Merit Scholarships for Undergraduate Students on Main Campus

All applicants are automatically considered for merit based scholarship when applying. Merit based scholarship varies depending on the students high school performance. Awards range from $15,000 - $33,000 per academic year.

The Merit based scholarship is guaranteed for your first year and renewable each year provided you remain a full-time undergraduate student while maintaining the appropriate minimum cumulative GPA (CGPA) required by the scholarship. It is renewable for up to a maximum of ten semesters and applied only to tuition.

The Transfer Scholar Award is intended for full-time students who are transferring from another college or university and have completed 12 credit hours at their transferring institution and have a minimum GPA of 3.0. The scholarship awards vary depending on the student's GPA but range from $15,000 - $33,000.

If a transferring student demonstrates academic success but has less than 12 credit hours completed, the student will be evaluated for a scholarship based on the First-Year academic scholarships.

The Transfer Scholar Award is renewable each year provided you remain a full-time undergraduate student while maintaining the appropriate minimum cumulative GPA (CGPA) required by the scholarship.

A student who has been inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society may be considered for an additional $2,000 scholarship. This award is in addition to being considered for the Transfer Scholar Award.

The PTK Scholarship is renewable each year provided you remain a full-time undergraduate student while maintaining satisfactory progress towards a bachelor's degree and a B (3.0) cumulative grade point average.

Experience what it means to be a Charger! Visit the University of New Haven and you may qualify for an annual $1,000 Campus Visit Grant. This award recognizes students who take the next step in exploring their future by attending an eligible admissions-hosted campus event.

Eligibility
To qualify for the Campus Visit Grant, students must:

1. Attend an official admissions-hosted event prior to May 1, 2027 that is coordinated and recorded by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Eligible events include Information Sessions and Campus Tours, Open Houses, and Accepted Student Days.
2. Apply as a first-time, degree-seeking undergraduate student.
3. Be admitted and enroll as a first-time, full-time undergraduate student at the University of New Haven.

The Campus Visit Grant is not available to transfer students or students enrolled in online programs. The grant cannot be combined with academic, programmatic, or athletic full-tuition offers.

Renewal
The Campus Visit Grant is renewable annually for up to four consecutive years (eight semesters) of undergraduate enrollment.

To maintain eligibility, students must:

• Remain enrolled full-time.
• Maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), as defined by University financial aid policies.
• Comply with all applicable University financial aid requirements.

Excluded Events
The following activities do not qualify for the Campus Visit Grant:

• Virtual visits or virtual information sessions
• One-on-one virtual meetings or interviews
• Summer Youth Academies
• Group visits coordinated by high schools, other institutions, or external organizations
• Athletic visits not coordinated through the Office of Admissions
• Visits hosted solely by academic departments, athletics, or other campus offices that are not officially registered through Admissions

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Interested students must express interest in the scholarship by February 1st of their senior year in high school by using one of the methods listed below. Eligible candidates must have completed their application and have been admitted by February 1 of their senior year in high school.

To express interest in the Marching Band Scholarship you may either:

• Fill out this Marching Band interest form
• Email Jason DeGroff, director of bands and Professor of Practice in music, at JDegroff@newhaven.edu

In order to maintain the Marching Band Scholarship, recipients must be full-time undergraduate students who are active members of the University of New Haven Chargers Marching Band. Active is defined as fully participating throughout the fall and spring terms in practices and performances set by the program director. Scholars will be enrolled in the Marching Band Course in the fall term and Concert Band, Jazz Band, and/or Winterguard during the Spring term based on the Director of Band’s assignments. This scholarship is renewable each year and up to four years provided the student remains a full-time, degree seeking student in good standing with the University. The award is only applied to on-ground main campus undergraduate tuition. Currently enrolled students are not eligible for this award.

The following schools or organizations have established agreements with the University of New Haven that include special scholarship opportunities for admitted, first-time students to attend the University:

• Ansonia High School (Ansonia, CT)
• Engineering & Science University Magnet School (West Haven, CT)
• Higher Heights YEP (New Haven, CT)
• Horizons at Greens Farms Academy (Westport, CT)
• John S. Burke Catholic High School (Goshen, NY)
• Kolbe Cathedral High School (Bridgeport, CT)
• New Haven Promise (New Haven, CT)
• Notre Dame High School (West Haven, CT)
• Sacred Heart Academy (Hamden, CT)
• Waterbury Promise (Waterbury, CT)
• West Haven High School (West Haven, CT)

These scholarships are awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Admission prior to the start of a student's first year, and are not able to be awarded to students that do not receive them for their first year. These college access scholarships cannot be combined with the traditional merit scholarships listed above. For more information on our college access scholarships, please email admissions@newhaven.edu.

College Access Programs