Full Ride Scholarships To Apply For
Description: The Cameron Impact Scholarship is a four-year, full-tuition, merit-based undergraduate scholarship awarded annually to 10-15 exceptional high school students who have demonstrated excellence in academics, extracurricular activities, leadership, and community service. The Cameron Impact Scholar is unique among their high-achieving peers in their desire to make an impact on their communities and in the world at large. Our Scholar aspires to contribute to positive forces for change and plans to tailor their education to that end. The Cameron Impact Scholarship covers the full tuition, fees, and books at any accredited U.S. based college or university that the recipient chooses to attend.
Amount Award: Varies
Due Date: April 1, 2025
Description: The Gates Millennium Scholarship (TGS) is a highly selective, last-dollar scholarship for outstanding, minority, high school seniors from low-income households. Each year, the scholarship is awarded to 300 of these student leaders, with the intent of helping them realize their maximum potential.
Amount Award: Varies
Due Date: April 1, 2025
QuestBridge National College Match
Description: We are looking for high school seniors who have shown outstanding academic ability despite financial challenges. We take a holistic approach to reviewing applications, and we do not have absolute criteria or cut-offs for GPA, standardized test scores, income, or other factors.
The National College Match is open to all U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents OR students, regardless of citizenship, currently attending high school in the United States.
Amount Award: $200,000
Due Date: April 2, 2025
Description: Students in the Flinn Scholars Program are articulate, fun-loving, and hard-working. They are generous, creative, curious—and imperfect. They have excelled in their high-school classrooms while maintaining purposeful involvement in extracurricular activities, whether in the arts or athletics, in laboratory research, or community service. They have assumed leadership roles at school and beyond.
Amount Award: $130,000
Due Date: September 8, 2025
Description: The Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Program is an undergraduate scholarship program available to high-achieving high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend and graduate from the nation’s best four-year colleges and universities.
Each award is intended to cover a significant share of the student’s educational experience – including tuition, living expenses, books, and required fees. Awards vary by individual, based on the cost of tuition as well as other grants or scholarships they may receive.
Amount Award: $55,000
Due Date: September 15, 2025
Description: The 5 Strong Scholarship Foundation partners with HBCUs to provide full-tuition scholarships and ongoing mentoring and support to promising student leaders. To be eligible for the 5 Strong program, all applications must reside in the Atlanta, GA metropolitan area (Fulton County and surrounding counties) and be a current-year graduating high school senior.
Amount Award: Full Tuition
Due Date: September 26, 2025
Description: SMART is a scholarship-for-service program that provides full tuition and other financial benefits to individuals in exchange for a period of post-graduation civilian service in a DoD facility. Another benefit of the program comes in the form of internships that allow for broadly relevant hands-on research and work experiences in DoD facilities, thereby enhancing their educational experience. The SMART Scholarship Program represents a critical DoD investment in attracting the best and brightest of minds whose technical expertise will help execute the Department’s mission.
Amount Award: $38,000
Due Date: October 18, 2025
Science Ambassador Scholarship
Description: The Science Ambassador Scholarship is a full-ride scholarship for undergraduate women studying science, technology, engineering, or math, funded by Cards Against Humanity. To apply, film a three–minute educational video of yourself explaining a STEM topic you’re passionate about. You must be a high school senior or an undergraduate college student to apply.
Amount Award: $20,000
Due Date: October 30, 2025
Air Force ROTC (Type 1 High School) Scholarship
Description: The U.S. Air Force ROTC High School Scholarship Program offers Type 1 and Type 2 scholarships to graduating high school seniors who meet specific eligibility criteria. Type 1 scholarships cover full tuition and authorized fees at any public or private institution with an Air Force ROTC detachment, while Type 2 scholarships pay up to $18,000 per year toward tuition and fees. Both scholarship types include a monthly living expense stipend and an annual book stipend.
Amount Award: Full Tuition
Due Date: November 16, 2025
Description: For more than 30 years, Posse has identified and trained young people with extraordinary potential who might be missed by elite schools. Our program places Scholars in supportive, multicultural groups of 10 students — Posses. With mentoring and full-tuition leadership scholarships from our partner colleges, Posse Scholars graduate at a rate of 90 percent. As alumni, they are well prepared and positioned for success.
Posse works with a network of public high schools and community-based organizations in 10 cities who nominate talented and diverse students. Students must be nominated for the Posse Scholars Program by someone in their community.
Amount Award: Varies
Due Date: November 24, 2025
Description: The U.S. Bank Student Scholarship is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are at least 17 years old and are accepted or enrolled as undergraduate students (enrolled for at least 6 credit hours per semester) as of September 1, 2026, at an eligible, accredited two- or four-year U.S. brick-and-mortar or online college or university.
Amount Award: $20,000
Due Date: December 1, 2025
Voyager Scholarship for Public Service
Description: The Voyager Scholarship, also known as the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, is open to current college sophomores in the United States who plan to enroll full-time in their junior year at an accredited four-year college or university in Fall 2025, including those transferring from a two-year to a four-year institution, and who demonstrate financial need.
Amount Award: $25,000
Due Date: December 1, 2025
Description: The AMS Doctoral Research award provides funding to doctoral students to help support full-time dissertation writing leading to dissertation completion in the humanities or social sciences, writing on a history of medicine/health care topic – broadly defined as the study of past practices and epistemologies related to human health, healthcare, and disease.
Amount Award: $25,000
Due Date: December 13, 2025
Description: The National Honor Society (NHS) Scholarship is open to high school seniors who are active NHS members in good standing, have an NHS student account verified by their chapter adviser, and plan to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S. college or university.
Amount Award: $25,000
Due Date: December 31, 2025
AACAP Junior Investigator Award
Description: The AACAP Junior Investigator Award is open to early career faculty at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry, offering up to $30,000 annually for two years to support innovative research aimed at enhancing the understanding, treatment, and prevention of child and adolescent mental health disorders.
Amount Award: $30,000
Due Date: January 10, 2026
Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums
Description: The Kress Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums are open to individuals who have recently completed a master's or Ph.D. in art history, art education, studio art, or museum studies, and are interested in pursuing careers in art museum education or curation. Applicants must secure a fellowship position at an American art museum that has successfully applied for funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to host a Kress Interpretive Fellow. The fellowships typically begin in late summer or early fall and last for 9 to 12 months.
Amount Award: $30,000
Due Date: January/February time
Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
Description: The Kress Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums are open to individuals who have recently completed a master's or Ph.D. in art history, art education, studio art, or museum studies, and are interested in pursuing careers in art museum education or curation. Applicants must secure a fellowship position at an American art museum that has successfully applied for funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to host a Kress Interpretive Fellow. The fellowships typically begin in late summer or early fall and last for 9 to 12 months.
Amount Award: $30,000
Due Date: Varies by location
Description: The Coolidge Scholarship is a full-ride scholarship that covers a student’s tuition, room, board, and expenses for four years of undergraduate study. The Coolidge Scholarship may be used by recipients at any American university. Anyone of any background, pursuing any academic discipline of study, may apply to this non-partisan, need-blind, program. ONLY current high school juniors are eligible to apply.
Amount Award: Varies
Due Date: January 18, 2026
USDA 1890 National Scholars Program
Description: The USDA/1890 National Scholars Program was established in 1992 as part of the partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the 1890 Land-Grant Universities. The goal of the USDA/1890 National Scholars Program is to increase the number of minorities studying agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, and the related disciplines.
Amount Award: Varies
Due Date: February 15, 2026
