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Financial Aid Scholarships

Financial Aid Student financial aid programs are intended to provide assistance to students who do not have the necessary financial resources to meet educational costs. Most students qualify for some type of assistance. For scholarships recognizing academic excellence and not generally based on financial need, refer to the following information on Scholarships. Only United States citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply for financial aid. Information about all state, federal, and institutional aid programs is available from the Financial Aid Office, Student Services Building, Room 3605, (619) 594-6323. A financial aid brochure which describes the programs available, the eligibility requirements, rights and responsibilities of receiving aid, and the standards a student must maintain to be considered to be making satisfactory academic progress to establish and maintain eligibility for financial aid is available from the Financial Aid Office. Information is also available on the World Wide Web: http://www.sdsu.edu. Applying for Aid Applicants who want to be considered for all types of state and federal financial aid should apply as soon after January 1 as possible by completing a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Since new California grant program applicants must apply by March 2, we strongly encourage all applicants to apply by this date. Applications are reviewed and awarded throughout the year based on available funding. January through May, however, is considered the optimum time period to apply for aid to receive funding at the beginning of the fall semester. Cost of Living To ensure equity, San Diego State University establishes standard student budgets in coordination with The California State University system. Student budgets, updated annually for inflation are currently: Costs of Attendance for the 1997-97 Academic Year* Living off Living on Commuting Campus Campus from Home Registration fee for materials, service, student activity, student union, facilities $ 1902 $1902 $1902 Books and supplies 648 648 648 Room and board 6710 6192 2225 Transportation 748 583 602 Personal 1788 1715 1843 Total $11,976 $11,040 $7220 In addition to the registration fee, nonresident (foreign and out-of-state) students pay tuition (see Schedule of Fees section). All fees and costs are subject to change without notice. * 1997-98 costs not available at time of printing. Refund Policy Information concerning the refund policy of San Diego State University for the return of unearned tuition and fees or other refundable portions of costs is available from the University Cashiers Office, Student Services Building, Room 2620, (619) 594-5253. Information concerning San Diego State University policies regarding any refund due to the federal Title IV student assistance programs as required by the regulations is available from the Financial Aid Office, Student Services Building, Room 3605, (619) 594-5253. Scholarships Scholarships reward academic excellence and are not generally based on financial need. For financial aid not based on academic record, refer to the preceding information on Financial Aid. All students, regardless of nationality, citizenship, or residency status, are eligible, with appropriate grade point average, to apply for scholarships. Scholarships and Fellowships Administered by Departments Students receive scholarships, fellowships, grants, or stipends through the various departments. Federal, state, and private industry support programs of this nature are largely directed to students doing graduate work or to students preparing for some special field of work. Students who have decided on some particular area of study should check with an adviser in the department of their major to determine what scholarship, fellowship, grant, or stipend support might be available to them. Fellowships for Graduate School As a general rule, students planning graduate work should inquire about graduate fellowship support from the graduate school to which they are applying. The San Diego State University Scholarship Office receives the annual announcements on most national awards including Fulbright, Ford, Rotary, Rhodes, and Marshall scholarships. Students interested in fellowships of this type are encouraged to discuss their applications with members of the San Diego State University faculty who have themselves in the past received these fellowships. Scores from the Graduate Record Examination, Law School Admission Test, Admission Test for Graduate Schools of Business, Dental Admissions Test, or Medical Colleges Admission Test, as appropriate, are required in applying for most fellowships; therefore students should take the appropriate test early in the fall of their senior year. Information concerning these tests may be obtained from the San Diego State University Test Office, SS-2549, (619) 594-5216. San Diego State University Scholarships Scholarship Philosophy and Eligibility Requirements A scholarship is a monetary award given to outstanding students to recognize them for their academic excellence, leadership, achievements and promise. They are provided by private donors, corporations, professional associations and alumni. High school seniors and undergraduate or graduate students may apply for scholarships awarded by their major department and/or the San Diego State University Scholarship Committee. Students apply on their own initiative for the University Scholarship Program. Some scholarships listed require special applications and/or have a specific selection process. Competition is based on outstanding academic achievement, campus and extracurricular activities, employment, and an essay. Undergraduates must have a 3.50 overall GPA or a 3.70 in the last 30 units of university work. Graduate and postbaccalaureate students must have a 3.50 overall GPA for work completed after the bachelor's degree or, in the absence of completed postbaccalaureate units, a 3.50 overall undergraduate GPA or a 3.70 in the last 30 units of university work. High school seniors must have an unweighted 3.50 cumulative GPA (excluding physical education and military science) for all work completed in the first seven semesters. Applications for the SDSU scholarship program are available in the Scholarship Office, from all department secretaries, and in San Diego County high school and community college counseling offices. You may also write or call the SDSU Scholarship Office, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-7438; telephone (619) 594-6180. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and note if you are currently a college or high school student. Long distance return calls are no longer budgeted. Applications are available each year during one application period, November through early February. The SDSU scholarship application must be filed or postmarked not later than the established early February deadline. Students need to submit only one application for the SDSU scholarship program. Individual results will be mailed to all applicants during June for the following academic year. The dollar amount per scholarship is subject to change based on registration costs and investments by the SDSU Foundation. There is no limit to the number of scholarships for which a student may be considered. Note: Freshman Scholar Awards are only available to entering freshman who meet the University, merit-based eligibility requirements. Several $8,000 awards ($1,000 per semester) are designed to partially cover the cost of registration fees for four years of undergraduate studies providing the recipient maintains a minimum 3.5 grade point average. In addition to SDSU scholarships, the Marshall, Fulbright, Rhodes, and Rotary scholarships are prestigious international scholarships that are given annually to students pursuing educational goals outside the United States. Eligibility standards for these scholarships are closely related to those established for the SDSU scholarship program, but application forms and deadlines are separate from the program. Students may seek advisement regarding application at the SDSU Scholarship Office in late spring or September. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS Africana Studies Department African American Faculty/Staff Napoleon A. Jones, Jr. Kimbrough Memorial Dewey and Jessie E. Mosby Danny L. Scarborough Memorial Shirley Wade Thomas Memorial Anthropology Department Norton Allen Classics and Humanities Department Martha Biehl Memorial Robert and Paula Cottam Memorial in Classics Friends of Classics Charter Viola Granstaff Memorial Economics Department CPE, Alumni CPE, Chadwick CPE, Freeman CPE, Weiss Economics Intern Program English and Comparative Literature Department Creative Writing Ruth G. Keen Memorial Mindy Gates O'Mary Memorial Kenneth and Dorothy Stott Memorial Geography Department William Finch Memorial Ted H. Greenwood Award Physical Geography Lauren C. Post Memorial History Department Andrew Appleby Undergraduate Memorial Andrew Appleby Graduate Memorial Katherine Ragen Memorial Lionel Ridout Memorial Richard Ruetten Memorial Kenneth and Dorothy Stott Memorial Jon Sutherland Memorial Japanese Language Program Japan Travel Kyocera Tohmatsu Awoki/Touche Ross Political Science Department O'Gara, Matthew Religious Studies Department James E. Sparks Memorial Sociology Department Maxine Johnson Memorial Sociology Department Fund Spanish Department Clifford H. Baker Memorial Raymond D. Weeter Women's Studies Department Betty Nesvold Andrea O'Donnell Memorial Women's Studies Graduate Fellowship College of Arts and Letters Miscellaneous Scholarships Slim Solheid Memorial COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION School of Accountancy Accountants Associates Considine and Considine Elias J. Katzen Memorial Bernard Nydam Memorial Vern Odmark Memorial Toole Family Price Waterhouse Financial Services John Burnham & Sons Robert F. and Fredricka B. Driver/Robert F. Driver Company Ed Fletcher Foundation Irving Katz Memorial Professional Insurance Agents San Diego Mortgage Bankers Information and Decision Systems Department Georgia Amsden Memorial Chevron/Information Systems Alvin Morrison Memorial Nuclear Information and Records Management Association, Inc. Management Department David W. Belcher Memorial Frances Torbert Memorial Marketing Department American Production and Inventory Control Society Connie Fotinos Memorial Ellen Sue Gerber Memorial W.A.F.C. Real Estate John Cotton Memorial Robert C. Hird Memorial San Diego Mortgage Bankers Harry Summers College of Business Administration Miscellaneous Scholarships Business Department Minority College of Business General Robert Hess Memorial Robert C. Hird J. M. Long Foundation Pacific Telesis-MBA Southeast Asian Alliance Bill Thurman, North Island Federal Credit Union Union Bank of California Christina Lynn Velasco Memorial Monica Williams Memorial COLLEGE OF EDUCATION African American Beginning Teachers Support Master's Degree Aileen James Birch Michaelanthony Brown-Cheatham Memorial Buster Memorial Patricia Calhoun Memorial California Retired Teachers Assoc. Ben Ziri Caravan Clara de Escudero Memorial Delta Kappa Gamma, Nu Chapter Alfred Einstein Living Trust/Vera Einstein Memorial Dr. Peggy Hawley Houck Memorial Judy and Donald James Memorial Russell James Memorial Antonia Johnson Memorial Cynthia Jones Kappa Beta Nu LaPray/Schmock Raymond Letsinger Memorial Catherine Y. Lodge Memorial Richard Servey Memorial Dr. Robert D. Smith, Jr. John Paul Stone Memorial Leslee Teincuff Memorial Timothy Telford Memorial Upward Bound Alumni/Robert E. McCabe Gail White Memorial COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Civil and Environmental Engineering Department American Concrete Company Association of California Water Agencies Association of State Dam Safety Officials Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Consulting Engineers/Land Surveyors E. F. Cook Associates Kimley-Horn Associates, Inc. George McBain Dennis McFadden Memorial Nasland Engineering Byrl Phelps/San Diego Engineers Club Pountney and Associates, Inc. Rick Engineering San Diego County Rock Producers Structural Engineers Josephson Werdowitz and Associates Stuart Wong Woodward-Clyde Consultants Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Electrical Engineering Department Electrical Manufacturing and Coil Winding Associates Mechanical Engineering Department ASHRAE D. Preston Lowrey III Memorial McAdams Family College of Engineering Miscellaneous Scholarships Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Ball Corporation Engineering Faculty David G. Fleet S.L. Frankel Eric Gaipa Memorial General Dynamics Hughes (NAMS) Lockheed Leadership Louise McNally NACME National Science Foundation S. Falck Nielsen Family Cheng-Mo Sun Memorial Donald Grey Wilson COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Communicative Disorders Department Dorothy Baronofsky Memorial Communicative Disorders Department Sam Foshee Memorial Gamma Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Sorority Nella Feldman Gross Memorial Barry W. Jones Memorial Kenneth R. Mangan Paul Pfaff Memorial Kala Singh Memorial Community Health Education Lori D. Lemas Memorial School of Nursing Alvarado Health Foundation Dawn M. Benson Lorraine Sears Bryant Memorial Emeritus Faculty Nursing Katherine R. Foley Memorial Dorothea Lambert Memorial Rueben Marks Memorial Christopher Murray Memorial Lottie E. Olberg Memorial Petra Steinhauser Memorial Frances Shimp Tidwell Memorial Graduate School of Public Health Chanda Beasley Memorial Monge/Weill Department of Public Health School of Social Work Mabel Naylor Danalis Memorial Jaime Brenner Geller Memorial Mark Todd Sandways Memorial Maria Sardinas School of Social Work Fund Leon Williams Ernest Witte Memorial College of Health and Human Services Miscellaneous Scholarships Center on Aging Department of Health and Human Services John Hebbel COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES AND FINE ARTS Aerospace Studies Lorin M. Kemp Memorial ROTC School of Art, Design and Art History Art Department Fund Patricia Clapp Memorial Margaret Dowd Memorial Frances Ellsworth Memorial Darryl Groover Memorial Isabel Kraft Memorial Paul Lingren Memorial John J. Rogers Virginia Thorsen Memorial Ellamarie Woolley Art Students Assistance Fund Child and Family Development Department Mary Quam Hawkins Memorial Barbara Rosenblatt Memorial Georgia Tait Stooke Memorial School of Communication Clayton Brace Memorial James Copley Foundation Forensics Scholarship Steve Harwood Memorial Harold Keen Memorial KFMB Jack Mills Memorial Jane Nelson Memorial Gracia Ogden Memorial Christopher Packala Memorial Val Ryser Memorial Percie Belle Senn Memorial Kevin Simmons Memorial Reggie Smith Memorial Arthur C. and Mildred Wimer Drama Department Joseph J. Bellinghiere Memorial Jeweldean Brodie Memorial Greg C. Crowder Drama Department Patron's William B. Hektner Sybil E. Jones Memorial Gordon Lusk Memorial Mack Owen Memorial Marion Ross Hunton Sellman Memorial Henry Stanton Memorial Exercise and Nutritional Sciences Department Adult Fitness Program William Ellis Memorial Mary Quam Hawkins Memorial Reet Howell Memorial Margaret "Robin" Murphy Memorial Miriam Paine Memorial Physical Education Fund Barbara Rosenblatt Memorial William Schutte Memorial School of Music and Dance Nadine Bolles Memorial Jean Taylor Brown Memorial Dante M. Corsi Memorial Marguerite Ellicott Memorial Joseph J. Fisch Elsie Hiland Fox Memorial Johanna Fox Memorial M.H. Golden Lois Greeno Memorial Charles A. Hoyt Memorial Joseph E. Johnson Kiwanis Foundation Lieber-Flower Jan Lowenbach, Musicology Alvin Morrison Memorial Music Department Fund Bessie S. Purdy Memorial William Resnick Lucia Robertson Memorial Edith Savage Memorial SDSU Opera Theatre Sigma Alpha Iota SPEBQSA Christine Springston Memorial Paul C. Stauffer Memorial University Band George Willis Marvin Yerkey Memorial School of Public Administration and Urban Studies Cotton/Blend/Associates, Inc. John Fowler Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department Bonnie Jean Gore Memorial Recreation Faculty College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts Miscellaneous Scholarships Lauren Jones Memorial Alicia Marquez Memorial College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts COLLEGE OF SCIENCES Astronomy Department Awona Harrington Memorial William F. Lucas Memorial Clifford and Ruth Kinnell Smith Memorial Biology Department Jordan Covin Memorial Crouch Scholarship for Avian Behavior Harold and June Grant Memorial Hardman Foundation Mabel Myers Memorial Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club Systematics and Evolutionary Biology Chemistry Department Catherine L. Hardy Neil Harrington Memorial Geological Sciences Department AMOCO Foundation R.C. Baker Baylor Brooks Chevron/Geology Rollin and Carolyn Eckis Geology Alumni Fund Geology Fund Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department BMC Software, Inc. Alba G. Thompson Memorial Physics Department Francis M. Millican Memorial Optics-Physics Physics Summer Research Skolil Fund Psychology Department Dorothe Frick Memorial Dr. Edward Geldreich Memorial Polly R. Plesset Social Psychology Doris Townsend Memorial College of Sciences Miscellaneous Scholarships Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Frank Alverson Memorial BMC Software, Inc. David G. Fleet Harry E. Hamber Memorial Robert Harwood Memorial Hearst Foundation Phillip and Mary Kantor Memorial Louise McNally Paul G. Peninger Memorial San Diego Audubon Society William Trowbridge Memorial General Scholarships In addition to the University Scholarship Committee Awards and the College, Department and School Scholarships, there are a number of general scholarships available. Recipients for some of these scholarships are chosen by the University Scholarship Committee; recipients for others are chosen by the donors on the basis of nominees sent to them by the University Scholarship Committee. Advocates for Women in Academia Associated Students Aztec Shops Donald Basile Memorial Mary Earnest Bean Memorial Brian Billotte Memorial Thomas C. Bishop Memorial Maryl Brooksher Memorial William Calkins Memorial Murray Callan Memorial Enrique Camarena Memorial Campbell/Cartier Memorial Cesar Chávez Memorial Book Scholarship Thomas Cortez Dean's Endowment Tony Esse Memorial Eric Etebari Extended Studies General Farmers Insurance Martha Farnum Memorial Clyde and Myrtle Fields Family Memorial Fox Foundation Johanna M. Fox Memorial General Fund General Hispanic Good Sport Howie Arthur C. Harris Memorial Rear Admiral Virgil L. Hill Kathleen Horn Memorial IFC Greek Imperial Valley Campus International Students John Jester Memorial Richard Kamenash Memorial Wilbur S. Kelley Memorial Kiwanis Foundation William and Edna LaSalle Memorial Lipinsky Family George Macphee Memorial May S. Marcy Memorial Maxey Family Jennifer and Robert E. McCabe Memorial Sally McMahon/Doves Endowment Arthur Tennes Moe Memorial Magdalena Mora Memorial Mortar Board Alumnae of San Diego National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Naval Science/ROTC Mohamed Niaz Family O.A.S.I.S. James O'Hara II Memorial Palz/Nicholson Emma Pellettiri Memorial Jerry Pennington Phi Alpha Alpha Sorority Phi Beta Delta Carolin Pittman Memorial Foster S. Post Memorial President's Scholarship John F. Reeves Memorial Residence Hall Association Rotary International District #5340 Bill Ruzich Memorial San Diego Insurance Adjusters San Diego State University Memorial San Diego State University Retirement Association San Diego State University Women's Association Etta Schweider Memorial Robert Patterson Shields Memorial Dr. Jane Kirby Smith Mortar Board Scholarship Arthur and Norma Spencer Memorial David Springer Memorial Sigma Phi Epsilon Gary R. Stephany Frank G. Tait Memorial Terry Lynn Thompson Memorial Transportation Club of San Diego Wilmia Tyler Trott Memorial Undergraduate Deans Wal-Mart Foundation D.B. Williams Memorial Peggy Wolter Memorial John Yarborough Memorial Young Black Scholar Fund Mr. and Mrs. John Zweck Memorial Top of Page webmaster@libweb.sdsu.edu Copyright © 1997, San Diego State University. All rights reserved.