UCSB Financial Aid - Financial Aid

For the academic year 2020-2021, a total of 14,691 students (63% of all students) have received grants or scholarships and the average received aid amount is $18,590. It includes federal, state, local, institutional, or other sources of grant aid. The following table describes the financial aid statistics by aid types at University of California-Santa Barbara for all undergraduate students.

a total of 2,961 beginning students (60% of all freshmen) have received any financial aid and 2,830 students (57% of all freshmen) awarded any student loans. The headcount includes the number of full-time, first-time degree-seeking beginning undergraduate students. The below table shows the number and amount by the source of financial aid at University of California-Santa Barbara.

For academic year 2020-2021, total 2,433 full-time beginning students have enrolled and attended University of California-Santa Barbara. Among them, 2,131 students have lived on campus and 299 students lived off campus (without family). Next table shows the students count by living status and years.

Next table shows number of students who paid the in-state or in-district tuition rate and were awarded any grant/scholarship by income level for academic year 2020-2021 . The sources of grants and scholarship aid are the federal government, state/local government, or the institution.