Frances Meyer Hampton Graduate Scholarship

For incoming/current graduate students. Requires 3 letters of recommendation showing good character, financial need, and academic achievement.

Full description:
The following criteria must be met:
1. The recipient shall be accepted as a full-time graduate student in a Master’s degree program at Eastern Illinois University, must retain degree status in the selected program and provide evidence of full-time enrollment (9 semester hours) or enrollment in a program approved internship each semester that support is available.
2. The recipient shall have demonstrated good character, high scholarship ability, financial need, and potential for worthy future achievement.
3. The recipient(s) shall be eligible to receive the award one time only.

This award is announced in the Spring and shall be paid over two years, beginning the following Fall semester, in four equal installments.

Donor
Frances Meyer Hampton Graduate Scholarship
Award
Varies
Department
Eastern Illinois University - General, Graduate School
Deadline
02/15/2025
Supplemental Questions
  1. Are you accepted into a graduate program for the semester in which this award applies?
  2. Upload statement of financial need and a statement focusing on your professional goals.
  3. Upload a letter from the graduate program department verifying that the student has been accepted to a master’s degree program at Eastern Illinois University. The award will support two-years of full-time study; however, students enrolled in a one-year program of study may apply and should note that their program of study is one-year.
  4. Upload transcripts verifying high scholarship ability.
  5. Upload a letter from the Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the selected master's degree program that supports the criteria for the award which includes good character, high scholarship ability, and potential for worthy future achievement.
  6. Upload your first of two additional letters supporting that the applicant meets the criteria for the award that includes good character, high scholarship ability, and potential for worthy future achievement.
  7. Upload the second of two additional letters supporting that the applicant meets the criteria for the award that includes good character, high scholarship ability, and potential for worthy future achievement.
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