Transfer Scholarships

Scholarships are awarded based upon application for admission. Scholarship criteria are subject to change. Scholarships are evaluated each June, at which time criteria and values are confirmed for students who will begin applying in August.

Transfer Merit Scholarship 
This merit scholarship is designated for outstanding Indiana students transferring to the University or students from a reciprocity county in Kentucky, students transferring from the Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (IECC) system or Southeastern Illinois College (SIC) or students who qualify for the Continue the Tradition Award.

Value: $1,500 per academic year

Number available: Varies. Offers may be limited based on availability of funding. Qualified applicants automatically receive the Transfer Merit Scholarship based upon their admission to USI.  For this reason, students are encouraged to apply as soon as you as possible upon identifying the University of Southern Indiana as a school of choice.

Selection criteria: Eligible students must have a minimum of 24 transferable credit hours with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0. 

Out-of-State Transfer Top Scholar Award 
This scholarship is designated for outstanding transfer students residing outside the state of Indiana who initially matriculate to USI in fall 2021 and beyond.  The University pays the difference between non-resident and resident tuition.  

Offers may be limited based on availability of funding. For this reason, students are encouraged to apply early.

To be eligible, non-resident transfer students must:

• Complete at least 24 transferable credit hours
• Have a cumulative transfer grade point average of 3.25 or higher.

Out-of-State Transfer Grant
This scholarship is designated for strong transfer students residing outside the state of Indiana who initially matriculate to USI in fall 2021 and beyond.

The grant provides a tuition discount of $9,000 for out-of-state students. Offers may be limited based on availability of funding. For this reason, students are encouraged to apply early.

To be eligible, non-resident transfer students must:

• Complete at least 24 transferable credit hours
• Have a cumulative transfer grade point average between 2.75 to 3.24.

Continue the Tradition Award
Provides tuition waiver which will net out-of-state tuition down to in-state tuition rates.  Non-Indiana residents who are admissible to USI and have a parent (biological or adopted) or grandparent that has earned a Bachelor’s, Masters or Doctorate degree from USI are eligible for this waiver.

Foundation Scholarships
Admitted students can take advantage of AwardSpring, a unified scholarship application that faculty and staff utilize to award Foundation scholarships. This one application serves as the application to all Foundation scholarships for which a student is eligible. Students can click on the AwardSpring icon throught MyUSI and begin completing a single application. The software will automatically match potential recipients to scholarships based on the information provided on the application. The AwardSpring application deadline is January 30, 2022.