The best way for students to increase their chance of receiving a scholarship is by filling out all of the questions in ScholarshipUniverse each year. Students are asked questions about demographic, academic, and extracurricular information. We ask students to make an update each year because some questions (current GPA, current academic year, career interests) may change overtime. Because some scholarships have very specific criteria, knowing that a student is from a rural high school, interested in a certain major, etc. can help the Scholarship Coordinators pair them with that scholarship. Each college/department has different awards given to First-Generation students.
Internal Scholarships:
A&S (Check out your specific department for scholarships as well)
College of Education & Human Development
College of Health Sciences (Click on the Richard E. and Carol B. First-Generation Scholarship)
National First-Generation Scholarships
Click this link to view the most up to date national First-gen scholarship list. Check back often as deadlines change throughout the year.