The financial aid department of University of California-Santa Barbara 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 $5,180, whereas the financial aid is $9,569. The students at the university are provided with state aid and institutional aid. The state aid stands at $11,438, while the institutional aid is $9,569. The total need-based scholarships/grants offered at UCSB based on students' financial needs add up to $1,112,723 per year. Meanwhile, the total non-need-based scholarships/grants in a year come to around $6,825,165.