Questions?

Contact us Monday – Friday 8:30 – 5:00pm at (661) 362-2290, or email us at financialaid@masters.edu.

Don’t forget to reapply for donor or department scholarships. They will go live in December and will close in March.

Based on your Admissions application, you may qualify for our Alumni or Pastor and Missionary Dependent Scholarships.

To fulfill this requirement, please complete the TMU Community Scholarship application and select everything you are eligible for.

If you have any further questions about this requirement, please email us at financialaid@masters.edu.

The Financial Aid Department determines Financial Need through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You will need to complete the FAFSA on FAFSA.gov. If you are having difficulty completing the FAFSA, please contact the FAFSA Help Center.

Alternatively, if you or your parents do not want to complete the FAFSA, you can submit a FAFSA Waiver to www.masters.edu/upload.

Please note that by signing the FAFSA Waiver, you waive your ability to receive need-based grants, both federal and institutional.

If you have any further questions about this requirement, please email us at financialaid@masters.edu.

Some students are selected for Federal Verification based on their FAFSA results. One of the steps in completing your verification is by completing the Federal Verification Worksheet.

If you are completing verification for the Spring or Summer of 2023, please complete the 2022-23 Federal Verification Worksheet.

If you are completing verification for the Fall of 2023, please complete either the print or online version of the 2023-24 Federal Verification Worksheet. (Note: there is both a student and parent portion of the online Federal Verification Worksheet).

Please upload any printed versions of the Federal Verification Worksheet to www.masters.edu/upload.

If you have any further questions about this requirement, please email us at financialaid@masters.edu.

Some student are selected for Special Verification by the U.S. Government. As part of the verification process, you may need to upload a copy of your Official High School Transcripts to www.masters.edu/upload.

If you have already sent the Admissions Department or the Registrar Department a copy of your Official High School Transcripts, please notify the Financial Aid Department.

If you have any further questions about this requirement, please email us at financialaid@masters.edu.

A student may be selected for Housing Allowance Verification because their parent marked that they received Military/Clergy Housing Allowance on the FAFSA.

To verify this amount, we will need a copy of your parent’s 2021 W-2. You can upload their W-2 to www.masters.edu/upload.

If you have any further questions about this requirement, please email us at financialaid@masters.edu.

To verify the financial information from the FAFSA, the student, parent, or both will need to either use the IRS Data Retrieval tool when completing the FAFSA, or send the Financial Aid Department a copy of their IRS Tax Transcript from 2021. (Note: You will only need to complete this document if you or your parents filed taxes. If you were not required to file your 2021 taxes, please contact the Financial Aid Department)

The IRS Data Retrieval tool is used when applying or adjusting the FAFSA. Here is a link on how to use the IRS Data Retrieval tool:https://studentaid.gov/help/how-use-irs-drt

If you are not able to use the IRS Data Retrieval tool, you can send the Financial Aid Department a copy of the IRS Tax Transcript, depending on whose we need.

• If you are applying for the 2022-23 school year, we will need your or your parent’s 2020 IRS Tax Transcript.
• If you are applying for the 2023-34 school year, we will need your or your parent’s 2021 IRS Tax Transcript.

You can get a digital copy of your Tax Transcript here: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript. Please upload a copy of the transcript to www.masters.edu/upload

If you have any further questions about this requirement, please email us at financialaid@masters.edu.

Based on your Federal Loan and Pell history, you may need to complete additional documentation to clear any flags on your record.

If you are selected for NSLDS Documentation, please contact the our office at financial@masters.edu.

Some student are selected for Special Verification by the U.S. Government. To complete this verification, student must complete the Statement of Educational Purpose.

As part of the verification process, the Statement of Educational Purpose signed in one of two ways:

• Signed in front of a TMU Financial Aid Counselor and present some form of government photo identification (driver’s license, state I.D., passport, etc.).
• Signed before a notary and present some form of government photo identification (driver’s license, state I.D., passport, etc.). If signed before a notary, the student must then mail the original document to the following address:
  • The Master’s University #38, 21726 Placerita Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91321.

If you have any further questions about this requirement, please email us at financialaid@masters.edu.