The financial aid department of Eastern Connecticut State University helps students by assisting them with scholarships, grants, and student loans in the event that they find the fees and the cost of living at the campus to be expensive. At the university, the average federal grant comes to be around $4,959, whereas the financial aid is $5,059. The students at the university are provided with state aid and institutional aid. The state aid stands at $3,838, while the institutional aid is $5,059. The need-based scholarships awarded to students admitted to Eastern Connecticut State University amount to $14,867,772 per annum. Meanwhile, the total non-need-based scholarships/grants awarded in a year total $2,061,116.