The financial aid department of University of California-Riverside 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. The average federal grant that comes from the university is around $5,126, whereas the financial aid is $10,576. The university provides financial assistance in the form of state-level aid worth $11,369 and institutional aid worth $10,576. The need-based scholarships awarded to students admitted to University of California-Riverside amount to $1,214,866 per annum. Meanwhile, the total non-need-based scholarships/grants awarded in a year total $10,587,042.