Grants may be awarded based on a student’s financial need, ethnicity, religious affiliation, record of achievement, association, or special interests.
Click on the links below to learn more about the different types of grants that are available.
- Federal Pell Grant - The Federal Pell Grant Program provides grants to undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students. Grants are need-based and are designed to help low-income students pay for schooling. Grant amounts are dependent on the cost of education and the student's expected family contribution (EFC).
- Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant - The FSEOG Program supports post-secondary education by providing need-based grants to low-income undergraduate students. Grant amounts vary. Students who get this grant typically have a very low EFC and are usually Federal Pell Grant recipients.
- Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) - This state-administered program awards need-based grants to eligible postsecondary students.
- Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program - This federally funded and state-administered program awards grants to exceptional high school students.
