Financial Planning Money Management, Budgets, and Financial Planning How to manage your money may be one of the most important things you need to learn during the next few years. The cost of attending college continues to rise, and the amount of financial aid available has not kept up.
Few families are able to finance four or more years of college without careful planning.
To help you in your financial planning, the Office of Student Financial Aid has developed expense budgets for various categories of students. These budgets are developed through the use of local and national research data and are updated periodically. They give our current best estimate of the full cost of attending Iowa State University for nine months. Contact the Office of Student Financial Aid for information about these budgets. Money management is a personal matter, and you will need to find the system that works best for you.