Affording College Providing for postsecondary education is often among a family's largest investments. Wake Forest meets 100% of the demonstrated financial need of eligible undergraduate students, with grants, scholarships, work-study, and subsidized loans.
Most financial aid at Wake Forest is based on a family's demonstrated financial need. Except in the most extraordinary circumstances, Wake Forest considers undergraduate students to be dependent on their parents. Below, please learn more about determining need and how the Office of Student Financial Aid may assist you.
Affording a Wake Forest Education The committed professionals in the Office of Student Financial Aid are charged with making Wake Forest within your financial reach. With a combination of loans, grants, work-study and other sources, the mission is possible.
Wake Forest University has fair placement into investment banking and finance, sending a handful of graduates each year into the top investment banks. Wake Forest ranks #38 on our investment banking target school list, earning itself a designation as a lower semi-target school.
You may review your modified financial aid eligibility by accessing your financial aid record through the Wake Information Network. Please contact Student Financial Aid at finaid@wfu or 336.758. 5154 with any questions.
Students classified as international students by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions are not eligible to receive need-based aid. However, international students with exceptional academic and leadership credentials should consider applying for merit scholarships.
Wake Forest proposes to honor another form of excellence: character. Each incoming class will include a small, selective cohort of top students who will be awarded a full scholarship, based on merit, toward their educational costs.
Students classified as international students by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions are not eligible to receive need-based aid. However, international students with exceptional academic and leadership credentials should consider applying for merit scholarships.
Wake Tech Foundation scholarships Both merit-based and need-based scholarships are available. Scholarships are also offered on a competitive basis that considers academic excellence, achievement, leadership qualities, need and other criteria as stipulated by the donor.