Financial aid may be available to graduate students from sources outside of Trinity. Employers and civic organizations may be good resources, as many provide scholarship opportunities to employees or members.

The Internet can be a valuable resource in helping you to locate additional scholarship resources. Some helpful scholarship websites include www.fastweb.com, www.finaid.org, and www.collegeboard.com. However, do not waste your money on fee-based scholarship matching services, which will not give you any better information than you can get from the free services available online. Scholarships that sound too good to be true, usually are. Please beware: if you have to pay money to get money, it's probably a scam.

You must report to the Office of Financial Aid any external awards you receive from sources other than Trinity and ensure that funds are sent directly to the university. These awards must be counted as a resource in meeting your educational costs and coordinated with your other sources of financial aid. If you do not demonstrate financial need, an outside award may be added to other gift awards up to Trinity’s cost of attendance. If you do demonstrate financial need, an outside award when combined with other sources of funding cannot exceed your financial need. In such cases, outside awards will generally reduce loans. Circumstances may require the reduction of your federal, state, or institutional gift aid as a result of external funds.