Most of the universities are very keen at providing financial assistance to their students primarily base on their merit and another based on their need.
The quantity or even the type of university financial aid varies depending on the department, university and study levels.
Usually the financial assistance is more offered for the graduates than for the under graduates.
Also more university financial aids are permitted for the physical sciences, engineering and medical sectors rather in the humanities, management studies or in social sciences.
For an undergraduate funding assistance you have to submit an application forms.
There are institutions financial aid requisition as well a s the foreign students financial aid form and they are provided by the institution or college and is governed by the college board under the college scholarship service.
Some times you have to enclose a bank statement along with these.
These forms usually have to contain the information's of your personal annual income, your parents income per year, average annual cost of living, general details of the assets that your parents or yourself possess, details of any other financial aid that you seek other than the university.
Though Indian students will not gain the assistance at the first semester many universities may manage it after one or two semesters and this is what makes sense of going to US for educational purposes unless you make out the expense for one year on your own.
The post graduates have to show their fiscal need during the filling of the application.
There are various typed of financial help like the tuition waiver, fellow ships or scholar ships, assistant ship etc.
Most of these are usually merit based so that no meritorious student could go back or remain unnoticed without further chance for higher studies in the name of poor financial set up.
The students with a greater evidence of academic accomplishments, such as highly standardized exam scoring, any experience with the teaching profession in the subject offered at the undergraduate level to seek the provisions with the teaching assistant ship, research interests for the research assistant ship, any letter of recommendation or a any professional writing sample or that is published etc can have a greater chance of getting financial help.