Tuition & Costs
Current tuition and fees rates are available on the Student Fiscal Services' Tuition and Fees page.
Understanding Your Award Letter
When your aid is packaged, you will receive an award letter notification via email. You will be directed to Workday to view your financial aid awards. How To Accept/Decline Awards
To view your estimated costs navigate to your myFHSU tab and click " Financials." To the right, there will be a " View Financial Aid" tab, and once you are there, you will need to select the award year. There you will find an " Estimated Costs" tab with your Cost of Attendance information.
COST OF ATTENDANCE
TOTAL BUDGET - Total Resources - Fall Awards - Spring Awards = REMAINING NEED
Budget/Cost of Attendance
Your Cost of Attendance (COA) or budget is an estimate of the total amount it will cost you to pay educational expenses related to college. To award students a budget is built that includes not only tuition and fees but other expenses a student may incur will attending school.
Tuition and fees estimates can be found using the tuition and fees schedule. Books, living expenses (room and board), transportation (to and from school and work), and personal expenses (such as clothing, personal hygiene, etc) are based on estimates. Students are encouraged to use the Cost of Living Worksheet to build a budget to determine what expenses they may incur while in school.
TOOLS TO ESTIMATE YOUR COST OF ATTENDANCE
Cost of Attendance Worksheet
Net Price Calculator
Resources/Student Aid Index
Your Student Aid Index (SAI) is a formula-based index number ranging from –1500 to 999999. Where your SAI falls within the SAI range helps your school determine how much financial support you may need.
A negative SAI indicates you have a higher financial need. For example, if you have an SAI of –1500, you’ll qualify for a maximum Pell Grant award assuming you have not exhausted your lifetime amounts and meet all student eligibility requirements. Learn how the SAI is calculated.
Your SAI is not
- a dollar amount of aid you’ll receive,
- what your family is expected to provide, or
- your final financial aid offer.
Your SAI is an index number used by financial aid professionals when creating an aid offer. Your SAI is calculated using information that you (and other contributors, if required) provide on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) form.
During your aid process, you will see the following:
- an estimated SAI on the confirmation page of your FAFSA form
- an official SAI within your FAFSA Submission Summary (after your FAFSA form is processed)
Follow these steps to find your SAI:
- Log in to StudentAid.gov using your account username and password.
- Select your processed FAFSA submission.
- Select “View FAFSA Submission Summary.”
- Select the “Eligibility Overview” tab.
While completion of the FAFSA is the only way to have an official SAI calculated, you can have an estimated SAI calculated by using the Federal Student Aid Estimator.