Students admitted to the OSU/Southwestern Oregon Community College Degree Partnership Program who choose to take courses at both schools in the same term may be eligible to receive financial aid based on the combined enrollment. Degree partnership program students are asked to declare a home school. The designated home school determines whether SOCC or OSU will disburse your financial aid.

There are several factors related to the choice of the OSU/SOCC home school:

• Students in the OSU/SOCC degree partnership program use different enrollment patterns for different terms:
o All classes are at SOCC
o All classes are at OSU
o Some classes are at SOCC and some at OSU in the same term

• The primary factor in determining the home school for the OSU/SOCC degree partnership program is the degree that the student is currently working toward:
o Associate’s Degree -> SOCC is the home school
o Baccalaureate Degree -> OSU is the home school

• Students have to be enrolled in at least 6 credits at the home school. For example, SOCC cannot disburse financial aid for a student who is not taking any classes at SOCC.

• Credit hours must apply to your current degree objective to be included in your enrollment for aid purposes. SOCC cannot count 300 or 400 level courses toward the enrollment needed to disburse financial aid.

•For example, let's say that a student is enrolled in 6 credits at SOCC and 6 credits at OSU, with SOCC as the home school for a financial aid package that is based on the student's being enrolled full-time. If those 6 credits at OSU consist of two 3 credit classes, numbered 105 and 220, then SOCC can count them toward the full-time enrollment. If, on the other hand, those 6 credits at OSU consist of one 3 credit class numbered 105 and one 3 credit class numbered 330, then SOCC can only count the 105 class. SOCC would consider that the student is enrolled for 9 credits for financial aid purposes. (OSU would consider the same student to be enrolled full-time for the term).

• The transferability of SOCC courses you take is a consideration if you receive your aid from OSU. OSU cannot count courses that do not transfer into OSU toward the enrollment needed to disburse financial aid.

•For example, a student is enrolled in 6 credits at SOCC and 6 credits at OSU, and has designated OSU as home school. If the 6 credits at SOCC consist of Math 112 and WR 121, then OSU can count those 6 credits along with the 6 credits being taken at OSU to make the student full-time. SIf, however, the courses at SOCC are Math 112 and Drafting 140, OSU can only count the math class since the drafting course does not transfer into OSU. In this second example, OSU would consider that the student is enrolled for 9 credits for financial aid purposes. (SOCC may consider the same student to be enrolled full-time for the term).