Featured byIllinois State University
Overview
Scholarship type
Merit and need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Value unknown
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
Family and Consumer Sciences offers FCS Recruitment and Retention Scholarship to current students and students entering the department as freshmen or transfer students. The application serves for all departmental awards and only one application per student is needed to apply for all departmental scholarships.
Benefits
The benefits and monetary value of the scholarship are unknown.
Eligibility
- Accepted for enrollment at Illinois State University.
- An incoming freshman majoring in one of the programs in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Illinois State University with preference given to a Teacher Education major. This scholarship is renewable for a maximum of an additional three years as long as the student continues to meet the required qualifications.
- Demonstrated academic achievement as evidenced by a comparable cumulative high school GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for incoming freshmen. This cumulative GPA must be maintained all of the subsequent years to continue to qualify for renewal of this scholarship for a maximum of three additional years.
- Demonstrated financial need.
- Demonstrated high school involvement in leadership activities, community service, and/or achieved awards and honors.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Family & Consumer Science
Locations
United States
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
01 Apr 2026
Recipients must be entering as a full-time freshman student with a declared major in Family and Consumer Sciences. Applications are open November 1 and will close April 15.
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