Academic Aid - A guide to financial aid, scholarships, and loans. Please enter email below This list of books will help you achieve your funding goals. Get specific answers to your financial aid questions. The campus-based Federal work student program distributes federal dollars through college to pay for student employment. Work study is a good way to help offset your college costs.
Most schools offer work study as part of the financial aid package.
To qualify for Federal work study, you must have demonstrated need and be enrolled at least half time at either the undergraduate or graduate level. You are under no obligation to accept a work study position but if you find the right job it could end up being much more study than work. Try to avoid positions like working in the dining hall and seek out positions where you can actually study or gain some real experience. Monitoring ID's at the gymnasium or working the front desk at the library will offer you some time to study while working. Working at a computer lab will give you the opportunity to increase your knowledge of computers which could help after graduation.