Scholarships

The Department of Accounting & Information Systems offers many scholarships annually to accounting students.  Applications are due on-line to the Undergraduate Programs Office.  Click here for an application.

Additional information is available at the Office of Student Financial Services.

Outside organizations also award scholarships directly to accounting students in addition to departmental awards.   Separate applications directly to these organizations are required.   Scholarships include PwC Minority Scholarship, National Society of Scholarships Foundations,  and others listed below.  If a hyperlink is not available, stop by the Department of Accounting Office for additional information.

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants w/ Robert Half International/Accountemps offers scholarships to two AICPA student affiliate members. Applicants must be undergraduate or graduates pursuing studies in accounting, finance, or information systems. The scholarship is $2,500 for one year. Application deadline is April 1. Applications are available on the AICPA web site at ceae.aicpa.org/resources/scholarships+and+awards/aicpa+accountemps+student+scholarship=program.htm

AICPA John L. Carey Scholarships Program offers scholarships for liberal arts students wishing to pursue graduate accounting study. Application deadline is April 1. Applications are available at www.aicpa.org/members/div/career/edu/jlcs.htm

National ALPFA Scholarship .  Fifty (50) students from across the United States will be selected to receive scholarships, all of whom will be invited to attend the National ALPFA Conference in Scottsdale, AZ August 10 – 14, 2008, at no cost to them.  Application deadline is March 15. 

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) has scholarships to offer.  Application deadline is April 18, 2008.

Following is a listing of scholarships awarded through the Department of Accounting & Information Systems.  This list may not be comprehensive and it is subject to change.  Other donors have also generously contributed funds for discretionary use by the accounting department.  Thanks to the contributors!  Click here for an application.

Undergraduate Scholarships offered through the Department of Accounting

Beta Alpha Psi Scholarship 

BDO Seidman

Bollom Family Accounting Scholarship
Lindsay R. Boyle Scholarship 
Paul A. Carlson Scholarship 
Deloitte Scholarship 

Ralph & Elizabeth Ebbott Study Abroad Scholarship
F.H. Elwell Scholarship 
Ernst & Young Scholarship 
Earl G. Frank Scholarship
George E. Frazer Scholarship 
Harold O. Frobach Memorial Scholarship 
Grant Thornton Scholarship 
SC Johnson  Scholarship 
KPMG Scholarship 
Lawrence J. Larson Excellence Award 
McGladrey & Pullen Scholarship 
Leonard T. Nelson Scholarship 
PricewaterhouseCoopers Scholarship

Floyd and Ruth B Radel P.A. Scholar 

David M. Sarnoff Accounting
Wesley G. Scheibel, Sr./Arthur Andersen Scholarship 
Harry H. Vernon Scholarship 
Virchow, Krause & Co. Scholarship 
Kenneth B. Wackman Scholarship 

Velna A. Wells Scholarship

Wipfli Scholarship 

 

 

Graduate Scholarships

 

Andersen Scholars 
Norman Basset Foundation Scholarships 

Ernst & Young Scholar

Lindsay R. Boyle
Jere D. Fluno Graduate Scholarship 
Jay H. Price, Jr. Scholar

Robert W. Taplick Scholar

WICPA Educational Foundation Scholarship