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Financial Wellness Program

The Financial Wellness Program at FIU aims to help students better understand what it means to live a financially healthy life and all the good things that come along with it. By connecting you to resources and having conversations about financial wellness, we hope to help you build the foundational skills you need to be successful.

At FIU, financial wellness is a key component to living a healthy lifestyle. There are four key components of financial wellness:

  • Financial literacy: Gaining the knowledge needed to establish a strong financial foundation
  • Financial self-awareness: Understanding your current financial situation
  • Financial confidence: Feeling confident about your ability to manage your personal finances
  • Financial goal-setting: Establishing and committing to a plan that takes current and future financial needs into consideration

Developing financial wellness is a lifelong skill - starting now, even while in college, creates a strong foundation for a financially healthy future.

Individualized Financial Wellness Coaching

Our team of Financial Wellness Coaches and Peer Coaches provides personalized one-on-one support to college students, empowering them to achieve their financial wellness goals. Our Coaches can guide you in topics like scholarship search strategies, managing your budget, understanding factors that affect credit, and much more.

For students interested in scheduling a coaching session, please send an email to finwell@fiu.edu or request information. Academic Advisors or Faculty members can also select our program as a referral in Panther Success Network (PSN) by clicking the “Issue a Referral” link and selecting “Financial Wellness Coaching Referral,” for students who may benefit from meeting with our coaches.

Departmental Presentations and Organization Collaborations

The Financial Wellness program aims to have a positive impact on the entire FIU community by offering financial readiness support. We offer customized presentations led by our seasoned Financial Wellness Coaches for students, faculty, and staff. Our team can work with you to identify the specific needs of your group and create a presentation covering relevant financial topics.

If you believe your department or student organization could benefit from a Financial Wellness presentation, please contact us via email at finwell@fiu.edu.

Financial Wellness Program Workshops

Our Financial Wellness Coaches and Financial Partners, such as Chase and Wells Fargo Banks, provide a wide selection of workshops ranging from various topics like Budgeting, Emotional Spending, Post-Graduation Funding, Credit Management, and more. Students must login to see the full list of available workshops. We hope to see you at our workshops this semester!

Browse Financial Wellness Workshops on PantherConnect ->

iGrad Financial Literacy Platform

FIU has partnered with iGrad to make its dynamic, fully online financial literacy platform accessible to all current students and alumni. On this platform students will find financial tools such as a the iGrad Scholarship Search, Paycheck Analyzer, and Budgeting tool.

New student users can get started on iGrad by completing the financial wellness checkup, which helps the platform customize each student’s dashboard with content and course recommendations based on their responses. The goal is to promote content topics that will be beneficial to each personal user.

You can find a wide variety of financial literacy topics on iGrad such as FAFSA support, saving and spending, investing, building credit, assessing insurance needs, and even financial considerations to look out for when you are trying to find your dream job.

Access FIU’s iGrad, log in using your FIU student credentials. Please note that faculty and staff are able to also utilize iGrad by logging in via the manual sign-up page and indicating that they are an administrator.

Contact Your Financial Wellness Program!

Our Financial Wellness Coaches meet 1-on-1 to support you. Click the link below to request coaching, collaborations, general information, and other financial wellness related services.

Connect with FWP here!