Is there such thing as financial aid for graduate school?

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To be specfic, if you use up all your dependent and independent financial aid, can you still get aid for graduate school? I don't consider scholarships financial aid because there not reliable. How long can one rely on scholarships when graduate school is $24k a year? Just wanted to know what options there are if any besides Sallie Mae loans?

If you have at least 2 years of nursing experience and feel comfortable in your skills, you can travel nurse for a while to help save up for grad school. You will have the opportunity to make anywhere from $1500- $3000 NET PAY WEEKLY depending on your specialty and state you will be working in.

There are some travel nurses who travel to save up for NP and CRNA School. Bonus, it's like a working vacation and you have the opportunity to learn new things and develop your skills that you otherwise may not have the option to.

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

Yes you get an extended federal aid for graduate school.

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Specializes in Float Pool - A Little Bit of Everything.

I wish there was, it is so expensive! But I hope to see a return on investment!

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Nurses can make $3,000 a week in my hospital. This is a bummer, I thought there was such thing as graduate financial aid.

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Nurses can make $3,000 a week in my hospital. This is a bummer, I thought there was such thing as graduate financial aid.

There is graduate financial aid. You can get federal direct loans; I think it's about $20,500 a year.

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Is this off of fads a or somewhere else?

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.
Is this off of fads a or somewhere else?

Fafsa? Yes.

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

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There is graduate financial aid. You can get federal direct loans; I think it's about $20,500 a year.

really? Even after finishing up your independent aid for undergrad? I have to look into that.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
really? Even after finishing up your independent aid for undergrad? I have to look into that.

Yes. You can dig a deeper hole into debt for graduate school. That's how people rack up those $200,000 ... $300,000 etc. student loans we keep hearing about as the next economic crises that's going to hurt our economy at some point. Some people just keep taking out more and more student loans until their debt becomes so huge that they have no hope of paying it back in their lifetime. Those big debts ruin their financial futures ... but they have the education they wanted.

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