Financial Support for Honors College Students
As an Honors College student at Westminster, you'll have access to exclusive financial aid options.
Acadmic Excellence Scholarship interviews take place February–March.
100%
Incoming Honors students
Received a scholarship
Fall 2025
26%
First-generation students
Plus nearly 35% Pell-eligible students
Spring 2026
Incoming Student Scholarships
Amount: $5,000/year for 4 years
Deadline: February 1
Each year, the Honors College awards this scholarship to 4 incoming, first-year students who show promise in academic excellence, campus leadership, and genuine interest in the Honors College's learning environment. Applying for this scholarship won't affect your Honors College application in any way.
Required Application Materials
Write a 1–3-page essay reflecting on novelist Toni Morrison's advice to those in positions of influence—"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else" (2003 interview)—and discuss a time you witnessed this in action.
Amount: $2,500/year
Deadline: June 1
Each year, the Honors College awards this scholarship to transfer students who show promise in academic excellence, campus leadership, and genuine interest in the Honors College's learning environment. Applying for this scholarship won't affect your Honors College application in any way.
Required Application Materials
Write a 1–3-page essay reflecting on novelist Toni Morrison's advice to those in positions of influence—"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else" (2003 interview)—and discuss a time you witnessed this in action.
Current Student Scholarships
Amount: About $50,000 distributed yearly
Deadline: February 1
Each spring semester, the Honors College awards a variety of scholarships to students with financial need. These funds require an application for continuing aid and are available due to endowments established over the years by generous donors who believe in the mission of the Honors College and the work of our students.
Amount: $3,500/student
Deadline: February 25, 2027
Each year, the Honors College gives this award to 3 students engaged in summer research. These awards are designed to support Honors College students who are conducting high-level research during the summer in lieu of a full-time summer job.
Amount: $2,500
Deadline: February 25, 2027
Recognizing the immense value in external arts opportunities and/or the creation of original art, alongside the difficulty in finding funding to support those opportunities, every summer the Westminster Honors College offers the Katie Nelson Summer Arts Practicum Grant. This grant is designed to provide summer funding to support one student who is pursuing the arts in a professional capacity over the summer for little or no pay or who have an artistic vision that they would like to execute during that period.
Amount: $7,500 yearly in cash prizes
Deadline: February 25, 2027
At its annual spring celebration, the Honors College distributes cash awards that total $7,500 to students who have created standout coursework—both essays and creative projects—during the academic year.
Amount: $1,000/student
Deadline: Rolling
Every Honors student in good academic standing can receive a $1,000 grant to help support presenting their research at an academic conference.
Amount: Up to $1,500/student
Deadline: November 16, 2026
Each year, this award supports 4 students with financial need during their month-long studies in a May Term Study Experience (MTSE) Honors seminar—2 Adamson Awards and 2 Fang Awards. Awards won't exceed the total cost of the chosen international study experience.
Amount: $1,000–3,000/student
Deadline: February 25, 2027
Each year, the Honors College gives this grant to students with financial need to support their global studies trips during May Term. There's also funding available for the study abroad program at Glasgow University.