
Scholarships and Awards
Undergraduate Awards Program:
Great Plains Exceptional Scholarship Full Tuition Award Terms and Conditions:
- The award represents a 100% tuition award (does not include fees) for on campus courses for eight consecutive semesters (fall and spring only, provided renewal criteria are met).
- The award is contingent upon you living on campus your freshmen year.
- You must maintain enrollment in 15 or more credit hours (on campus courses only) per semester.
- You must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.3 per semester. You must be enrolled in the Honors Program.
- Students who withdraw will forfeit their award.
- If all or a portion of your tuition is paid by a 3rd party agency, this award may be reduced or canceled.
- The award is non-refundable.
- A student may receive only one tuition waiver award per year. Students eligible for more than one award will receive the greater of the academic awards being offered.
- The maximum amount a student can receive from institutional funds cannot exceed the tuition, fees and books, and room and board (if living on campus). Institutional funds include any award program and endowed scholarships.
Great Plains Transfer Scholarship Tuition Award
- The award is divided between fall and spring semesters.
- You must have completed a minimum of 24 credits and no more than 70 transferable semester hours of earned credit.
- You must be enrolled in a minimum of 15 credits of on campus courses per fall and spring semester.
- You must earn a minimum GPA for fall term of 2.25.
- The award is one-time, non-renewable.
- Students who withdraw will forfeit their award.
- If all or a portion of your tuition is paid by a 3rd party agency, this award may be reduced or canceled.
- The award is non-refundable.
- A student may receive only one tuition waiver award per year. Students eligible for more than one award will receive the greater of the academic awards being offered.
- The maximum amount a student can receive from institutional funds cannot exceed the tuition, fees and books, and room and board (if living on campus). Institutional funds include any award program and endowed scholarships.
Distinctive and Engaged Scholar Award
- The award is divided between fall and spring semesters.
- You must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credits of on campus courses per fall and spring semester.
- You must earn a minimum GPA for fall term of 2.25.
- The award is one-time, non-renewable.
- Students who withdraw will forfeit their award.
- If all or a portion of your tuition is paid by a 3rd party agency, this award may be reduced or canceled.
- The award is non-refundable.
- A student may receive only one tuition waiver award per year. Students eligible for more than one award will receive the greater of the academic awards being offered.
- The maximum amount a student can receive from institutional funds cannot exceed the tuition, fees and books, and room and board (if living on campus). Institutional funds include any award program and endowed scholarships.
Service for the Common Good Award
- The award is divided between fall and spring semesters.
- You must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credits of on campus courses per fall and spring semester.
- You must earn a minimum GPA for fall term of 2.25.
- The award is one-time, non-renewable.
- Students who withdraw will forfeit their award.
- If all or a portion of your tuition is paid by a 3rd party agency, this award may be reduced or canceled.
- The award is non-refundable.
- A student may receive only one tuition waiver award per year. Students eligible for more than one award will receive the greater of the academic awards being offered.
- The maximum amount a student can receive from institutional funds cannot exceed the tuition, fees and books, and room and board (if living on campus). Institutional funds include any award program and endowed scholarships.
Cultural Diversity Award Terms and Conditions:
- You must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credits both fall and spring semesters.
- You must successfully complete a minimum of 24 credits during the fall and spring semesters.
- The award applies to only the tuition charged for on-campus and off campus face-to-face courses.
- You must achieve a 2.25 or higher semester GPA and 2.25 or higher cumulative GPA at the end of each semester.
- Students who withdraw will forfeit their award.
- If all or a portion of your tuition is paid by a 3rd party agency, this award may be reduced or canceled.
- The award is non-refundable.
- Available to US residents only.
ND residents - 50% tuition waiver
Contiguous residents - 25% tuition waiver
WUE residents - 10% tuition waiver
Other - 10% tuition waiver - Transfer students must have achieved a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.25 and transfer no more than 75 credits.
- A student may receive only one tuition waiver award per year. Students eligible for more than one award will receive the greater of the academic awards being offered.
- The maximum amount a student can receive from institutional funds cannot exceed the tuition, fees and books, and room and board (if living on campus). Institutional funds include any award program and endowed scholarships.
All awards are subject to change by institutional or state board policy.
3/23/12

