Undergraduate Scholarships
Undergraduate Scholarships
Initial offers may change as updated transcripts are submitted to the Office of Admissions.
Scholarship offers are emailed monthly during the months of May, June, and July.
Students transferring from any accredited community college as their last institution attended are eligible.
If your last institution attended was a community college, regardless of previous attendance at other institutions, you will be evaluated as a community college transfer student and cannot be considered for any freshman or university transfer scholarships.
View all deadlines here.
Automatic consideration upon admission. Check your USM email address and the GO System to accept any available offers. Scholarships are awarded a monthly basis.
Automatic consideration upon admission. Check your USM email address and the GO System to accept any available offers. Scholarships are awarded on a monthly basis.
* Can only be combined with the Transfer Eagle Scout/Gold Award Scholarship.
Students must be attending Southern Miss within one year of their last enrollment term from their most recent institution in order to be eligible for transfer designation-based scholarships.
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship, Phi Theta Kappa Officer Scholarship, and Phi Theta Kappa All-Academic First State/National Team cannot be combined with the Community College Transfer Academic Scholarship. If you are a Phi Theta Kappa Member, your initial Community College Transfer Academic Scholarship offer will be automatically upgraded on your behalf. Applications must be submitted in the GO System before the stated deadlines with proper documentation to be considered.
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship | 2 Years | Total Amount $12,000 | $6,000 annual/$3,000 per semester |
Phi Theta Kappa Officer Scholarship | 2 Years | Total Amount $2,000 | $1,000 annual/$500 per semester |
Phi Theta Kappa All-Academic First State/National Team | 2 Years | Total Amount $2,000 | $1,000 annual/$500 per semester |
External Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) scholarships can be located at https://www.ptk.org/. You can also use this link to log into your PTK account to download your official certificate to upload for your USM applications.