Financing your University of Chicago education, complicated as it may seem at first, is a matter of straightforward choices. In Financial Aid, we focus on counseling graduate and professional students as they navigate these choices in order to best finance their education. We strive to educate both prospective and current graduate and professional students on responsible borrowing and help them make the best decision for their situation given the funds available to them. Our mission is to ensure that UChicago graduate students understand the financial aid process when they are in school and are aware of their responsibilities as loan borrowers when their time at the University has been completed.
The Graduate Financial Aid Office serves the financial aid needs of the following academic divisions:
You may upload any documents that you need to send us by logging in to my.UChicago.edu, navigating to “My Financial Aid” and using the “Upload Application Materials” link. Your documents will be uploaded to your account and we will have record of them within a half hour. This is a totally secure method of sharing sensitive documents with us and is the preferred method for sending us information. Directions can be found here.
The mailing address for the Office of Financial Aid has changed. The new mailing address is:
Office of Financial Aid
1101 E. 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Third-Party Scholarship Notice: To avoid any delays in processing, all third-party scholarship checks should be sent directly to the Office of the Bursar
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has temporarily suspended federal student loan payments. For more information on this and other coronavirus-related relief programs for students, please see our COVID-19 FAQs.
As of Spring Quarter, all student stipends will be paid from the Workday system. You can find more information here.
Current fourth-year College students have a unique opportunity to receive a one-year scholarship to pursue select postgraduate programs in 2023-2024. Click here for additional information.
The 2023-2024 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is now available.
Be sure to include school code 001774 on your 2023-24 FAFSA.