Need-based Aid

OVERVIEW

Need-based tuition assistance is available through each one of the OSP offices to students who can demonstrate sufficient financial need.

Students, whose home school is affiliated with Tel Aviv University either through a general financial aid transfer agreement or through an individual Consortium Agreement, may not apply for TAU’s tuition assistance. Instead, they must ensure that their federal loans and/or institutional aid be transferred to TAU. Students are advised to request a detailed financial aid transcript from their home school's financial aid or study abroad office.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

To be considered for need-based tuition assistance U.S. students must submit to the Office of Academic Affairs in New York the following documents:

1. Tuition Assistance Request Form

   The form is provided to all semester and year students with their acceptance packets. Please use the 'Comments' section on the form or a separate note to provide any additional details or explain any special circumstances, which you think may help in illustrating your financial situation. Note that incomplete forms will be automatically denied.

2. Student Aid Report(SAR)

   Your home school's financial aid office may have your copy, or you may download a copy from FAFSA’s website to submit with your application. If you have never filled out a FAFSA you may do so by logging on to www.fafsa.ed.gov.

   Tel Aviv University's U.S. Department of Education's Title IV Code (OPE-ID) is: 008373-00 (or electronic: G08373). To verify online, please click here and enter code G08373.

3. Form 1040

   Your parents' most recently filed joint Income Tax Report (1040), or separate 1040's if filed separately; or your own 1040, if filed as an independent.

Tuition assistance application deadlines:

April 15th for all the programs beginning in the summer (fall semester, yearlong or MA programs) - November 15th for spring semester

Currently, TAU's tuition assistance is not available to summer-session students.

Eric Diamond Memorial Scholarship

Awards from the Eric Diamond Memorial Scholarship are based upon financial need and/or merit (i.e., current participation in campus/community/synagogue activities; commitment to continued involvement upon return from Israel), and are applied to Overseas Student Program tuition. The Overseas Student Program Scholarship Committee, with active participation by Eric’s mother, Rosanne Diamond, selects the awards based on qualified applicants.

Students applying for this scholarship should submit an essay explaining why they believe they qualify and email it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or mail it to the New York office. All essays will then be reviewed by the Scholarship Committee.