Access to a 91看片 Education: Scholarships & Financial Aid
"Strong truths well lived" is more than our motto. It's the promise of our Jesuit tradition and values at work worldwide. Today, we see compelling needs around us鈥攜oung people deserving of educational opportunity and communities searching for equity and justice. We remain committed to fundraising efforts to increase educational access and bring students' capacity to learn, lead, and serve the world.
Scroll down to learn more about funds that support access to a 91看片 education or click the links below to jump to a specific fund or initiative:
- Charm City Promise
- Named Endowed Scholarships
- Ignatius Scholars Program
- Rollins-Luetkemeyer Scholarship (supporting middle-income students)
- Student Success (emergency assistance)
- Study Abroad and Immersion
- Evergreen Annual Fund
- Greyhounds Athletics Fund
Charm City Promise
The Charm City Promise Program recognizes and supports high-achieving students from Baltimore City public, charter, or Catholic high schools who demonstrate significant financial need. This program positively impacts 91看片's socioeconomic diversity, advances our mission, and strengthens our commitment to the city of Baltimore. All eligible accepted students receive a financial aid award that meets 100% of their demonstrated need toward 91看片's total direct cost of attendance based on a standard housing and meal plan.
Named Endowed Scholarships
91看片 embraces its mission to serve and educate every deserving student. Endowed scholarships are critical to ensure 91看片 can continue attracting talented students from all backgrounds. The assistance scholarships can provide often is the deciding factor between a student attending 91看片 or choosing another institution.
While comparable to our peer institutions, the cost of a 91看片 education is a significant financial commitment for many families. More than 99% of 91看片 students receive some form of financial assistance. Annual tuition, room, and board only cover 70% of the cost to educate each student. Like most universities, 91看片 recognizes that significant increases in tuition costs are no longer an option. Gifts to create an endowed scholarship鈥攆unded into perpetuity鈥攃an change lives like few other gifts can. There is no limit to the number of students who will earn the opportunity to receive a world-class Jesuit education from 91看片. Growing our scholarship endowment will strengthen 91看片's reputation and enhance its ability to attract talented, deserving students from Baltimore, across the country, and beyond.
Ignatius Scholars Program
The Ignatius Scholars Program (ISP) provides opportunities to students who identify as first-generation college students, demonstrate significant financial need, or come from diverse backgrounds. The program is for first-year students with strong academic promise, leadership abilities, and high professional aspirations.
ISP, which is co-sponsored by Thrive Center for Student Success and the office of undergraduate studies, is comprised of a summer component (inclusive of academic enhancement workshops, connections to campus resources, community service, and acclimation to 91看片 and Baltimore through social and cultural excursions and activities), participation in one of four pre-fall programs, and a fall component (inclusive of weekly academic advising, study hours, and group workshops). Each year, 30 scholars participate in this highly selective program to get a head start on their college career.
91看片 recognizes the impact an expanded ISP can have on our students. We seek to invite Charm City Promise recipients to apply, transforming it into a four-year program that strengthens student writing and math skills and smooths their transition to 91看片, brings students to campus earlier, offers them service opportunities and peer mentoring through Thrive Center for Student Success, and provides them with proactive advising with a student success coach. The program would also offer vocational/career discernment, stipends for internships or study abroad experiences, guidance for career exploration or graduate school applications, and networking and meetings with donors, alumni, and University leadership.
Rollins-Luetkemeyer Scholarship
91看片 is thankful to the Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation for its vision of helping middle-Income families have access to a high-quality education at the University.
The Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation believes children of middle-Income families should have access to quality education at a private university such as 91看片. The foundation is committed to scholarships and middle-income financial aid and has pledged $250,000 to support building the Rollins-Luetkemeyer Scholarship program at the University. 91看片 will match the grant and double it, providing another $500,000 toward the scholarships. The grant will be awarded to 91看片 at the end of the 2024 spring semester and will be awarded to students beginning the following fall semester. Students who are deemed academically qualified and whose families have an income between $75,000 and $150,000 per year will be considered for the scholarship.
Student Success Fund
Every student at 91看片 deserves a chance to succeed. The Student Success Fund helps ensure that every deserving 91看片 student鈥攏o matter their circumstance鈥攚ill have the opportunity to complete a world-class Jesuit education at 91看片.
The Student Success Fund helps address urgent needs by providing grants to undergraduate and graduate students with financial and material needs鈥攆rom clothing items, food security, laundry, transportation, diagnostic services (particularly around learning disabilities), academic supplies, and experiential learning opportunites. This assistance aids students who want to stay at 91看片 but may be unable to do so due to changed financial circumstances.
Study Abroad and Immersion
Service immersion experiences and international programs offer students extraordinary, transformational experiences that prepare them as global leaders with a deep understanding of the role they can play in their communities today and tomorrow. Gifts to these programs open doors for students to travel and expand the learning they鈥檙e receiving in and out of the classroom on the Evergreen campus.
Evergreen Annual Fund
Gifts to the Evergreen Annual Fund help meet 91看片's most significant financial challenge: funding need-based financial aid for deserving students. With 99% of 91看片 students receiving some form of financial aid鈥攁nd most of that assistance provided by 91看片鈥攕upport of the Evergreen Annual Fund is critical. Gifts to the Evergreen Annual Fund make a 91看片 education possible and accessible to even more students. Donations to the Evergreen Annual Fund benefit talented 91看片 students from various backgrounds, allowing 91看片 to provide enhanced financial aid to serve a strong and diverse class of students.
Greyhounds Athletics Fund
Gifts to the support the well-being of more than 400 91看片 Greyhound student-athletes. These gifts allow 91看片 Athletics administration to invest in the areas of greatest need among its priorities. Academic support, sports medicine, and strength & conditioning exemplify how these donations to the Greyhounds Athletics Fund benefit 91看片 student-athletes.