Financial Aid Programs

Virginia Wesleyan also offers academic scholarships, without regard to need, to entering freshmen and transfer students with outstanding academic records. All VWU Scholarships and Grants are applied to tuition charges only. VWU reserves the right to recalculate scholarships and grants due to major changes to our tuition structure.

Federal Pell Grant

Amount: $672 - $6,495 grant (Amount subject to change based on federal funding.) Eligibility: Demonstrated need

Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)

Amount: $500 grant (Amount subject to change based on federal funding.) Eligibility: Demonstrated need

Federal Work-Study (FWS)

Amount: $2500 award Eligibility: Demonstrated need

Federal Direct Stafford Student Loan Programs

Amount: $500 - $7,500 ($2,000 must be unsubsidized) Eligibility: Demonstrated need

Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant (VTAG)

Application: VTAG application (Due July 31 from Virginia Wesleyan) Amount: $4,000 (Amount subject to change) Eligibility: N/A; Must be a Virginia resident

VWU Merit Scholarships Batten Fellowship

Application: Batten Honors College Application Eligibility: No need requirement; Based on academic achievement, SAT scores, GPA, and requires you to be a resident student all 4 years. This is a competitive fellowship in which you must be invited to attend the competition.

Shumadine Scholars

Application: Batten Honors College Application Eligibility: No need requirement; Based on academic achievement, SAT scores, GPA, and requires you to be a resident student all 4 years. This is a competitive scholarship in which you must be invited to attend the competition.

VWU Scholarship

Application: VWU Admission Application Eligibility: No need requirement; based on academic achievement, SAT scores, GPA, and residential status.

VWU Award

Application: VWU Admission Application Eligibility: No need requirement; based on academic achievement, SAT scores, GPA, and residential status.

Transfer Scholarships

Application: VWU Admission Application Eligibility: No need requirement; based on academic achievement from prior school and residential status

Sons/Daughters and Spouses of Clergy

Application: VWU Admission Application and notification to the Financial Aid Office Amount: Up to half-tuition grant for eight semesters (including any scholarships and need based grants offered)

Satisfactory Academic Progress

The Financial Aid Office will routinely check grades after the fall, spring, and summer semesters. Specifically, the office is looking at a student’s cumulative GPA, progress towards their degree, and whether that student is still on track to graduate within four years. Each student is required to maintain a minimum passing rate of 70% in their attempted classes.

GPA expectations are as follows:

- 23 or fewer credits completed, a minimum cumulative GPA of 1.8 - 24 - 53 credits completed, a minimum cumulative GPA of 1.9 - 54+ credits completed, a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 - Master’s Program, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 Failure to meet the University’s minimum passing rate could result in a loss of federal student aid or eligibility. Students working towards a Bachelor’s Degree can earn up to 192 credits towards their first degree before they are no longer eligible for Federal Aid. Students receiving Virginia Aid and/or Virginia Wesleyan Scholarships/Grants are no longer eligible for aid after four years.

Please refer to the Financial Aid Self-Service site on Virginia Wesleyan University’s website to review the complete policy in reference to Financial Aid and eligibility requirement. Students who have lost financial aid are also encouraged to read about the University’s appeal process.

Any student that has satisfied all requirements for their first Bachelor’s Degree at VWU, even if they have not been awarded their diploma, is not eligible for any additional Federal, State or VWU Financial Aid to finish a 2nd Bachelor’s Degree or a Minor.