The Clark Atlanta University Office of Student Financial Aid is committed to assisting students and their family with finding funding sources to help with financing their CAU education.
Whether you are a prospective applicant, returning student, graduate student, or summer school student, the office will provide information about the types of available financial aid, how to apply for aid, how to keep your aid and ways to manage your finances throughout the CAU educational experience.
SCHOOL CODE: 00155900
FINANCIAL AID DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1ST
Locate Your Financial Aid Award
Financial Aid for Summer 2025
General Documents and Information
How to Accept Offer (New Students)
How to Accept Offer (Current Students)
Loan Entrance Counseling Instructions
Loan Exit Counseling Instructions
Loan Master Promissory Note Instructions
Plus Loan Application Instructions
Federal Pell Grant Lifetime Eligibility Used (LEU)
Verification Documents and Information
2025-2026 Verification Forms
V1 2025-2026 Standard Verification Worksheet
V4 2025-2026 Identity Verification Worksheet
V5 2025-2026 Aggregate Verification Worksheet
2025-2026 Unusual Enrollment Review
2024-2025 Verification Forms
V1 2024-2025 Standard Verification Worksheet
V4 2024-2025 Identity Verification Worksheet
Satisfactory Academic Progress
Financial Aid Award Documents & Instructions
Applying for Federal Aid
The U.S. Department of Education awards more than $120 billion a year in grants, work-study funds, and low-interest loans to more than 13 million students. Federal student aid covers such expenses as tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and transportation. Aid also can help pay for other related expenses, such as a computer and dependent care.
Federal Student Loans
If you decide to finance some of your educational expenses through loans, the following government sponsored student loans should be first on your list of options:
FAFSA
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
- Complete a FAFSA
www.studentaid.gov - Complete the Federal required Entrance Counseling
www.studentaid.gov
Stafford Loans
Complete and e-sign the Federal required Master Promissory Note
www.studentaid.gov
Plus Loans
Complete and e-sign the Federal required Plus loan application and Master Promissory Note
www.studentaid.gov
Private Loans
Work Study
Federal Work-Study provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses. The program encourages community service work and work related to the student’s course of study
Learn more about Work Study at CAU
Cohort Default Rate (CDR) Information
The U.S. Department of Education releases official cohort default rates once per year. A cohort default rate (CDR), for schools having 30 or more borrowers entering repayment in a fiscal year, is the percentage of a school’s borrowers who enter repayment on certain William D. Ford Federal Direct Loans (Direct Loans) and Federal Family Education Loans (FFELs) during that fiscal year and default (or meet the other specified condition) before the end of the second fiscal year following the fiscal year that the borrower entered repayment.
The current CDR for Clark Atlanta University can be found here.
