{"id":75186,"date":"2014-03-24T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=75186"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:07:33","slug":"financial-aid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/admin\/student-systems\/financial-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\" bu-callout alignright\"><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"tw icon-mapmarker\"><\/span> Quick Start<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available to:<\/strong> Students, Staff, Departments, Prospective Students, New\/Incoming Students<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost: <\/strong>No charge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"#GettingStarted\">Getting Started<\/a>, below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Financial Aid service offers functionality to help students and their parents gauge the cost of education, as well as tools to calculate financial eligibility.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<div><span>By providing appropriate and convenient access to real-time, relevant financial assistance information, this service shortens the time required to deliver decisions and responses to changes in student circumstances and ensures compliance with all Federal Financial Aid regulations<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Key Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrates and communicates with Federal government systems<\/li>\n<li>Assists in calculating financial aid eligibility, and provides information on:\n<ul>\n<li>Financial Aid status<\/li>\n<li>Any awards (providing student is eligible)<\/li>\n<li>Eligibility requirements that need to be fulfilled before Financial Aid can be awarded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Delivers information and transactional functionality through a variety of targeted portals<\/li>\n<li>Provides distributed management tools to administrators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What to Expect<\/h2>\n<p>This service normally will be available 24 by 7 except for standard change windows, as described in <a href=\"\/tech\/about\/service\/change\/\">IS&amp;T\u2019s standard policies, procedures, and schedules for making changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BU login account is required to access functionality on MyBU Student<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Students: In <a href=\"http:\/\/mybustudent.bu.edu\/\">MyBU Student<\/a>, select the \u201cFinancials\u201d tab.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A drop down menu will show various selections.<\/li>\n<li>Administrators: In <a href=\"http:\/\/mybustudent.bu.edu\/\">MyBU Student<\/a>, click on the \u201cFinancial Aid\u201d tile.<\/li>\n<li>Certain distributed administrative functions may require additional training from central administration or their department. Individuals should check with their unit\u2019s Data Security Administrator (DSA) for training availability.<\/li>\n<li>Staff of the Financial Aid office requiring access to the Financial Aid service components on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybustudent.bu.edu\/\">MyBU Student<\/a> should contact their unit\u2019s Data Security Administrator (DSA) to request correct permissions for access to functions and data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Aid service offers functionality that helps students and their parents gauge the cost of education, as well as tools to calculate financial eligibility&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1356,"featured_media":0,"parent":12350,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75186"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161067,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75186\/revisions\/161067"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}