Maryland College Scholarships

The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) administers several need and merit based scholarships and grants. Many of them have no vocational requirement and some of them are awarded based on the student's particular area of study. Some are service obligation awards in that the recipient must promise to work in the same field as the major for which the grant or scholarship was awarded.

State Agency Scholarships

Legislative Scholarships

• Delegate Scholarship
  This scholarship is for current high school seniors and full-time or part-time, degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students. Students attending a private career school may also apply.
• Senatorial Scholarship
  This scholarship is for current high school seniors and full-time and part-time, degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students. Students attending a private career school may also apply.

State-based Merit Scholarships

• Distinquished Scholar Awardp
  This scholarship is best and brightest high school students. Applicant must have a minimum, cumulative, unweighted GPA of 3.7 on a 4.0 scale in academic subjects taken during their first five semesters of high school. Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship and National Achievement Scholarship programs will automatically receive the award if they attend a Maryland institution. The award is $3,000 each year and is very competitive.
• Distinquished Scholar Community College Transer Program.
  This scholarship is for Maryland residents who have completed 60 credit hours at a Maryland community college and are transferring to a Maryland 4-year institution of higher education.

Non-profit Organizations

• Carville M. Akehurst Memorial Scholarship - was established in 2002 by the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show, Inc. (MANTS). This scholarship serves to memorialize Mr. Akehurst who served the horticultural industry as one of the founders of MANTS. (More Information).

Public and Private Companies

Colleges and Universities

Other Resources