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Qualified students may apply for one or more of our 600 scholarships, awards, and prizes.

Scholarships and Awards

Spring 2020 Notice

Per the City University of New York, the Office of Scholarships is closed. Although we will not be seeing students at the office, the entire staff are available via e-mail Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Please send us an e-mail if you have any questions.

Brooklyn College offers more than 600 scholarships, awards, and prizes each year to undergraduate and graduate students. Well over $1 million is available to support the education of qualified students.

Online Application

If you wish to apply for undergraduate scholarships and awards, fill out the online application and file a FAFSA by February 13, 2021.

Entering graduate students are automatically considered based on the admissions application. Continuing graduate students are considered by their departments based on financial need and academic record. Students are encouraged to complete a FAFSA.

Scholarships and Awards Link

CUNY Peer Leaders Application 2020-2021

Deadline: Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The new CUNY Peer Leaders program is a joint program that combines elements of the CUNY Humanities Alliance LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars program and the Futures Initiative Undergraduate Leadership and Democracy Fellows Program. The program is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The new CUNY Peer Leaders program welcomes 25-30 undergraduate students from two and four year CUNY colleges with opportunities to develop a humanities themed project and a portfolio of public writing pieces on the program blog, in addition to transferable skills such as collaboration, identifying needs and resources, learning with and from others, building trust, while striving toward shared goals. These accomplishments all of which will prepare them for success as students during their time at CUNY and beyond.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR THE CUNY PEER LEADERS PROGRAM

The Brooklyn College Alumni Association Student Award

This award is to full-time graduate students with a GPA of at least 3.00 and full-time undergraduate students with a GPA of at least 2.50 who have demonstrated a commitment to serving their fellow students and/or have made a creative contribution to the Brooklyn College community.

Deadline:February 13, 2020.

External Scholarships

There is information about an extensive array of external scholarships on the Internet. Students may search for scholarships online by using such keywords as graduate scholarships, fellowships, or financial aid. Some sites allow registration that will report scholarships fitting a student's profile. Searching the Internet for scholarships is free; check with the Office of Scholarships before contacting any external scholarship agency that is requesting a fee for its services.

In addition to the Internet, external scholarships may be located through places of employment, religious organizations, community, and civic organizations, and libraries.

Donors of external scholarships should be instructed to send checks to the Office of Scholarships. Checks should include the name of the scholarship, the term(s) for which the award is made, the student's complete legal name and student identification number. If the donor does not provide instructions otherwise, the amount of the scholarship will be divided and applied to the student's account equally for the fall and spring semesters.