Students in Missouri planning to attend college will be looking for scholarships to help them get a free ride.
Scholarships are awarded on one of three factors: either needs-based, merit-based or profession-based.
In some cases they can also be minority-based and institution-based. For students looking for a need-based scholarship, the Charles Gallagher Student Assistance Program offers awards of up to $1500.
Students applying for merit-based scholarships might be interested in the Chancellor’s Scholarship with an award of up to $12,000.
For students intending to go into the teaching profession, the Missouri Teachers Scholarship Program offers an award of up to $2000.
Other scholarship opportunities and awards include:
- Charles L. Bacon Memorial Scholarship $500
- M.D. “Jack” Murphy Memorial Scholarship $750
- Missouri Dept of Health & Senior Services $5000
- Missouri Insurance Education Foundation Scholarship $2000
- Missouri Minority Teaching Scholarship $3000
Students can also contact their high school counselor, college financial aid office, student adviser or admissions office for more information on how to conduct a search and apply for applicable scholarships they may be eligible for.
Here is a list of opportunities in Missouri to get you started:
• 125th Anniversary Scholarship
• 1890 Scholars Program
• 1890 USDA Scholarship
• 4-H Leadership Scholarship in Human Environmental Sciences
• 7th Annual Alumni & Friends Golf Classic Diamond Benefactor Scholarship
• 7th Annual Alumni & Friends Golf Classic Gold Benefactor Sponsorship Scholarship
• 7th Annual Alumni & Friends Golf Classic Silver Benefactor Sponsorship Scholarship
• A. Brooks & Frances W. Poynter Trust Scholarship
• A. Lamkin James Memorial Scholarship
• A. Sterl Artley Scholarship
• A. Susan Leeddick Scholarship
• A.C.E. Louise M. Gross Memorial Scholarship
• A.F. Hendricks Physics Scholarship
• A.F. Yanders Arts & Science Scholarship
• A.G. Edwards Scholarship
• A.R. Herman Scholarship
• A+ Award
• A+ Leadership Award
• A+ Scholarship
• Aaron’s Automotive Products-C.R. Wehr, Jr. Scholarship
• Abe & Clara Field Scholarship
• Abraham-Miller Human Resource Management Scholarship
• Abraham-Miller International Management Scholarship
• Academic Honor Scholarship
• Academic Promise Award
• Academy of American Poets Scholarship
• Accountancy Scholarship
• Accounting & Finance Club Scholarship
• Accounting Club Scholarship
• Accounting Department Scholarship
• Adam Popejoy Scholarship
• Adams L. & Cynthia M. Grueber Nursing Advancement Scholarship
• Adelaide G. Heverly Weige Scholarship
• Adele Dunne Scholarship
• Adele Overall Black Memorial Scholarship
• Adeline Hoffman Scholarships
• Adeline M. Hoffman Scholarship
• Adella Ginter Scholarship
• Adene C. Keller Scholarship
• Aden-Gundaker Scholarship
• Adler-Rosecan Scholarship
• Adult Learner “Return to Learn” Scholarship
• Advisors Scholarship-Springfield Life Underwriters
• Afton High School Scholarship
• Agnes McCreary Memorial Scholarship
• Agriculture Alumni Scholarship
• Agriculture Club Scholarship
• AI & Americans for the Arts Poster Design Contest
• Aileen Corbin-Pi Kappa Delta Scholarship
• Aimee Dixon Scholarship
• Aimee N. Moore Undergraduate Scholarship in Dietetics
• Aird-LeMone Scholarship
• Al & Margaret Hemphill Scholarship
• Alan Grout Memorial Scholarship in Foreign Languages
• Alberici Scholarship
• Albert & Rose Hrubetz Student Scholarship
• Albert Feldhoff Memorial Scholarship
• Albert H. & Dorothy E. Macke Scholarship
• Albert J. Weis Memorial Science Scholarship
• Albert L. Verweire Scholarship
• Albert Waldo Holman University High School Memorial Scholarship
• Albert Winemiller Scholarship
• Albertsons Scholars Award
• Alda C. Michel Scholarship
• Aldo A. Sebben Athletics Scholarship
• Aleen Vogel Wehking Scholarship
• Aleppo Grotto Scholarship
• Aleta McDowell Crawford Scholarship
• Alex & Alice Aboussie Scholarship Fund
• Alex Cramer Memorial Scholarship
• Alexander County-Edna Walker Scholarship
• Alexander Grammaticoff Endowed Scholarship
• Alexander Pickard Marching Mizzou Endowed Scholarlship
• Alfred C. Scott ’32 Scholarship
• Alfred Fleishman Scholarship
• Alice Graves Lind Memorial Scholarship
• Alice Kruse Ministerial Scholarship Fund
• Alice McEwen Nursing Scholarship
• Alice Roth Scholarship
• Alicia C. Wilson Endowed Scholarship
• Allan A. Goldberg Scholarship-St. Louis Chapter fo RIMS
• Allen & Maude Clarke McReynolds Scholarship
• Allen Cook White, Jr. Scholarship
• Allen H. Parke Memorial Scholarship
• Allen M. & Barbara P. Soshnik Memorial Scholarship
• Allstate Foundation Scholarship
• Alma Crites Gardner Scholarship
• Aloyslus B. Bussman Scholarship
• Alpha Delta Kappa-Alpha Tau Chapter Scholarship
• Alpha Delta Kappa-Alpha Tau-Women Educators Scholarship
• Alpha Delta Kappa-Beta Lambda Scholarship
• Alpha Delta Kappa-Beta lota Chapter Scholarship
• Alpha Iota President’s Scholarship
• Alpha Kappa Psi Achievement
• Alpha Kappa Psi Roswell Messing Scholarship
• Alpha Sigma Nu Scholarship
• Billy Joe West Memorial 4-H Scholarship
• BioKyowa Scholarship
• Biological Sciences Award
• Biological Sciences Scholarships for International Study
• Biology Alumni Scholarship
• Biology Education Scholarship
• Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess Scholarship
• Bishop DuBourg High School Scholarship
• BKD Graduate Scholarship
• BKD Scholarship
• Black Business Students Association & State Farm Foundation Scholarship
• Black Business Students Association Scholarship
• Black Law Students Association Scholarship
• Black River Electric Co-Operative Scholarship
• Black Scholarship Fund
• Blackburn-Hesemann Scholarship
• Blanche Cline Merwin Scholarship
• Blumenthal Graduate Scholarships
• Board of Associates-Fulton Colleges Fund Scholarship
• Board of Governors Scholarship
• Board of Trustees Scholarship
• Bob & Virginia Herb Voice Scholarship
• Bob Comer Memorial Scholarship
• Bob G. Woods Scholarship
• Bob Ralph Endowed Scholarship
• Bob Williams Scholarship
• Bobby Jo Waggoner Memorial Nursing Scholarship
• Boeing Company Scholarship
• Boeing Minority MIS Scholarship
• Boeing MIS Scholarship
• Boeing Software Engineering Scholarship
• Boeing Undergraduate Scholarship
• Bouckaert Scholarship
• Boudeman Scholarship
• Brady & Anne Deaton Friends of Music Endowed Scholarship
• Brandt Endowment Fund
• Brenda Brown Endowed Scholarship
• Brent J. Bowman Endowed Book Scholarship
• Brian M. Shamel Memorial Scholarship
• Bridge to Success Scholarships
• Bright Flight Missouri Higher Education Academic Scholarships
• Bright Flight Scholarship Program
• Bruce K. Edwards Scholarship
• Bryan J. Fitzgerald Memorial Sousaphone Scholarship
• Bryan Scot Schowengerdt Memorial Scholarship
• Bryce Allen Memorial Scholarship
• BSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Scholarship
• Bud Berman Memorial Scholarship
• Builders’ Association Foundation Scholarship
• Business Student Scholarship
• Byrne Blackwood Scenic Design Scholarship
• C. Edward & Greta S. Carroll Scholarship
• C. Louis & Thelma Ferrell Van Buren Scholarship
• C. Ray Holman Scholarship
• C. Wallace Walter Memorial Scholarship
• C.P. Black, Jr. Scholarship
• Calkins Family Endowed Scholarship
• Callaway County Alumni Association Scholarship
• Calvin Chapman Scholarship
• Campbell-Harrison Scholarship
• Capa Human Resource Scholarship
• Cape County Friends of Law Enforcement Scholarship
• Cape Girardeau County Area Medical Society Alliance Scholarship
• Cape Girardeau County Legal Secretaries Scholarship
• Cape West Rotary Scholarship
• Captain Edwin W. Cardin Memorial Scholarship
• Capuchin Scholarship
• Career Changers Scholarship
• Careers in Compounding Scholarship
• Carl & Jane Ann Bolte Spirit Scholarship
• Carl B. Rexroad Geological Sciences Endowed Scholarship
• Carl Christian, Nevada Susan Friedrich-Dorothy Friedrich Rose Scholarship
• Carl Halusa Scholarship
• Carl M. Myers, M.D. Chemistry Scholarship
• Carla Hinton Memorial Biology Scholarship
• Carol & Martin Horn Lambert Scholarship
• Carol Ann Roberson Williams-Dr. Kate Ellen Rogers Scholarship
• Carol Westerman Campbell Memorial Scholarship
• Carolyn A. Dorsey Minority Fellowship Scholarship
• Carolyn J. Pasterski Memorial Scholarship
• Carolyn Love Sparks Scholarship
• Carr Foundation MBA Scholarship
• Carrie L. Hammack-Saint Louis Bread Company Scholarship
• Carrie T. Nauyalis Communications
• Carroll & Pauline Hochwait Scholarship
• Catherine & Rogers Whitmore Music Endowed Scholarship
• Catherine P. & John M. Joyce Scholarship
• CBS Foundation Scholarship Program
• Cecil & Carol Troutwine Scholarship
• Cecil A. Blue Memorial Scholarship
• Cecil Elsie Gross Education Scholarship
• Cecil I. & Orrine Z. Gregory Scholarship
• Cecil Scholarship
• Cecillia Triggs Denvir Scholarship
• Cedric Siegfried Scholarship
• Centennial Leades Scholarship
• Center of Excellence Award for Geographic Information Systems Incentive Award
• Central High School Scholarship
• Appolonia Scholarship
• Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) Scholarships (college)
• Arete Scholarship Fund
• Arkansas Catholics & Jesuit Student Aid
• Arlyn M. Gerwin Memorial Scholarship
• Armin F. & Vivian M. Gimbel Achievement Scholarship
• Art & Design Department Scholarship
• Art & Design Scholarship
• Art Faculty Scholarship
• Art Performance Grant
• Art, Band & Music Scholarships
• Arthur Andersen Scholarship
• Arthur F. & James Carson Scholarship
• Arthur G. Tesar Scholarship Fund
• Arthur T. Schramm Memorial Scholarship
• Arthur William Hoffman Scholarship
• Arts & Science Alumni Organization Scholarship
• Arts & Science Minority Scholarship
• Arts & Science Student Council Scholarship
• Ash Grove Cement Scholarship
• Associated Electric Scholarship
• Association of Government Accountants-Ozark Chapter Scholarship
• Athletic Awards
• Athletic Grant-In-Aid
• Atwoods Stores Scholarship
• Audrain County Chapter of MUAA Scholarship
• August A. Busch, Jr. Humanities Scholarship
• August A. Busch, Jr. Memorial Endowment
• August R. Meyer Scholarship
• Ava Class of 1925 Scholarship
• Aven L. Roberts & Eugenia (Ritchie) Roberts Cain Scholarship
• Aventis Outstanding Medical Student Scholarship
• B. Frank & Ora Dale Ryan Gillette Scholarship
• B.F. & Carrie Woodburn Johnson Memorial Mathematics Scholarship
• B.H. Armstrong Design Scholarship
• Baird, Kurtz & Dobson Scholarship
• Baker Chair of Insurance Scholarship
• Ballinger-Colon-Compton Scholarship
• Band & Orchestra Development Scholarship
• Band Scholarship
• Bank of America Scholarship
• Bank of America-College of Business Scholarship
• Bank of Gainesville, Missouri Banking Scholarship
• Barbara J. & Kenneth W. Levy Endowed Nursing Fellowship for Excellence
• Barbara Jones Ameduri Memorial Scholarship
• Barrett Scholarship
• Barry Lewis Memorial Scholarship
• Basier B&A Scholarship
• Basil & JoAnn Boritzki Scholarship
• Basil Boritzki Academic Achievement Scholarship
• Basil Gauntlett Music Award
• Baskett Scholarship
• Baugh-Long Scholarship for International Studies
• Bea Litherland Smith Scholarship
• Beatrice & Russell Johnson Endowed Scholarship
• Beatrice Dempster College of Business Scholarship
• Bee S. Limbaugh Scholarship
• Ben & Elizabeth Jackson Scholarship
• Ben Ely, Jr. Defense Lawyer Scholarship
• Ben Nelms Scholarship
• Ben Soto Costume Scholarship
• Benedict & Eleanor Janson Scholarship
• Benjamin H. Anibal Scholarship
• Benjamin R. Fulkerson, S.J. Memorial Endowed Scholarship
• Benoist Scholarship
• Bensberg Memorial Fund Scholarship
• Bernard Rice Scholarship
• Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library Scholarshps
• Bernice Binenstock Furniture Library Scholarships
• Bernice Gabriel Memorial Scholarship
• Bernice Jackson Scholarship
• Bertha (Sampson) Miller Memorial Scholarship
• Bess & Harold Thayer Scholarship Fund
• Beta Forestry Summer Camp Scholarship
• Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship
• Betty Berry Glenn Science Scholarship
• Betty Crim Endowed Nursing Scholarship
• Betty Groshong Memorial Scholarship
• Betty J. Teeter Scholarship
• Beverly Enterprises, Inc. Scholarship
• BIGALA Scholarship
• Bill & Pat Limbaugh Atchley Scholarship
• Bill & Virginia Ralls Darr Scholarship
• Bill DeLong Memorial Scholarship
• Bill Emerson Congressional Scholarship
• Bill Ferrell Endowed Scholarship
• Bill H. Armstrong Scholarship for Excellence
• Bill L. & Barbara Bruce Scholarship
• Bill Shelby Family & Broadway Music Co., Inc. Scholarship
• Bill Sims Athletic Scholarship
• Bill Snyder Memorial Scholarship
• Billie O’Neal Scholarship
• Billiken Pride Scholarship
• Alta Mae Harness Memorial Scholarship
• Alton Bray Scholarship
• Alumnae Association Scholarship
• Alumni Association of Business Professionals-Cape Girardeau County Scholarship
• Alumni Association Scholarship
• Alumni-Minority Scholarship
• Alva Doll Memorial Scholarship
• American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) Scholarships
• American Business Women’s Association-Cape City of Roses Scholarship
• American Business Women’s Association-Jacksonian Chapter Scholarship
• American Family Insurance Scholarship
• American Humanics Scholarship
• American National Property & Casualty Companies Actuarial-Insurance Scholarship
• American Royal Centennial Scholarship Fund
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Student Leadership Scholarship
• AmeriCorps-Vista-Teach for America Graduate Scholarships
• Ammon D. Schaeffer Memorial Scholarship
• Amtrak Travel Scholarship
• Amy Kelly Scholarship
• Amy Shelton McNutt Scholarship
• Ana Riojas Memorial Scholarship
• Anderson-Glynn-Januzzo Scholarship
• Anheuser Busch Foundation Scholarship
• Anheuser-Busch Community College Scholarship
• Anita Lande Memorial Scholarship
• Ann Andrews Art Award & Scholarship
• Ann Page Theatre Scholarship
• Ann Scott Carell Scholarship
• Ann Stevens Hoffman Memorial Scholarship
• Ann Weber Hoyt & Earl H. Hoyt Scholarship
• Anna B. Jefferson Memorial Scholarship
• Anna Balley Scholarship
• Anna C. Draughon Political Science Scholarship
• Anna L. Blair Scholarship
• Anna Lou Wilson Bintzer Scholarship
• Anna Louise Latimer Education Scholarship
• Anne & Joan Hubbard Endowed Scholarship
• Anne Waldbart Mission Fund
• Anne Westlake Elsberry & Howard E. Elsberry Family Scholarship
• Annette McClanahan Harrison Endowed Nursing Scholarship
• Annette Wells Memorial Scholarship
• Annual Memorial Scholarship
• Anonymous Student Scholarship
• Anthropology Student Scholarship
• A-Plus Scholarship