All institutional grants and scholarship awards require the following:
Institutional grant awards require the following:
- A valid FAFSA.
- A complete SPU financial aid file (all documents and requirements submitted and/or completed).
- Maintaining half-time enrollment (six or more credits per quarter for undergraduates)
Institutional scholarships require the following:
- Full-time status (12 or more SPU credits per quarter).
- Continuous enrollment in SPU credits. (If you have a break in enrollment, you will forfeit your scholarships unless you have received an exception from SFS prior to leaving SPU.)
Additionally, University policy states that the quarterly total of institutional awards (i.e., grants, scholarships, and tuition discounts) cannot exceed a student’s quarterly cost of tuition. If the total institutional aid for a quarter exceeds the quarterly cost of tuition, institutional aid will be reduced in this order: tuition discount, grant, scholarship.
Distinguished Scholars may receive institutional aid up to the cost of tuition and room and board as defined in the financial aid cost of attendance. Athletes, ASSP Scholarship recipients and resident advisors are covered under separate policies, which allow institutional aid to exceed tuition.
All institutional awards also have additional criteria for continued eligibility, which is detailed below.
Freshman Specific Awards
Distinguished Scholar Award (formerly SPU Scholar Award)*
- Maximum timeframe: four years
- Maximum credits covered per quarter: 20 credits
- Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
In-State Matching Scholar Award*
- Maximum timeframe: four years
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
SPU Merit Scholarships*
- Maximum timeframe: four years
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Faith for the Future Scholarship*
- Maximum timeframe: four years
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Transfer Specific Awards
Transfer Merit Scholarship
- Maximum timeframe: senior status
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Seattle Pacific Transfer Promise
- Maximum timeframe: senior status
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 GPA
Direct Transfer Degree Scholarship
- Maximum timeframe: senior status
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship
- Maximum timeframe: senior status
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Other Awards
Falcon Bound
- Maximum timeframe: four years
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA and continued eligibility for WA State College Bound Scholarship
Church Match Scholarship
- Maximum timeframe: four years
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA and maintain eligibility for the outside scholarship awarded by a church
Fine Arts Scholarship
- Maximum timeframe: renewed on approval by Fine Arts Department
- Eligibility criteria: renewed on approval by Fine Arts Department
SPU Visit Scholarship
- Maximum timeframe: one year
- Eligibility criteria: be enrolled full time
SPU Application Award
- Maximum timeframe: one year
- Eligibility criteria: be enrolled full time
Athletic
- Maximum timeframe: renewed on approval by Athletic Department
- Eligibility criteria: renewed on approval by Athletic Department
ROTC Academic Achievement Award
- Maximum timeframe: four years
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA; Air Force or Army ROTC scholarship recipient; live in campus housing. Students may receive it only in combination of either the ROTC Tuition Scholarship or SPU merit scholar awards, but not both.
Employee Spouse/Dependent Tuition Discount
- Maximum timeframe: five years; no limit for employees
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
SPU Grant
- Maximum timeframe: five years
- Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
* A student may receive no more than one of the awards noted with an (*) during the same academic year.