QuestBridge Match Scholars

Federal Work-Study is included in your aid package if you are eligible. Federal Work-Study is paid out to students via a weekly paycheck as you earn it, it does not apply directly to your student account charges. Please keep this in mind when comparing your award to your charges in planning for the cost of your education. You can either elect to save work-study earnings and apply them to a future bill or use these earning to help pay for expenses while at BU.

Billed Expenses – Billed expenses include Tuition, Food & Housing, and mandatory fees that pay for the ancillary services you have access to while attending BU. These expenses will be posted to your MyBU Student Portal and reflected in your Fall and Spring Bills. Each semester, your QuestBridge Scholarship will be posted to your student account and if you have a credit as a result you can request a refund to help pay for other expenses.

Non-Billed Expenses – In addition to the billed expenses included on your student account, student’s will also have indirect costs associated with attending BU. These are expenses that BU does not directly bill students for such as books, travel to and from BU, or personal expenses. We have included an estimate of these additional expenses in our standard cost of attendance. If you have a credit on your account you can request a refund to help pay for these expenses. Work-study earnings are also a great tool to help cover these additional costs.

During your study abroad semester, your award will be updated for the cost of attendance for your specific study abroad program. If you enroll in a less expensive study abroad program, your award will be reduced to fit within your new cost of attendance.

BU will add a travel allowance to the estimated total cost of attendance. Students are expected to cover their own travel expenses using a combination of savings and/or work-study funds. BU will not reimburse or provide direct funds for travel to and from campus.

If you have an eligible credit available on your account, you can request a refund for this amount to help pay for educational expenses not billed by BU, including travel. Refunds are not available until the first day of classes each semester.