Once you have accepted your unconditinal offer from us, you will need to complete the following process.
Step 1 - Complete a FAFSA
You will need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. The form will ask you to include the institution's Federal School Code. For Staffordshire University this is: 042757.
Step 2 - Contact us
Once your Student Aid Report (SAR) or Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) has been generated, please contact us with the following:
- Full Name
- Social Security Number
- Date of Birth
- Your Staffordshire University, 8 digit Applicant I.D number
This will allow us to make a full assessment of your application and calculate the amount of funds which you will be able to borrow.
Step 3 - Accepting your loan
We will send an Award Letter to you via email, which will include a Funding Notification offer for your chosen year of study. Please review the information and loan amounts carefully, as these amounts will reflect what we plan to disburse under you Master Promissory Note(s). Please note that you have the right to decline the loan or, to specify and accept a lower loan amount if desired.
Once you have completed this document, please return it to the email address in the Award Letter.
Step 4 - Completing the Master Promissory Note(s)
At this stage you must complete a Master Promissory Note on the US Student Aid website. This is a legal document in which you promise to repay your loans to the US Department of Education.
Please note that if you are accepting a Parent PLUS Loan, as well as Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loans, there will need to be a separate MPN completed.
In addition, an MPN must be completed for each academic year, foreign institutions cannot use multi-year MPNs.
Step 5 - Entrance Counseling
Once Step 4 is complete, all applicants must complete Entrance Counseling. This is a Federal Government requirement, which is there to help and advise, and also ensures that applicants understand the responsibilities assumed when accepting US Financial Aid.
Step 6 - Processing your Loan
Please contact the International Recruitment Inbox once you have completed the previous 2 steps, to allow us to check that we have everything we need, in order to progress to Origination and Disbursement of the loan.
Steps 4, 5 and 6 must be repeated for each academic year that you wish to receive US Financial Aid.