Updates and Policies
The following is important information concerning financial aid
- Limits to loan awards beginning Fall 2013 (PDF)
- CNM disburses Financial Aid funds based on students' attending hour status.
- Students will be paid after classes start.
- Financial Aid checks are given out on a specific day each term, the Financial Aid Check Release Dates.
- Waitlisted classes do not count as enrolled hours. There will be no financial aid deferment or disbursement for waitlisted classes.
- Full-time attendance for all terms (Fall, Spring, and Summer) is twelve or more credit hours.
- 9-11 credit hours is three quarter time
- 6-8 credit hours is half-time
- 1-5 credit hours is less than half-time
- Financial Aid funds are sent to the student through direct deposit or by mail.