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Financial Aid
UIC’s Office of Student Financial Aid establishes the cost of attendance budgets to determine students’ financial aid eligibility in order to provide students and their families a cost estimate for attending UIC. The budgets include tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and other expenses.The office also offers information about the many loans, grants, scholarships and fellowships that are available to assist students and their families in covering college-related costs.
For more information about cost, fees or financial aid, visit the Office of Student Financial Aid. To learn more about how to pay your bill, contact our University Student Financial Services and Cashier Operations (USFCO) office.
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Funding opportunities for College of Education students
Undergraduate
- Ayn Rand Essay Scholarships
- Black Alliance for Educational Options Scholarships
- Capstone Loan
- Coca-Cola Two Year College Scholarships
- GE and LuLac Scholarship Funds
- Gates Millennium Scholarships
- Gateways to Opportunity Scholarship Program
- Golden Apple Foundation
- Holocaust Remembrance Scholarships
- Illinois National Guard (ING) Grant
- Illinois Veteran's Grant (IVG)
- International Students Scholarships & Aid Help
- Naomi Kaye Scholarship (pdf)
- Siemens Westinghouse Competition
- The Roothbert Scholarship Fund
- Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
- UIC Scholarship Association Scholarships
- Xerox Scholarships for Students
Graduate
- Board of Trustees Tuition & Selected Fees Waiver
Deadlines: March 1, June 1, November 1
College of Education Application form (pdf) - Gateways to Opportunity Scholarship Program
- INCCRRA Gateways to Opportunity Scholarship
- James Madison Memorial Fellowship
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship (pdf) DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 6/1/2012
- Naomi Kaye Scholarship (pdf) DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 6/22/2012
- Abraham Lincoln Fellowship
- Dean's Scholar Award
- Diversifying Faculty in Higher Education in Illinois
- Provost’s and Deiss Awards for Graduate Research
- Student Presenter Awards
- University Fellowship
Teacher candidates
- Board of Trustees Tuition & Selected Fees Waiver
- Federal Perkins Loan Cancellation
- Gateways to Opportunity Scholarship Program
- INCCRRA Gateways to Opportunity Scholarship
- Illinois Future Teacher Corps
- Illinois Special Education Teacher Tuition Waiver
- Illinois Teachers and Child Care Providers Loan Repayment Program
- James Madison Memorial Fellowship
- Lillian and Samuel Sutton Education Scholarship
- Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship
- Naomi Kaye Scholarship (pdf)
- TEACH Grants
- Application (pdf)
- Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program (pdf)
- Thomas H. Reece Memorial Teacher Education Scholarship
- USA Funds Access to Education Scholarship
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