Non Need Based Loans

Student Employment

Outside Scholarships

Outside Scholarships

Students interested in military training should contact the Military Science Department, Spratt House, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, telephone: 570-577-1246. U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarships covering tuition, fees, and books are available on a competitive basis for a period of two, three, or four years.

Finally, students with access to the Internet can use a scholarship search program called FastWEB, which is located on the Financial Aid Information Page endorsed by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. The URL address for this page is: http://www.finaid.org

Policies and Procedures

If a student anticipates receiving funds from any source outside the university, s/he must notify the Office of Financial Aid in writing within two weeks of the receipt of such assistance, or risk reducing any Bucknell scholarship component of a financial aid award on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
By law, all resources must be considered in awarding governmental financial aid. Please note that state and/or federal financial aid may be affected by the receipt of outside scholarships.

Bucknell's institutional gift aid policy usually permits a student to receive the full benefit of an outside award. Typically the university will reduce a student's loan offering, the employment eligibility, and/or the family contribution by the full amount of the outside scholarship, until such time that the student receives gift (grant/scholarship) aid that equals the billed cost of attendance at the university. Exceptions to this policy follow:
Students whose total gift aid (grants/scholarship) is in excess of the billed costs of the university will experience a dollar-for-dollar reduction of Bucknell University scholarship.
Governmental awards from state or federal sources (including ROTC), as well as tuition subsidies based on parents' employment (tuition grant, tuition remission, tuition exchange) are not covered by the Bucknell gift aid policy; all monies from these sources of funding reduce Bucknell scholarship on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

If a student receives less scholarship/grant assistance from a non-university source than was estimated on his/her initial university financial aid award, s/he may request a review of the award. However, university financial assistance will not be increased to compensate for outside aid for which the student does not properly apply. Our ability to compensate for a decrease in an outside award will depend upon the availability of university financial aid funds.
Non-need based educational loans, such as PLUS or the Unsubsidized Stafford may be used to offset the expected family contribution, and, to the extent of that offset, should not affect a financial aid award.