Columbia University: School of Engineering and Applied Science

Financial Aid

Admissions is need-blind for U.S. citizens. U.S. permanent residents, Canadian citizens, and persons granted refugee visas by the United States. This means that applications are reviewed without regard to whether students are able to pay for the total cost of attending Columbia.

SEAS is committed to meeting the full need of all applicants admitted as first-year stu- dents. Certain limitations apply, however, in the case of transfer students. Although transfer admission is need-blind, financial aid resources for transfer students are limited. Therefore, SEAS is unable to meet the full need of transfer applicants, with the exception of students who enter the Combined Plan Program and those who transfer from Columbia College.

The Combined Plan Program for undergraduates offers students from affiliated schools across the country the opportunity to earn both a B.A. in a liberal arts field from their home institutions and a B.S. in engineering from SEAS in five years.

SEAS assesses the information applicants provided to the Office of Financial Aid and Educational Financing to determine how much a family is expected to contribute to college costs. The resulting