Academic Scholarships
TCU rewards academic achievement. The following list of awards is designed to recognize entering students who have excelled academically. First-year scholarships are offered on a continuing basis until funds are exhausted. Transfer student applicants must be admitted by April 15 for the fall semester and November 1 for the spring semester. These awards are based solely on academic performance without regard to the family's financial condition as evidenced by the FAFSA.
First-year Awards
Specific renewal requirements common to all academic awards are:
- Successful completion of 24 semester hours of "letter-grade" TCU coursework each academic year (fall and spring). Note: Summer and Wintersession courses do not satisfy the requirement. Students who begin TCU in the spring term will need to successfully complete 12 semester hours of "letter-grade" TCU coursework in the spring term.
- A TCU cumulative GPA of 3.0 is required at the conclusion of the first year. Thereafter, a 3.25 TCU cumulative GPA is required at the conclusion of each spring semester.
- “F” grade, “W” or “Q,” “I,” “AU,” Advanced Placement (AP), College Level Examination Program (CLEP) and College Board Achievement Tests in Foreign Languages (ACH) do not count toward satisfying requirements.
- Duration of first-year awards is eight semesters or 120 TCU semester hours, whichever occurs first.
John V. Roach Family Endowment
Provides full housing, food and books for the top four students in the class who have been offered full tuition from another academic scholarship.
Chancellor's Scholarship
Amount: Full tuition for up to 18 hours per semester for up to eight undergraduate semesters. Total value in excess of $228,520.
Trustee Scholarship
Combines with other academic awards to provide a full scholarship covering housing, food and books.
Deans Scholarship
Amount: $25,000 per year for up to eight undergraduate semesters. Total value up to $100,000.
Faculty Scholarship
Amount: $22,000 per year for up to eight undergraduate semesters. Total value up to $88,000.
TCU Scholarship
Amount: $18,000 per year for up to eight undergraduate semesters. Total value up to $72,000.
Founders Scholarship
Amount: $12,000 per year for up to eight undergraduate semesters. Total value up to $48,000.
National Merit, National Achievement and National Hispanic Scholarships
Amount: $2,000 per year for up to eight undergraduate semesters. Total value up to $8,000.
Scholars must be designated as finalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (National Merit or National Achievement) or the College Board (National Hispanic) and, for National Merit, officially designate TCU as their first choice. This scholarship may be awarded in addition to another TCU scholarship if the total amount of institutional merit scholarship does not exceed the cost of tuition at TCU.
TCU Academic Achievement Award
This award is for current TCU students who were at the top of their class at the end of the first-year and were not awarded an academic scholarship upon entering the University.