National scholarships dates/deadlines for continuing OSU students

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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Returning Oklahoma State University students who are looking for help to pay for their education can apply now for scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Deadlines and key dates for prominent national scholarships are as follows:

September:

The Gates Cambridge Scholarship: Applications open in September, deadline is Oct. 13. Applicants notified in December with scholars selected in January.

The Goldwater Scholarship: Requires institutional nomination, which is available until Oct. 25. Scholars are selected in March.

October:

The Truman Scholarship: Requires institutional nomination, which is available until Oct. 25. Deadline is Feb. 2 Scholars are selected in April. 

The Udall Scholarship: Requires institutional nomination, which is available until Oct. 25. Deadline is early 2022. Scholars are selected in May.

The Knight-Hennessy Scholarship: Applications are open now and due on Oct. 6. No institutional endorsement required.

For next year:

It is never too early to start thinking ahead about scholarships. These prestigious scholarship applications are due summer of 2022. All of these require institutional nomination.

The Marshall Scholarship:  Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to fifty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.

The Mitchell Scholarship: The Mitchell Scholarship is designed to introduce and connect future American leaders to the island of Ireland, while recognizing and fostering academic excellence, leadership, and a commitment to public service.

The Rhodes Scholarship: The Rhodes Trust is an educational charity which supports exceptional students from around the world to study at the University of Oxford.

For more information, contact the Office of Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research at schdev@okstate.edu or visit their website at https://universitycollege.okstate.edu/scholars/. For college-specific scholarships, ask your advisors or look for an updated list later this semester.