The Scholarship Basis of Santa Barbara will start accepting scholarship purposes for the 2023-2024 educational 12 months right now.
Eligibility necessities and software directions can be found at www.sbscholarship.org.
The Scholarship Basis reviewed 2,749 purposes throughout its not too long ago concluded scholarship awards cycle. In Might, the group awarded greater than $7.7 million in scholarships to 2,146 Santa Barbara County college students.
Scholarship awards for undergraduates at four-year faculties averaged $3,132; graduate pupil awards (excluding these for medical faculty) averaged $5,191.
The Scholarship Basis additionally helps college students pursuing vocational coaching. Eligible college students can obtain as much as 5 years of undergraduate funding and 4 years of medical/graduate-level funding.
The first standards for award choice are monetary want, educational achievement and motivation. The deadline to use for monetary help from the Scholarship Basis is Jan. 15.
“Annually, we encourage college students to start the appliance as quickly as potential, as in lots of circumstances they may have questions or want help. Our program advisers are a superb useful resource for candidates all through the county,” mentioned Len Smolburd, basis chief applications officer. Celebrating its sixtieth anniversary this 12 months, the Scholarship Basis of Santa Barbara is the nation’s largest community-based supplier of school scholarships, having cumulatively awarded greater than $140 million to some 60,000 county college students since its founding in 1962. The Scholarship Basis additionally supplies free monetary help advising providers.
For added info, go to www.sbscholarship.org.
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