The financial aid offer is a summary of the your estimated costs and aid based on your student profile. This is not your bill - it is a financial planning tool to help you map your expenses for the upcoming year.
Financial Aid Offers for Admitted Students
If you have not submitted your enrollment deposit, you can review your aid offer by accessing your admission undergraduate applicant portal.
If you have submitted your enrollment deposit, you can review your aid offer in the Costs and Aid tab of TUPortal.
Financial Aid Offers for Deposited & Returning Students
Financial aid offers are posted to the Costs and Aid tab of the TUportal for returning students, and are accessible from the TUPortal for new students who submit their enrollment deposit.
- Select View My Financial Aid Offer to view the offier - print to PDF in Landscape to save a copy for your records.
- Select Financial Aid Package to accept or decline loans and/or federal work study. Grants and scholarship are automatically accepted on your behalf and do not require that action.
Temple University is committed to using the Principles & Standards of the College Cost Transparency Initiative in its financial aid offer.
Student loan amounts may reflect lender deductions of origination fees, leading your aid offer to differ slightly from your statement. Federal work study funds do not pay to the bill, so they are not included on the statement.
Right to Cancel
Students and parent borrowers receiving federal student loan funding or the TEACH grant have the right to cancel all or a portion of the annual funding or semester disbursement and have the funding returned to the Department of Education. You have a minimum of 14 days from the statement date to request that a loan be cancelled in part or full. This request must be submitted in writing to Student Financial Services.
Refunds
Most financial aid disburses 2-3 business days prior to the start of each term, provided that you have satisfied any outstanding requirements and meet the enrollment requirements for each type of aid offered to you. Less than full-time registration may result in a delay in private loan and PLUS disbursements to ensure your Cost of Attendance is accurate and the amount of aid processed fits within your budget. Federal financial aid is only applicable to current institutional charges, in compliance with federal regulations. Private aid and out of pocket payments (i.e., cash, check, or credit card) may be applied to outstanding balances before being applied to current institutional charges.
You can view your charges and financial aid disbursements on the printable Student Account Statement located on the Costs & Aid tab of TUPortal. Additionally, you can log into TUPay from the Costs & Aid tab to view the Current Account Activity for a similar summary of charges and payments. Undisbursed aid may be shown as "anticipated" aid on student accounts, so you should check your Statement for disbursement information.
A refund can be processed when a credit balance exists on a student's account as a result of any personal payment, financial aid, or combination of payment types that exceeds the total of institutional charges on the account. Credit balances are generally released as refunds within 48 hours of disbursement. With the exception of the federal Parent PLUS loan, credit balance refunds are issued to the student via paper check or direct deposit. Students may update their refund choice through TUPay. Parent-borrowers may choose how the a refund from the Parent PLUS loan is issued - either to the student or to the parent-borrower. Parent-borrowers who are also Authorized Payers have the option of signing up for Direct Deposit.
Information on how to manage your refund, including the forms for reducing or cancelling loans, and more detailed information on how refunds are processed, is located on the Managing Your Refund page of the this website.
Common Financial Aid Terms
Below are some terms and phrases you will come across in reviewing your financial aid. It is important to be familiar with them, as doing so will help you understand the information on your financial aid offer.