The financial aid department of University of Hawaii at Hilo 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 $5,127, whereas the financial aid is $3,934. The university provides financial assistance in the form of state-level aid worth $3,824 and institutional aid worth $3,934.