Scholarships
Exploring Your Financial Resources for an AU Education
Scholarships are a type of gift aid that you don’t need to repay. AU has many scholarships available based on a variety of criteria and some require an application or a few additional steps to be awarded. The best way for your family to discover if there are additional funds that you qualify for is to set up a scholarship profile. Your profile in our scholarship manager will flag any additional scholarships that you may qualify for based on your talents, program of interest, service, leadership, diversity, and more.
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Merit Scholarships
All incoming traditional undergraduate and transfer students are considered for merit scholarships. These academic-based scholarships are awarded to incoming students only and renewable each academic year based on GPA and Satisfactory Academic Progress.
Edwards Scholarship (GPA > 3.75): $16,000/year
Nicholson Scholarship (GPA 3.50-3.74): $14,000/year
Reardon Scholarship (GPA 3.25-3.49): $11,000/year
Morrison Award (GPA 2.75-3.24): $9,000/year
Raven Award (GPA < 2.74): $6,000/year
Edwards Transfer Merit Scholarship (GPA > 3.75): $16,000/year
Nicholson Transfer Merit Scholarship (GPA 3.5-3.74): $14,000/year
Reardon Transfer Merit Scholarship (GPA 3.25-3.49): $11,000/year
Morrison Transfer Merit Scholarship (GPA 3.0-3.24): $9,000/year
Raven Transfer Award (GPA < 2.9): $6,000/year
Calculate Your Merit Scholarship Amount
Incoming freshmen:
The calculation for your merit scholarship is based on either your GPA or a calculation of your GPA and test scores (whichever gives the student the highest benefit).
Transfer students:
The calculation for your merit scholarship is based on your college GPA.
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Institutional Scholarships
Scholarships are available based on a variety of criteria including academic achievement, financial need, high school attended, and program of study. Admitted students should create a scholarship profile to apply for additional institutional scholarships in our scholarship manager. There are over 500 endowed scholarships available, which are specific funds made available by private donors. A few examples of available scholarships are listed below.
Local
- Dickmann Scholarship (Business)
- Madison County Scholarship
- Myers Autoworld Award (Business)
Majors
- Cybersecurity Scholarship (Cybersecurity)
- Dickmann Scholarship (Business)
- Kothari Scholarship (Pre-Med)
- McCardwell Scholarship (Business)
- Myers Autoworld Award (Business)
- Ontario Systems Scholarship (Computer Science)
- School of Science & Engineering Scholarship (Science & Engineering)
*Not all scholarships may be combined. Contact your financial aid counselor for more information.
External Scholarships & Funds
Best Colleges.com – Financial Aid for Minority Students
College Affordability for Minority Students
FastWEB Set up a personalized profile that will match your specific skills, abilities, and interests to fastWEB’s database of over 400,000 scholarships.
Graduate Tutor GraduateTutor.com’s Scholarship Directory has $1.6 million worth of scholarships and is quickly growing. It is a free scholarship directory and requires no registration. Students can search for scholarships in multiple ways including keywords, courses, deadline, who it is open to, and the scholarship amount.