Grants
Grants are usually based on your financial need and do not have to be repaid. Most grants are designed for undergraduate students.
AKAdvantage Grant
Eligibility:
- Need-based grant
- AK residents attending AK institutions
- Priority is given to students pursuing degrees in Alaska workforce priority programs (e.g. allied health, social and community services, or teaching) or who have an ACT score of 25 or higher or SAT score 1180 or higher.
Award amount:
- Part-time awards range from $500 to $1,000 per academic year.
- Full-time awards range from $1,000 to $2,000 per academic year.
How to apply:
- Varies.
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Eligibility:
- Undregraduate full-time students
- Must be at least one-quarter American Indian or Alaska Native
Award amount:
- $200-$3,000 ($1,600 on averag at UAF or more each year based on financial need and as a supplement to other financial aid
How to apply:
- Contact:
BIA Regional Office
1675 C Street
Anchorage, Alaska, 99501-5198
Telephone: 907-271-4115
The Edward & Anna Range Schmidt Charitable Trust
Established in 1993 to encourage and assist promising students to pursue education in the sciences, particularly earth and environmental sciences. The primary focus of the Trust is to assist rural Alaskan Natives prepare for roles in the planning and control of the land and its natural resources and to aid them in becoming positive role models. The Trust is also interested in assisting promising minority students in Alaska.
Eligibility:
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Contact the Financial Aid office for more information.
Award amount:
- Varies.
How to apply:
- Applications accepted anytime and must be made by letter from a sponsor. Write to:
PO Box 770982
Eagle River, AK 99577
or call Nora Shew or Frederic Wilson at 907-786-7445/7448.
EPSCoR Grants
Alaska EPSCoR supports training of students for the 21st century technologically-based workforce.
Eligibility:
- Faculty
- Undergraduate students
- Graduate students
- Focus areas:
- physiology,
- genomics,
- engineering,
- contaminants
Award amount:
- Varies.
How to apply:
- For more information visit Alaska EPSCoR.
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)
Elegibility:
- Exceptionally needy undergraduate students
Award amount:
- $1,000 - $4,000 each year depending on funding appropriated by the U.S. Congress.
How to apply:
- For more information visit the U.S. Department of Education.
Graduate Travel Grants
Travel grants are suspended until further notice. For more information, contact the Graduate School or visit their informational PDF.
Pell Grant
Eligibility:
- Undergraduate students pursuing certificate, associate or bachelor's degrees.
Award amount:
- $400 - $4,310, adjusted annually by the U.S. Congress
- Based on your cost of attendance, expected family contribution (EFC) and enrollment status
How to apply:
Likely Pell Grant scenarios for 2011-2012
As Congress continues to debate budget issues, schools are left to wonder what to tell their students about Pell Grant availability for summer and the upcoming academic year. A betting man would probably say that the authority to make second scheduled awards (a.k.a. year-round Pell) has such low odds of surviving it isn’t worth the bet. Whether we will even maintain the current maximum Pell Grant award for 2011-12 has become a critical question, and schools are also wondering whether they will have to retract information about 2011-12 Pell Grants already given to students by both the school and the Department of Education.
Any action schools may ultimately have to take will in part be dependent on the effective date of changes made to the Pell Grant Program, and that piece of crucial information remains unknown at this point. In the meantime, schools need to follow current regulations, laws, and funding rules, and use the information that is currently available: the official payment and disbursement schedules that the Department of Education issued. While we may speculate on how those schedules could change if the maximum award is reduced, schools should not be making their own changes at this point.
(Note that a reduction in the maximum award would not likely result in a uniform dollar reduction across the chart; awards are more likely to change by a percentage than by a set dollar amount.)
Also impacting possible choices a school may or may not have are regulations mandating treatment of crossover payment periods, the continued viability of which has been brought into question but remains unresolved. Those regulations are independent of the statutory authority to pay second scheduled awards, so that separate action is necessary to change them.
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, (NASFAA) March 21, 2011
Student Support Services Program (SSSP) Grants
Eligibility:
- SSSP program participants who have made use of the SSS academic support services and are receiving Pell Grant funds
- To be eligible to participate in Student Support Services, you must be a
- First generation college (student neither parent has a college degree), OR
- Have a documented learning or physical disability, OR
- Qualify as a low income student
Award amount:
- Varies.
How to apply:
- For more information visit the Student Support Services Program.
University of Alaska (UA) Grant
Eligibility:
- AK resident
- Need-based
- Must have completed the FAFSA by April 15
- Admitted to a degree program
- Enrolled in at least 6 or more credits
- Students who have completed less than 60 credits towards their undergraduate degree
- Maintaining academic eligibility as defined by the financial aid office policy of satisfactory academic progress
Award amount:
- Varies, capped at a maximum of $1,000
How to apply:
- Contact the Financial Aid office for more information.