Financial Literacy Resources
Understanding college costs, borrowing, and repayment can help you make informed financial decisions during college and after graduation.
Explore the resources below to build your knowledge of financial aid and strengthen your everyday money-management skills.
Understand Financial Aid Terms
Financial aid includes terminology that may be unfamiliar. Use Dean’s glossary to better understand your financial aid offer, loans, grants, repayment requirements, and other common terms.
View the Financial Aid Glossary
Understanding the Principles of Financial Literacy
We also find it imperative that students have at the very least a basic understanding of the principles of financial literacy. It is our goal to educate our students, so they can make better-informed decisions while they are in school and after they have graduated.
That is why we have teamed up with Inceptia to offer Financial Avenue – an education program that helps students build money skills for life. Dean is giving this program to our students for FREE, and we recommend that all students sign up.
Inceptia can help you explore a wide variety of possibilities such as alternative repayment plans, deferment, consolidation, discharge, forgiveness, and forbearance options. Inceptia will stay in touch with you via phone calls, letters, and/or emails to help you find answers to your questions and solutions to your issues.
For additional resources including information on repayment options, please visit Inceptia’s Federal Student Loan Overview website at www.Inceptia.org/FAQ.
Plan Your Path to Affordability
Have questions about college costs, financial aid, billing or payment options? The Student Financial Planning and Services team is here to help you understand your options and plan your next steps.
Schedule a Virtual Appointment
Student Financial Planning and Services
99 Main Street
Franklin, MA 02038
508-541-1518
sfp@dean.edu