Family Matters
Our team supports your team!
There's nothing like the support of family to help you achieve your dreams and goals, offer emotional support through challenging times and provide a grounded reality for you as you serve your country.
At AIU Online, we fully comprehend the role family plays in the day-to-day lives of our men and women in uniform. That's why we take many education benefits offered to active military and veterans and extend them to their immediate families. One such example is the AIU Online Freedom Grant. University grants or scholarships are based on established criteria as published in the University’s catalog and are awarded after verification that the conditions of eligibility have been met.
AIU has established a grant for active, reserve, inactive military personnel, and their immediate families* with the opportunity to attend a degree program of study at AIU. To be eligible for the Freedom Grant and waived application fee, a candidate must be accepted for admission to the University and allow for verification of their military status (or for family members, the relationship to the enrolled student) and complete the Freedom/AIU Veterans Grant Attestation form.
The conditions are as follows:
- The Freedom Grant is used exclusively toward program charges.
- The grant is awarded proportionately over each session in the
program.
- Qualifying students are active and drilling members of the U.S. military personnel and their immediate families.
- All grants are applied as a credit to the student’s account, and no cash payments will be awarded to the student.
- The grant is non-transferrable and non-substitutable and cannot be combined with any Education Partner, AIU Veterans Grant or AIU Online Lifelong Learning Grant. The grant with the greatest benefit to the student will be applied.
Students selected for membership verification must provide documentation before the grant is applied. Those that are not able to provide documentation will also be required to pay the application fee.
Family members... make the most of the time your loved ones are away and serving
their country!
Many family members of our military students opt to share in their loved ones' educational endeavors. When more than one family member is enrolled at AIU Online at the same time, the shared experience offers them the opportunity to mutually support each others educational dreams, optimize free time with a worthwhile cause and stay focused on getting their degrees fast.
*Immediate family members: Spouse (life partner) or dependent children only. Siblings, cousins, etc. are not considered an immediate family member.
