April 8, 2024
NIU’s financial aid office has started to receive ISIRs (Institutional Student Information Records) from the Department of Education for students who indicated NIU on their FAFSA form. We are testing and finalizing updates to our system to correctly import the ISIR data and to begin packaging student financial aid offers.
Barring any additional setbacks from the Department of Education and pending delivery of critical updates from our software vendor (Oracle), we anticipate the following timeline for financial aid packaging and estimates:
Beginning the week of April 8, 2024
Beginning the week of April 22, 2024
Beginning May 1, 2024
Students affected by FAFSA data issues
The 2024-2025 FAFSA is now open and can be accessed 24/7.
The best things you can do to get your aid information as quickly as possible are:
Use NIU's School Code when completing the FAFSA.
001737
For scholarship-specific questions
scholarships@niu.edu