Academic Scholarship Awards Program
All award recipients are athletically eligible, full-time students who actively participated on their respective teams during the past academic year. Verification of participation and eligibility is done through the Athletic Compliance Coordinator and QPA’s are certified by the Registrar. To receive the scholarship grants or first year awards, students must be continuing full-time students at KU. This may include graduate school. (Graduating students will be offered specially designed custom watches upon graduation). Students must be recommended by their coach. Continued athletic participation is not required, but the circumstances relating to non-continuation may be a factor.
Presidential Scholarship Awards
($500 plus custom jacket first year)
Are given to the male and female student-athletes with the highest cumulative QPA’s or any student-athlete achieving a 4.00.
Provost Scholarship Awards
($250 plus custom jacket first year)
Are given to all student-athletes with a QPA of 3.25 and above.
Deans Scholarship Awards
(custom jacket for first year, $125 subsequent years)
Are given to all student-athletes with a QPA of 3.00 to 3.24.
Vice Presidential Progress Scholarship Awards
(custom jacket for first year, $75 subsequent years)
Are given to all student-athletes who meet specific criteria and are given approval for exemplary academic improvement/ persistence over the course of at least one academic year or from their initial enrollment to the present.
Graduates
(Custom Watches)
Student-athlete who would otherwise have been eligible for these awards, but do not receive them only because they have graduated and leave the University in the spring or subsequent winter, are offered a custom KU athletic watch.
First-Year Custom Jackets will be presented by the director of athletics at or near the beginning of each academic year. Grants (scholarships) will be credited during the spring semester after the academic year in which the QPA was achieved. Scholarships that create an over-award situation for a student may be credited for summer school with special permission of the director of athletics.
