Financial Aid Information

Submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at fafsa.gov as soon as possible after October 1 of your senior year in high school. List Bellarmine as a school to receive your information. Bellarmine’s school code is 001954. There will be opportunities to make adjustments if your circumstances change.

Scholarships, grants or loans provided by Bellarmine University.

Scholarships, grants or loans provided by the Federal Government.

Scholarships, grants or loans provided by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Students will begin receiving scholarship award notices shortly after they are admitted to Bellarmine.

We discourage our students from participating in any search that requires a fee for an agency to find scholarships or grants. Applying for need-based aid is free, and in our experience these search agencies only tend to turn up federal sources you could locate on your own.

The Bellarmine Scholar and Bellarmine Fellow scholarships, awarded to entering first-year students, are Bellarmine’s most prestigious academic scholar-ships. The Bellarmine Scholar Award includes full tuition, fees, room and board with a study abroad stipend. The Bellarmine Fellow Award includes full tuition with a study abroad stipend. The application deadline is December 1 and an essay with the topic “Describe an incident or situation in your life which piqued your intellectual curiosity” is required. Essays are reviewed and students are invited to interview with faculty. After the interviews, five students are selected to receive each award.

This depends on the amount of the outside scholarships and on whether we have been able to meet your need with other aid. Please notify us when you find out you have received an outside scholarship, and we will notify you of any changes to your existing aid by sending you a revised aid offer. Outside scholarships do not replace the Student Aid Index. Instead, they must be counted as financial aid and deducted from the amount of aid eligibility. Bellarmine encourages students to pursue scholarships from other agencies.

Only United States citizens and eligible non-citizens can file the FAFSA to apply for federal and state need-based aid. All other students, including those in the U.S. on an F1 or F2 student visa, are ineligible. Merit scholarships are available to international students through Bellarmine's Office of Admission.

You must re-apply for need-based aid each year. Assuming that your financial situation stays the same and you maintain satisfactory academic progress, your aid should stay about the same from year to year. Changes in family size, or your parents’ income and assets can have an effect on your financial aid offer. Merit scholarships are automatically renewed each year provided you maintain the requirements.

At Bellarmine we offer several payment options to fit your need and financial situation. You can pay your bill off all at once or at the beginning of each semester. We also offer monthly plan options spreading the balance out over the course of as many as ten months and as few as five.

To The Student Aid Index (SAI) is a number that colleges use to determine how much financial aid a student may qualify for. The SAI, a formula-based index number ranging from -1500 to 999999, is calculated using information from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form and is based on a student’s family’s financial situation. The SAI is not a dollar amount, and it doesn’t indicate how much a family is expected to contribute. A negative SAI indicates you have a higher financial need.

• Dependent Verification Worksheet
• Independent Verification Worksheet
• Parent PLUS Loan
• Grad PLUS Loan
• Family Size Form

• Dependent Verification Worksheet
• Independent Verification Worksheet
• Parent PLUS Loan
• Grad PLUS Loan
• Family Size Form