Financial Aid News

We regret that the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) continues to experience delays in delivering 2024-2025 FAFSA data to colleges and universities across the country.  Tulane University now expects to start receiving 2024-2025 FAFSA data from DOE by the end of April 2024.  If you have completed the 2024-2025 FAFSA, then please ignore your Tulane Gibson portal “To Do” listing that currently indicates that this requirement still needs to be completed.  Once Tulane receives your FAFSA data, then your Gibson records will be updated.  We recommend that those students who have completed the 2024-2025 FAFSA should check Gibson by June 1, 2024, to confirm that DOE has successfully sent your FAFSA data to Tulane.   

Incoming full-time undergraduate students:

The Tulane University Financial Aid Office (FAO) has commenced reviewing completed 2024-2025 financial aid applications for incoming freshmen admitted via the Undergraduate Admission Office’s Early Decision and Early Action portals.

At this time, due to the delayed access to the 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), all aid offers currently extended are solely based on our review of a student’s 2024-2025 College Scholarship Services (CSS) Profile application and consist of “estimated” federal student aid eligibility and “estimated” institutional need-based scholarship.  While we expect that our “estimated” aid levels are fairly accurate, it will only be after our receipt and review of a student’s 2024-2025 FAFSA data, that we will issue an updated aid notification detailing all federal student aid and institutional need-based scholarship eligibility levels.  Changes to aid offers would occur if reported FAFSA information did not match comparable information reported on the CSS Profile and/or if federal grant calculations and/or allocation levels change.  

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING 2024-2025 FAFSA Processing (updated 03/29/24) Due to the multitude of changes surrounding the 2024-2025 FAFSA (such as changing access; reducing the volume of questions; and changing the federal methodology used in determining eligibility for federal student aid resources), the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) delayed the access to the online 2024-2025 FAFSA until 12/31/23.  While the 2024-2025 FAFSA is now available for online completion, DOE is now delaying the transmittal of completed 2024-2025 FAFSA data to your designated colleges and universities.  The latest guidance from DOE and the student system vendor indicates that although Tulane may start receiving electronic 2024-2025 FAFSA data by late March, the Tulane Financial Aid Office will be able to upload the data at the earliest at the end of April (NOT mid-February or late March) 2024.  Therefore, please understand that if have already completed the 2024-2025 FAFSA, yet our Gibson portal does not reflect Tulane’s receipt of your FAFSA, it is most likely due to the delay in DOE’s transmission and/or the late ability to configure and upload the transmission into the student system. Once the Tulane FAO receives 2024-2025 FAFSA data in the student system for an admitted applicant offered "estimated" aid, then we will commence our review of the fully completed aid application, reviewing all  "estimated" offers for accuracy.

Returning full-time undergraduate students: Students continuing their full-time undergraduate enrollment at Tulane during the 2024-2025 academic year and who seek consideration for federal student aid resources and/or Tulane institutional need-based scholarship should plan to complete the necessary 20254-2025 financial aid application materials by April 15, 2024.

Incoming and returning graduate & professional students: All graduate and professional students seeking consideration for federal student aid resources should be completing the 2024-2025 FAFSA.  Students are also encouraged to complete the appropriate 2024-2025 Tulane Financial Aid Addendum associated with your student population, as this supplement addendum collects additional information used to provide an accurate level of financial assistance based on your expected enrollment and borrowing intentions.

Once your Tulane school confirms their 2024-2025 tuition and fees schedule and academic calendar, we will commence reviewing all completed 2024-2025 aid applications and extending notifications of aid offers.

Incoming and returning SoPA students: All undergraduate and graduate students enrolling at Tulane’s School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) seeking consideration for federal student aid resources should be completing the 2024-2025 FAFSA. Students are also encouraged to complete the appropriate 2024-2025 Tulane Financial Aid Addendum associated with your student population, as this supplement addendum collects additional information used to provide an accurate level of financial assistance based on your expected enrollment and borrowing intentions.

Once SoPA confirms their 2024-2025 tuition and fees schedule and academic calendar, we will commence reviewing all completed 2024-2025 aid applications and extending notifications of aid offers.

All students seeking financial assistance for 2024-2025: All Tulane students seeking consideration for financial assistance are encouraged to review the details of the aid application process that are available at: https://financialaid.tulane.edu/apply.

Due to the 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) experiencing a multitude of changes (such as changing access; reducing the volume of questions; and changing the federal methodology used in determining eligibility for federal student aid resources), the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) originally delayed the access to the online 2024-2025 FAFSA until 12/31/23.  While the 2024-2025 FAFSA is now available for online completion, DOE is now delaying the transmittal of completed 2024-2025 FAFSA data to your designated colleges and universities.  The latest guidance from DOE indicates that Tulane should expect to start receiving electronic 2024-2025 FAFSA data by late-March 2024 at the earliest.  Therefore, please understand that if have already completed the 2024-2025 FAFSA, yet our Gibson portal does not reflect receipt of the FAFSA, it is due to this delay in receipt of the information. https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa

Incoming and returning graduate & professional students and all School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) students: All graduate and professional and SoPA students seeking consideration for federal student aid resources should complete the 2024-2025 FAFSA at this time.  Students are also encouraged to complete the appropriate 2024-2025 Tulane Financial Aid Addendum associated with your student population, as this supplement addendum collects additional information used to provide an accurate level of financial assistance based on your expected enrollment and borrowing intentions.

For incoming and continuing graduate & professional students, once your Tulane school confirms their 2024-2025 tuition and fees schedule and academic calendar, we will commence reviewing all completed 2024-2025 FAFSA applications received.  New incoming students must first receive an offer of admission before we initiate a review of their FAFSA data.  Returning students must be meeting all federal satisfactory academic progress criteria to retain federal aid eligibility. https://financialaid.tulane.edu/resources/eligibility/sap

2024 Summer Semester aid applicants will need to complete the 2023-2024 FAFSA BEFORE access to the online 2023-2024 FAFSA ends June 30, 2024, and to complete the appropriate Tulane 2024 Summer Addendum (soon to be available under the Forms section of our website).

Join Tulane Law School for the annual celebration of Constitution Day. 

The event will be held Sept. 18, 2023 at 4 p.m. in the John Giffen Weinmann Hall, Room 110, 6329 Freret Street.

This year’s Constitution Day speaker is David Hinojosa, with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. His talk is titled, From Hallowing Brown to Hollowing Brown: The Equal Protection Clause and the Affirmative Action Cases. Hinojosa argued the UNC case before the Supreme Court on behalf of student intervenors, and the Harvard case in the First Circuit on behalf of student amici. Hinojosa also serves as lead counsel representing the Charlotte Mecklenburg NAACP Branch in the historic North Carolina school finance case, Leandro v. State, where he helped obtain a precedent-setting order from the state supreme court that will ensure equitable resources for students of color and students in at-risk circumstances.