Updated July 2023. Use this guide to navigate the 2024-25 FAFSA and the financial aid process — everything from how to prepare, when to apply, and what types of aid exist, to reducing college costs and understanding financial aid offers.

Use this guide to navigate the 2023-24 FAFSA and the financial aid process — everything from how to prepare, when to apply, and what types of aid exist, to reducing college costs and understanding financial aid offers. Updated 2022.

Follow this guide to get ready for education and a career after high school.

Maine’s guide for becoming financially savvy.

(Please note: “BUILD: Steps to Financial Wellness” is the new 2023 edition of the publication formerly known as “MANAGE: Making Your Money Work.”)

Tips and information to help you on your path to higher education. Includes money management basics, tips for paying for higher education, and more.

Designed with adult students in mind, the Lifetime Learning Kit provides helpful information students need to plan, prepare, and pay for higher education. Click below to download the standard kit.

Kits can be customized with additional pages covering special situations. View and download customization options here.

Members of the classes of 2020 through 2025 are eligible for tuition-free community college! Please use this flyer to spread the word as they consider their options for life after high school.

This rack card outlines the various services FAME provides to new Mainers, including immigrants and refugees, to assist them with pursuing and affording higher education.

This rack card provides tips for students attending college fairs.

This rack card provides resources to prepare and pay for college.

This rack card describes Net Price Calculator and how to use it.

Leaving College provides important information to students who are withdrawing from college to help ensure successful loan repayment.

Managing your student loan repayment is a critical part of establishing good credit and achieving your future financial goals. The five steps in this resource will help you successfully manage your student loan repayment.

Helpful, local, empowering – let TheLoanForME.com be your resource when it comes to figuring out how to finance higher education. To get started, visit TheLoanForME.com 

FAME is a resource for those borrowers who are seeking to refinance or consolidate student loan debt. 

This brochure provides information about the Maine Loan – Maine’s alternative student loan. Updated June 2023.

This brochure provides information about NextGen, Maine’s Section 529 plan.

Brochure with NextGen 529 information appropriate to share with families of high school students or with adult students.

Series of posters that encourage children and parents to aspire to education after high school.

Information to help parents learn more about their child’s Alfond Grant.

This is part one in a series of workbooks created to introduce elementary students (ideally grades three through five) to three key concepts: career exploration, education after high school, and money management.

This is part two in a series of workbooks created to introduce elementary students (ideally grades three through five) to three key concepts: career exploration, education after high school, and money management.

This is part three in a series of workbooks created to introduce elementary students (ideally grades three through five) to three key concepts: career exploration, education after high school, and money management.

Publication describing programs provided by FAME.