First-Year Requirements
Program Requirements
- Attend Welcome Informational Session via Zoom. There will be multiple session options during the week of August 11-15, 2025.
- Fully participate in Thrive Peer Mentoring - Sign-up here (sign in with your Arizona NetID and password).
- Meet with your academic advisor once in the fall semester AND once in the spring semester. Eller College of Management academic advisors need to complete the Arizona Assurance Academic Advisor Form. All other advising appointments will automatically be pulled through the UA's centralized scheduling system; during your advising meeting, request that you advisor change your meeting to "attended" if they did not already do so.
Financial & Academic Requirements
Requirements are checked in phases. Phase I ensures you submitted your FAFSA by the March 1st deadline. If you met the FAFSA deadline, remaining requirements are reviewed in early June. Final renewal and non-renewal emails are usually sent in June of each year.
- File your FAFSA by March 1, 2026.
- Final corrections to your FAFSA must be made by May 1, 2026.
- Remain Pell Grant eligible (this will be determined by your FAFSA).
- Maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP).
You are able to take summer classes if you are not meeting SAP, and if you are meeting SAP at the end of summer you can become eligible for AZA without an appeal.
For more information on appeals, visit the Office of Scholarships & Financial Aid AZA Appeals & Deferments page.
ARIZONA ASSURANCE 2025-2026 TERMS & CONDITIONS (coming soon)