Your award notification assumes that you will attend MSU full-time. Awards may be cancelled or reduced if your enrollment drops below full-time at any point in a semester. Refer to Table A below for the specific enrollment requirements of most common financial aid programs and Table B for the relationship between your academic level, the number of credits you are taking, and your enrollment status.
(1) If you change enrollment prior to the quarter of term, the award will be adjusted as appropriate. If you change enrollment after the quarter of term, the award will not be adjusted.
(2) If the Office of Financial Aid, in consultation with the Registrar's Office, is unable to confirm that you attended a course, your Pell Grant will be adjusted to remove those credits from your enrollment status. This may result in a charge appearing on your MSU account.
(3) If a student enrolls less than full time in a term or drops courses after their loan has been disbursed, this may result in the application of the Schedule of Reductions the next time a loan is disbursed for that academic year. For guidance, contact Spartan One-Stop.
Note 1: If you receive financial aid and withdraw from the University, you may be required to repay a portion of the financial aid received for the semester in which the withdrawal occurs. A withdrawal calculation is performed by the Office of Financial Aid.
Note 2: If you have an award not referenced in Table A, please contact the Office of Financial Aid for additional information regarding the unlisted award. Table A references only the most frequently awarded aid programs.
The number of credits shown is to determine enrollment status for financial aid purposes and may not necessarily follow the University's guidelines. The University Registrar publishes University requirements in the Academic Programs Catalog for Undergraduate and Graduate students. The number of credits shown is also used to determine the length of the academic year for purposes of calculating the Schedule of Reductions. The academic year is generally considered to be two terms (e.g., an undergraduate’s academic year is 24 credits.