Financial Aid and Scholarships

As a general guideline, the school that you are taking the majority of credits from should be established as your home school.  The primary factor in determining your home school for the OSU/Chemeketa Community College Degree Partnership Program is the number of credits you are taking at each school. When you declare OSU as your home school, you must be enrolled in at least one course for each term of enrollment at OSU to receive financial aid. The same applies when you declare Chemeketa Community College as your home school. No financial aid will disburse to your account unless you are enrolled in a minimum of one credit at your designated home school.  Please note that scholarships may have different enrollment requirements.  Some OSU scholarships require a minimum of 6 hours for enrollment eligibility.

 There are several other things to consider when determining your home school.

 • When Chemeketa Community College is your home school, they cannot count 300 or 400 level courses toward the enrollment needed to disburse financial aid.  Therefore, if you are taking 12 credits between both schools, and one of those is a 3 credit 300 level course at OSU, then Chemeketa Community College will consider your enrollment level as 9 credits.    

 • You must also consider the transferability of your courses when determining your home school.  When OSU is your home school, we cannot count courses that will not transfer.  Therefore, if you are taking 12 credits between both schools, with your courses at Chemeketa Community College Math 112 and Drafting 140, your total enrollment would be 9 credits at OSU.  While your Math 112 course transfers to OSU, your Drafting 140 does not.  Generally, vocational/technical courses do not transfer to OSU.  To verify that a course is transferable, please consult your academic advisor.