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This webpage provides  students, families, and institutions with information about the College  Financing Plan. The College Financing Plan has been previously referred to as  the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet.

  The  College Financing Plan is a consumer tool that participating institutions use  to notify students about their financial aid package. It is a standardized form  that is designed to simplify the information that prospective students receive  about costs and financial aid so that they can easily compare institutions and  make informed decisions about where to attend school. In July 2012, the U.S.  Department of Education (Department) released the College Financing Plan and asked institutions to  voluntarily commit to using it to supply financial aid information to students  in a way that could be understood and compared easily. The College Financing  Plan became available for use beginning in the 2013-2014 award year.  

In  2020, the Department released an additional form to reflect the needs of  graduate and professional school students more accurately. The Department  worked with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, the National Association of  College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), financial aid administrators  and other stakeholders, and received valuable input to create the Graduate and  Professional school form.  

**HTML Specification**

  Institutions and their software providers may use the attached  HTML specifications to produce and populate the College Financing Plan, using  the applicable fields from their existing data systems. The HTML specifications  include a “download” button on the College Financing Plan so that students may  save their student aid offer information in XML, a machine-readable format.  This XML layout is also attached. We encourage institutions providing students  with their College Financing Plan in electronic format to include this feature.

  Institutions delivering the College Financing Plan in print form  may remove the “download” button. For convenience, a PDF version of the College  Financing Plan is also attached.

  Questions may be directed to collegefinancingplan@ed.gov

The CFP is updated annually, and this website lists only the most up to date version. 

**Documents**:

  Undergraduate  form:

2024-25 Annotated Undergraduate College Financing Plan 2024-25 Undergraduate College Financing Plan Template 2024-25 Undergraduate College Financing Plan Technical Guide2024-25 Undergraduate  HTML Specification

   Graduate/Professional Form: 

2024-25 Annotated Graduate/Professional School College  Financing Plan 2024-25 Graduate/Professional College Financing Plan Template 2024-25 Graduate/Professional College Financing Plan  Technical Guide2024-25 Graduate/Professional  HTML Specification

**Other**:
2024-25 College Financing Plan (FAQ) (updated 3/19/2024)
24-25 Electronic Announcement: https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/electronic-announcements/2023-10-31/2024-2025-college-financing-plan

 

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