains your rights and responsibilities for borrowing a federal loan. The websites are listed above.
If you have any questions, contact the Financial Aid office at (802) 258-9312 or finaid@marlboro.edu.

Graduate and BSMIS students new to the Graduate School can begin to invest themselves by following these three easy steps:

Complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) - online at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov. (Marlboro College Graduate School's school code is 003690).
Complete loan counseling online (required by all student borrowers) at
http://mappingyourfuture.org/se for Stafford loan only borrowers or
http://mappingyourfuture.org/sge for Stafford and Graduate Plus loan borrowers.
Choose a lender. You are not required to choose a lender from our list. We make this list available to help with your selection. Lender List (pdf).

How will I know if I am financial aid eligible?

Once you have registered online for your courses and they have been approved for your program of study, the financial aid office will determine if we have received your FAFSA. If we have, we will calculate a financial aid award and will mail you an award letter. Your award letter will provide instruction on other things such as completing loan reply forms (if you are borrowing loans), details about declining aid, entrance counseling and federal verification among other things.

How often will I need to fill out a FAFSA?

The short answer is 30 days before each fall trimester starts. Your financial aid award will be split over the number of trimesters in your award year. A financial aid award year begins with the fall trimester and includes the winter and spring trimesters of the following calendar year. Example: fall 2009, winter 2010, spring 2010 makes one full financial aid award year. After your first trimester (when you will have filled out FAFSA at least 30 days prior to the star of your first trimester) you will need a new FAFSA before every fall trimester that you plan to enroll in classes.

Veterans Benefit Policy

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If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Kathy Urffer in the Registrar's Office at 802-258-9206 or via e-mail.

Foundation Awards

Marlboro College Graduate School is proud to serve the educational needs of working adults. Toward that end, the Graduate School developed a curriculum and schedule that allows highly motivated students to complete our Master's Degrees within 11 months, the MBA in Managing for Sustainability in 24 months, and the Bachelor of Science in Managing Information in 24 months. At the same time, the center realizes that such an accelerated program brings exceptional demands to students - both academic and financial. Students who exhibit this level of dedication demonstrate a desire and capacity to excel, and Marlboro College Graduate School believes they should be rewarded. It is in that spirit that the GC Foundation Award has been created. This award provides a $1,000 reduction in tuition, which is applied to the final trimester bill.

To be eligible to receive a Foundation Award, a student must:

Enroll at the Graduate School as a full-time student
Maintain satisfactory academic progress for all trimesters
Complete their program in a one-year period (MAT, MSIT), two-years (MBA), or by maintaining 12 credits a trimester for however long that takes to complete the BSMIS program.
Register for sufficient and appropriate credits in the final trimester so that by the end of that trimester all graduation requirements will be complete
Apply in writing for the award prior to the start of the first trimester explaining how he or she will make life adaptations to be able to complete the strenuous program within the allotted time.
Maintain good financial standing with the college during all trimesters and have no outstanding balance at the start of the final trimester.

To apply for this award, please contact our admissions office at 258-9209 or at jheslin@gradschool.marlboro.edu.

Note - This scholarship does not apply to the MSM Health Care program.

Additional resources

Forms

Borrowing loans require that you select your lender. The following forms correspond to the types of educational loans in which graduate and/or undergraduate students can apply for.