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Financial Aid

**Important Update**

*Schedule a Virtual Appointment with Financial Aid https://webapps.ccac.edu/AppointmentCentral/

The Community College of Allegheny County operates on a semester basis. This includes a fall and a spring term or two major terms of 15 weeks of instruction with a final examination period. This also includes two summer sessions. This schedule follows the traditional financial aid calendar typically parallel to the Federal Student Aid Application. The fall term begins in late August or early September and the spring term begins in January of the following year. Students taking 12 credits (semester hours) or more are considered full time for enrollment purposes.

View the Financial Aid for Current Students: Ask Before You Act information to learn more about how schedule changes can affect financial aid.

If you are expecting to receive financial aid, you can review your pending financial aid at MyCCAC. Navigate to CCAC Central e-Services and select "Students". Then click on Financial Aid Self Service.

It is your responsibility to compare your financial aid award with your tuition and fee costs and if the financial aid is less than the total cost of tuition and fees the balance is due by the tuition due date.

If you are applying for a student loan you must complete a Direct Loan Master Promissory Note and Student Loan Entrance Counseling in order for your loan to be processed. 

Important Dates

Fall 2021

Grant Credit: September 23, 2021
First Loan Credit: October 28, 2021
Second Loan Credit: November 1, 2021
Bookstore Charging Period:
August 16 - September 17, 2021

Early filing for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is now! File your FAFSA now!

Federal Title IV CODE for The Community College of Allegheny County - ALL CAMPUSES IS: 003231-00

IMPORTANT: As Financial Aid continues to move towards all electronic processes we encourage all students to make sure that they have and use their CCAC email account. Additionally, we encourage students to sign up for Direct Deposit of their FA refunds. This is an easier and safer way to receive your financial aid refund. 

Please visit CCAC Drop Refund Policy for more information.

 

Federal Direct Student Loan program

CCAC offers the Federal Direct Student Loan program. This program provides low-interest loans for students and parents directly from the Department of Education instead of private banks or other financial institutions. If you want to supplement your financial aid award with loans you can find out more about this direct lending program, or contact the appropriate campus financial aid office.

If you are interested in applying for a Direct Loan, you must request the loan through Financial Aid Self Service in My CCAC. All students applying for a Direct Loan must complete a Master Promissory Note (MPN) and Student Loan Entrance Counseling for the loan to be processed. MPNs and Entrance Counseling can be completed at StudentLoans.gov.

Net Price Calculator

In accordance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA), beginning on October 29, 2011, each postsecondary institution in the United States that participates in Title IV federal student aid programs and enrolls full-time, first-time degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduate students will be required to post a net price calculator on its website that uses institutional data to provide estimated net price information to current and prospective students and their families based on a student's individual circumstances.

Using both institution-provided and student-entered data, this calculator will allow prospective students to calculate an estimated net price at an institution, defined as cost (price) of attendance minus grant and scholarship aid, based on what similar students paid in a previous year.

Use the Net Price Calculator for CCAC.

Contact a Campus Financial Aid Office

*Schedule a Virtual Appointment with Financial Aid https://webapps.ccac.edu/AppointmentCentral/
Campus  Address Phone, Fax Email
Allegheny Campus & Homewood Brushton Center 808 Ridge Avenue
Student Services Center S-140
Pittsburgh, PA 15212 		Phone: 412.237.CCAC
Fax: 412.237.3171 		financialaid@ccac.edu
Boyce Campus & Braddock Hills Center 595 Beatty Road
Monroeville, PA 15146 		Phone: 412.237.CCAC
Fax: 412.237.3173 		financialaid@ccac.edu
North Campus & West Hills Center 8701 Perry Highway
Pittsburgh, PA 15237 		Phone: 412.237.CCAC
Fax: 412.237.3175 		financialaid@ccac.edu
South Campus & Washington County  1750 Clairton Road
Room B-308
West Mifflin, PA 15122 		Phone: 412.237.CCAC
Fax: 412.237.3177 		financialaid@ccac.edu