Resources
Financial aid offer guide
Required reading about the conditions of your financial aid offers.
Your responsibilities
- Review the Financial Aid Portal in Academica regularly for outstanding requirements or to review and accept your awards.
- Check your WSU email and read all materials sent to you from the Office of Student Financial Aid.
- File and renew a FAFSA every year if you wish to be considered for aid.
- Read and comply with the academic and registration calendar
- Pay your student accounts receivable bill (eBill) regardless of your financial aid status.
Keeping your awards
Maintaining financial aid eligibility is an annual process. Not only must you reapply for financial aid every year, but our office is required to monitor your eligibility throughout each year.
- Your participation in each course must be confirmed by each instructor. Your aid may be reduced or canceled if your participation is not confirmed.
- You must maintain at least half-time enrollment to remain eligible for most types of financial aid funds.
- You must maintain satisfactory academic progress toward your degree or certificate.
- You must complete courses. Withdrawing from one class or all classes can negatively affect your eligibility to retain the funds awarded and/or disbursed to you.
Do you have a financial aid plan?
A good academic plan includes calculating how much financial aid will be available to you. Federal aid and many WSU scholarships and grants have annual and lifetime limits.
Federal Pell Grant limits: Receipt of the Federal Pell Grant is limited to 12 semesters of awards for full-time enrollment.
Federal loan limits: Federal Direct Loans (subsidized and unsubsidized) have annual and lifetime limits. Once you reach the limits, you will be ineligible to borrow additional loans. In general, you may not receive subsidized loans for more than 150% of the published length of your program.
WSU tuition pledge program limits: Programs such as the Wayne State Guarantee and Heart of Detroit are awarded for four consecutive years to new first-year undergraduates. Recipients are expected to demonstrate degree progress by passing 30 credits each academic year and maintaining satisfactory academic progress.
WSU scholarship limits: Most scholarships are awarded to new first-year undergraduates for four years only and to new transfer students for two years only. Recipients are expected to demonstrate degree progress by passing 30 credits each academic year and maintaining satisfactory academic progress.
Using Academica
Under Student Resources, click the Financial Aid link
Accept your financial aid offers
Check your satisfactory academic progress status
Review your overall aid status
Select your aid year
- The 2025-26 academic year includes fall 2025, winter 2026, and spring/summer 2026.
- The 2026-27 academic year includes fall 2026, winter 2027, and spring/summer 2027.