Scholarships Available for Tranfer Students
Bridgewater State University offers several merit scholarships to qualified transfer students. You will automatically be considered for a merit scholarship during the admission evaluation process. Eligibility for merit scholarships is based on your recalculated cumulative GPA from all previous college transcripts. If you are an admitted transfer with 23 credits or less, you will be considered for our first-year scholarships.
Due to the competitiveness of the Aviation Science, Flight Training program, scholarship awards may vary from the below criteria.
Transfer Bear Scholarship
$3,000/year
- Available exclusively to Massachusetts residents
- Provides $3,000 a year ($1,500/semester) toward overall cost of attendance
- Scholarship is for continuous full-time enrollment
- Requirements: 3.75+ transfer GPA, minimum 24 transfer credits, Massachusetts resident, full-time status
- Number to award: unlimited
Transfer Achievement Scholarship
$2,000/year
- Available exclusively to Massachusetts residents
- Provides up to $2,000 a year ($1,000/semester) toward overall cost of attendance
- Scholarship is for continuous full-time enrollment
- Requirements: 3.50-3.74 transfer GPA, minimum 24 transfer credits, Massachusetts resident, full-time status
- Number to award: unlimited
MassTransfer Tuition Waiver Program
$910/year
- Available to graduates of Massachusetts Community Colleges
- Provides up to $910 a year ($455/semester) toward overall cost of attendance
- Enroll continuously (full-time or part-time) for two years in the day-division
- Requirements: 3.00+ transfer GPA, earned associates degree from a public community college under the MassTransfer program,
- Number to award: unlimited
Horace Mann Merit Scholarship
$5,000/year
- Available exclusively to non-Massachusetts residents
- Provides $5,000 a year ($2,500/semester) toward overall cost of attendance
- Scholarship is for continuous full-time enrollment
- Requirements: non-Massachusetts resident, full-time status
- Number to award: unlimited
Thanks to the generosity of donors and the Bridgewater State University Foundation, $44.4M in annual funding supports BSU students in a variety of majors as well as students participating in paid internships, study abroad and undergraduate research.
To learn more, contact the Office of Undergraduate Admission at admission@bridgew.edu or 508.531.1237.