Dates and Deadlines

2024-2025 Academic Year

Priority Filing Date for Day Students

Students who wish to be considered for financial aid for the 2024-2025 academic year should file as close as possible to the March 1, 2024 priority filing date. As a result of limited student financial aid resources, Rivier must establish priority deadlines for financial aid applications. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the FAFSA is filed by the priority deadline. On-time financial aid applicants are given full consideration for assistance. Availability of funds cannot be guaranteed for late applicants; therefore, late applicants will be considered on a funds-available basis. In order to award federal funding for a student, the Office of Financial Aid must have a valid Student Aid Report (results from the FAFSA).

The deadlines for filing your FAFSA and providing additional documentation/information that the Office requests are as follows:

For Fall-only 2024 Aid-Eligible Students – October 15, 2024
For Fall/Spring 2024-2025 or Spring-only 2024 Aid-Eligible Students – March 11, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: Undergraduate Day aid-eligible students are those who are enrolled at least half-time (there are some exceptions). Furnishing required documents by these deadline dates doesn’t guarantee awarding of Rivier need-based funding (Rivier Grant) for day students. As this is a limited pool of funding, students are strongly encouraged to provide the necessary documents well before these deadlines. If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at (603) 897-8488 or by email.

Effective beginning summer 2024, we are now awarding summer 2024, fall 2024, and spring 2025 as the award year for 2024-2025. (This change will not affect you if you do not plan to enroll in summer classes. You will be awarded for fall and spring only). Your annual financial aid award will be equally distributed over three semesters. This new awarding change will only affect Undergraduate Day, Undergraduate Professional Studies, Graduate, and Doctoral students.

2023-2024 Academic Year

Priority Filing Date for Day Students

Students who wish to be considered for financial aid for the 2023-2024 academic year should file as close as possible to the March 1, 2023 priority filing date. As a result of limited student financial aid resources, Rivier must establish priority deadlines for financial aid applications. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the FAFSA is filed by the priority deadline. On-time financial aid applicants are given full consideration for assistance. Availability of funds cannot be guaranteed for late applicants; therefore, late applicants will be considered on a funds-available basis. In order to award federal funding for a student, the Office of Financial Aid must have a valid Student Aid Report (results from the FAFSA).

The deadlines for filing your FAFSA and providing additional documentation/information that the Office requests are as follows:

For Fall-only 2023 Aid-Eligible Students – October 15, 2023
For Fall/Spring 2023-2024 or Spring-only 2023 Aid-Eligible Students – March 11, 2024

PLEASE NOTE: Undergraduate Day aid-eligible students are those who are enrolled at least half-time (there are some exceptions). Furnishing required documents by these deadline dates doesn’t guarantee awarding of Rivier need-based funding (Rivier Grant) for day students. As this is a limited pool of funding, students are strongly encouraged to provide the necessary documents well before these deadlines. If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at (603) 897-8488 or by email.

Effective beginning summer 2019, we are now awarding summer 2023, fall 2023, and spring 2024 as the award year for 2023-2024. (This change will not affect you if you do not plan to enroll in summer classes. You will be awarded for fall and spring only). Your annual financial aid award will be equally distributed over three semesters. This new awarding change will only affect Undergraduate Professional Studies, Graduate, and Doctoral students.

Undergraduate day students will continue to be awarded as fall, spring, and summer. Day students that have not used their annual limit of federal loans could be eligible for financial aid for the summer semester.