For many financial aid recipients in the California State University system, Pell grants are the ballgame. Nearly half of the system’s 460,000-plus undergraduates receive that crucial federal aid, ...

Figuring out where you want to go to college can be hard enough, and finding financial aid can be another headache for students and parents. A local nonprofit in San Antonio wants to help.

Student aid officials in California say there’s been a nearly 9% increase in high school students completing applications for ...

Student aid authorities in California say there’s been a nearly 9% increase in high school students completing applications ...

The California Student Aid Commission’s decision to extend the deadline to submit a request for state financial aid garnered ...

The White House wants to close the federal education agency, but experts say students should fill out the Free Application ...

A lot of rising college freshmen have a different, more basic anxiety, however: They just want to know if they’ll be able to ...

Yang busts some of the myths around the FAFSA and shares tools for determining how much college will actually cost you after ...

So far, despite laying off half of the department’s workforce, they have avoided cuts to the team that works directly on the form, headed by a newly created FAFSA program executive director. But ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) allows students to apply for funding and be considered a recipient of federal student aid. Here are the deadlines.

The move confounded some proponents of the FAFSA requirement. All the policy “did was open up college opportunities to students who didn't have college on their radar because they thought it wou ...