FINANCIAL MATTERSThe Financial Services Team is Here for You

Your Baylor education is an investment of time, energy, and financial resources. That’s where our Student Financial Services team can really help. Located on the first floor of Clifton Robinson Tower, Baylor staff in the Financial Aid Office and the Cashiers Office are here to support you in the making of your educational goals a reality.

"My best practical advice for students and families is to normalize the four-year graduation experience. Talk that way from the beginning. This is four years. She will finish in four years. This is a normal thing to do. Have a plan. You've got academic advisors who are coming along by your side, giving you the best advice that they can. You've got department chairs, who are always happy to sit down with people, help them discuss constraints and opportunities that exist there. You've got student financial aid counselors who will guide you along the way and help you maximize the dollars that you take out or spend here and get as much of them spent well as possible. So you're not alone."

"Baylor understands, and many of our departments have individual scholarships. In the Journalism department, we have more than $200,000 in endowed scholarships that we give to our students each year to help. And sometimes we'll have a student who will write us and tell us, 'I have a financial need,' and we will search for money just to help them get over that hump. So we want to make sure that if they are here and they have a need, that we can help them with that need."

"I'm on a scholarship committee for the school that I work in. And the number one reason that students don't get scholarships that need them is that they don't have an active FASFA or an active CSS profile where the Financial Aid Office can actually move resources their direction. Students should know something about building a relationship with the Financial Aid Office. If you have classroom concerns, you shouldn't wait until the last week of the semester to talk to your professor. Likewise, if you have financial aid concerns, you shouldn't wait until the last week of the semester or the middle of the semester to talk about those. Professors, financial aid officers, you should get to them as early as possible to do course corrections and opportunity spotting as soon as you can. And I think this will give you the best path forward when you start early in either place. It's just a good overall strategy for college."

At Baylor, we understand that each student’s financial needs are unique. The Student Financial Services team will journey with you throughout your time at Baylor, helping you and your family make the best decisions for your needs and goals.

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