Scholarship Opportunities

Find out how scholarships can help cover your undergraduate education costs.

• Scholarships are considered gift aid: money you don't have to repay.
• Scholarships are awarded for either academic merit, merit and additional criteria such as major of interest, leadership, or financial need.
• If you receive scholarship(s), they may replace your other financial awards in the following order:
  • Work-study
  • Perkins Loan/University Loan
  • Parent PLUS Loan
  • Direct Subsidized/Unsubsidized Loan
  • Grants
• Scholarships that replace work-study reduce the number of hours you need to work, and those that replace loans reduce your future loan debt.
• Check out Financial Aid for scholarship opportunities. Trition Link provides a list of scholarships open to continuing students.
• Learn how scholarship money and other financial aid gets to you.
• Read tips on receiving scholarship funds from non-UCSD organizations.
• Access scholarship Web sites, search tools, and other resources.
• Find financial aid and scholarship tax information.

Contact Financial Aid's Scholarship Office, (858) 534-1067.