What does your college already offer you?
Most colleges have emergency money, a food pantry, counseling and people in financial aid who can look at your situation again. A lot of students never hear about them. Type your college to see what’s there.
How we know
Every college in the U.S. Department of Education’s list is here (6,072), with its own website and financial aid office. EFF reads each college’s public pages to find its help, and a person checks every listing before you see it as confirmed. Each one shows where it came from and when it was last checked.
21 of 6,072 colleges have a full EFF guide so far: EFF read the college’s own pages and wrote the paths for twelve kinds of help, starting with what to do if you’re broke on a Friday night. EFF adds colleges every week, chapter campuses first, then HBCUs. Every other college shows what EFF has found on its site so far. See something wrong? Tell us and EFF fixes it.
See something wrong or missing at your college? Every college page has a “Tell us” button.