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Merit Scholarships for First-Time Year Students from Outside of Ohio for Fall 2025

Eligibility

You will be considered for first-year student merit scholarships if you apply to 鶹Ƶ by February 15, 2025. You must apply and be admitted to 鶹Ƶ by December 1, 2024 to be considered for an invitation to apply to the Honors College.

You must be classified as a non-Ohio resident for tuition, be a U.S. citizen, declare a bachelor’s degree-granting major, and plan to enroll full-time at the Kent Campus. Students admitted to an online bachelor's degree program will be considered for the Academic Achievement Award and not the President's Achievement Award.

Allowances

If you will be the recipient of a 鶹Ƶ Employee Tuition Benefit Waiver or NEOMED employee tuition benefit, your tuition scholarship offer will be reduced or cancelled.   

Test-Optional Scores & Test Score Impact on Scholarships

鶹Ƶ is test-optional, meaning students are not required to submit standardized test scores (SAT and/or ACT). If you have test scores, you can request that your scores not be used in your admission decision. If submitted, the latest test scores that will be accepted for scholarship purposes is December 2024. Test scores taken after December 2024 will not be considered in the scholarship review process. 

鶹Ƶ will provide you with our best scholarship offer, regardless of whether test scores are used in your admission decision. 

Each of the scholarship programs listed below are competitive. Awards are not guaranteed.

 

STEPS FOR STARTING YOUR SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH
 

Apply for Admission

To be considered for our merit scholarships, you'll need to be an admitted or returning 鶹Ƶ Student. Get started with your 鶹Ƶ application today.

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Check Out 鶹Ƶ’s Scholarship Opportunities

ScholarshipUniverse is our scholarship-matching tool for admitted and current 鶹Ƶ students. It connects Flashes to millions of dollars in external scholarships.

Many departments have special scholarships for students in their majors. You can also access scholarships that might not yet be in ScholarshipUniverse from the departmental listing, which appears alongside our ScholarshipUniverse login on this same web page.

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Complete the Student Financial Aid Scholarship Application

The Student Financial Aid Scholarship Application allows students to be considered for multiple scholarships by completing one application. Each scholarship program below is extremely competitive and awards will be based on available funding.

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