Changes to course load, including dropping a course or withdrawal, may result in ineligibility for all or part of your student loan  funding. Please review the Return of Title IV Funds Policy and contact the Awards & Financial Aid Office immediately if you withdraw or reduce your course load.

Students in receipt of Direct Loan funding are required to maintain student academic progress.

All first time borrowers must participate in a student on-line entrance counseling process. If this is your first student loan, please also complete the Direct Loan Entrance Counseling module. This online session will explain the rights and obligations of the borrower as well as provide information on how to manage your student loans. Loan funds cannot be disbursed until the counseling session has been completed.

All graduating students, students dropping to part-time enrolment or withdrawing from studies, are required to complete Exit Counseling. This online Exit counseling session provides important information to prepare you to repay your federal student loans. Exit counselling provides important information to prepare you to repay your federal student loans. Completing exit counselling is mandatory for recipients of Direct Loan funding.

Year standing is based on the number of credits you have successfully completed that are being applied to your degree. The year standing assessment is run by the Registrar’s Office and will update year standing regularly as final grades are posted.

Your year standing appears on your audit below the graphs and above the ‘Summary of Degree Requirements’ section.

Year standing follows this chart:

• First Year: Fewer than 4.0 credits
• Second Year: 4.0 through 8.5 credits
• Third Year: 9.0 through 13.5 credits
• Fourth Year: 14.0 or more credits (only for students in 20.0 credit degree programs)

Please note: Engineering students should see their advisor regarding their year standing.

If you are in a degree program that only requires 15.0 credits (ex. Bachelor of Economics), you cannot achieve 4th year standing.

The Fund is to provide support for students with disabilities who are in need of financial assistance. Donor: Joy MacLaren. Endowed 2019.

• To be considered for the New Sun Bursary for Students with Disabilities, students must complete the online General Undergraduate Bursary application by the Oct. 31 deadline.
• The online General Undergraduate Bursary application is made available to all registered undergraduate students in early September for the Fall/Winter session.

Awarded annually to students with a disability who are in need of financial assistance. Established by Saroja Nagpur in memory of her husband. Endowed 2019.

• To be considered for the Nagpur, Lakshman Bursary, students must complete the online General Undergraduate Bursary application by the Oct. 31 deadline.
• The online General Undergraduate Bursary application is made available to all registered undergraduate students in early September for the Fall/Winter session.

Awarded annually to undergraduate students with a documented permanent disability who are enrolled in a degree program at Carleton University. Eligible students will be in demonstrated financial need and must be registered with the Paul Menton Centre. Endowed in 2019 by Dr. Larry Didow, PhD/72. Dr. Larry Didow obtained his PhD at Carleton University in 1972 and went on to become a professor at the University of Winnipeg. During his tenure at the University, he was very active in the development of the Nathan McKay Learning Resource Centre for Students with Disabilities (now referred to as the Disability Services and Resource Centre) and he currently supports disabled students through several scholarships and/or bursaries at post secondary institutions.

• To be considered for the Larry A. Didow Bursary students must complete the online General Undergraduate Bursary application by the Oct. 31 deadline.
• The online General Undergraduate Bursary application is made available to all registered undergraduate students in early September for the Fall/Winter session.

Awarded annually to a student with a continuing physical disability entering a full-time program at Carleton University from an Ottawa high school who is in need of financial assistance. Established in 2017 through the Ottawa Community Foundation.

• To be considered for the Ingram, McCarthy, Robertson Aw Bursary, students must complete the online General Undergraduate Bursary application by the Oct. 31 deadline.
• The online General Undergraduate Bursary application is made available to all registered undergraduate students in early September for the Fall/Winter session.

Awarded annually to two deserving undergraduate students in the final year of any program of study who are registered with the Paul Menton Centre. Recipients will have demonstrated financial need, must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada (landed immigrants or protected persons), and must meet OSAP’s Ontario residency requirements. Endowed in 2007 from the estate of Mrs. Sarah Lithwick Green.

• To be considered for the Harold Lithwick Memorial Bursary, students must complete the online General Undergraduate Bursary application by the Oct. 31 deadline.
• The online General Undergraduate Bursary application is made available to all registered undergraduate students in early September for the Fall/Winter session.

Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Director, Paul Menton Centre to undergraduate students with a permanent physical disability. Eligible recipients will be in demonstrated financial need and be registered with the Paul Menton Centre. Endowed in 2014 by Joan Gazeley.

• Awarded on the recommendation of the Paul Menton Centre.

Contact the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) for more information.

Awarded annually to a student with a physical disability, in good academic standing, who is proceeding from one year to another of an undergraduate program and is in need of financial assistance. Endowed 1990 by family and friends in memory of Paul Menton, Carleton University’s first co-ordinator of disabled programs.

• To be considered for the Paul Menton Memorial Bursary, students must complete the online General Undergraduate Bursary application by the Oct. 31 deadline.
• The online General Undergraduate Bursary application is made available to all registered undergraduate students in early September for the Fall/Winter session.

Awarded annually, to deserving undergraduate students entering or proceeding from one year to another of any program, to support students with disabilities in the attendant services program at Carleton University. Recipients will have demonstrated financial need, must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada (landed immigrants or protected persons), and must meet OSAP’s Ontario residency requirements. A committee determined by the Awards Office and the Paul Menton Centre will select the recipients of the award. Endowed in 2007 by family and friends of Nicholas Leroux.

• Awarded on the recommendation of the Paul Menton Centre.

Contact the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) for more information.