Scholarships

Each year, a select number of incoming freshmen are awarded this prestigious full-tuition scholarship through an interview and application process. The Trustee Scholarship is a full-tuition award given each year to 10 incoming freshmen who are high achieving students. The application process includes an online application, video, essay and interview, if selected.

Trustee Scholarship

We offer merit-based aid to students based on GPA and test scores. For more information, contact your Admissions Counselor.

Incoming freshmen who have received the Eagle Scout Award, Venturing Silver Award, Sea Scouting Quartermaster Award, Trail Life Freedom Award, GSUSA Gold Award, Ambassador Award, or American Heritage Girls Stars and Stripes Award are awarded $2,500 per year. Proof of scouting award is required. Recipients must live on-campus and maintain a 3.0 GPA. The Scout Award is renewable up to a maximum of eight semesters. Deadline for application is prior to freshman year enrollment.

Any athlete that receives $12,000 or more in athletic scholarship is required to file a FAFSA.

If you graduated from an NCSA Member School, you are automatically eligible for the Head of School Grant ($5,000 award per year) with a letter of recommendation from your school headmaster. 

Children of Lipscomb employees are not eligible for this scholarship. Recipients of Trustee, National Merit Finalists/Semi-Finalists, Lipscomb Academy Valedictorian Scholarship and athletes whose combined Lipscomb aid is full tuition and above are not eligible. NCSA Grant in combination with all other gift aid may not exceed full tuition.

Cumulative GPA of 2.0 required for renewal.

Lipscomb University will match any amount up to $500 per year that a Church of Christ contributes to a first-time undergraduate student’s education at Lipscomb.

The Financial Aid Office will automatically award the matching scholarship when church funds are received in our office.

Lipscomb participates in the Counsel of Christian Colleges and Universities Tuition Exchange Program. Please visit the CCCU website for more information. Mail all applications to Lipscomb University.

Departmental colleges award their own scholarships to incoming students. They each have specific criteria, dates and application requirements that need to be met. Please contact your college to learn more about what scholarships are available and how you can apply.

Lipscomb awards an annual scholarship to each transfer student who transfers 12 or more credit hours from another four-year university or community college. To be eligible for the Lipscomb Pathways Scholarship, students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA.  This scholarship is for students seeking their first bachelor's degree only. This scholarship cannot be applied to summer classes.

Scholarships range from $14,000 ($7,000 per semester) to $20,000 per year ($10,000 per semester) for the duration that the student is enrolled.  Students must maintain a minimum 2.5 cumulative college GPA and enroll full-time for each semester they receive the scholarship. 

This scholarship is stackable with the Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship and the Community College Transfer Scholarship. It cannot be combined with other Lipscomb institutional aid. Children of Lipscomb employees are not eligible.

Students who transfer to Lipscomb from a community college are eligible for a $2,000 annual scholarship. The student’s most recent college before transferring to Lipscomb must be a community college to be eligible for this scholarship. A 2.0 cumulative GPA is required.

For renewal each semester, a 2.0 GPA and full-time enrollment is required. This scholarship can be stacked with the Lipscomb Pathways Scholarship and the Phi Theta Kappa/National Society of Leadership and Success Scholarship. This scholarship cannot be stacked with the Transfer Trustee Scholarship.

Transfer students who provide official documentation of membership from Phi Theta Kappa or the National Society of Leadership and Success upon entering Lipscomb University will receive a $2,500 annual scholarship. This award can be combined with the Transfer Pathways Scholarship and the Community College Transfer Scholarship. Students must maintain a cumulative 3.0 GPA at Lipscomb each semester for renewal.

This scholarship is for students seeking their first bachelor's degree only. Children of Lipscomb employees and Lipscomb Online students are not eligible. Scholarship cannot be applied to summer classes.

Lipscomb University's Board of Trustees, in partnership with the Tennessee Board of Regents, will award eight full-tuition scholarships to students who transfer to Lipscomb from a community college.

A 3.5 cumulative GPA and 30+ transferable credit hours upon entry to Lipscomb University are required.

Transfer Trustee Scholarship

We encourage you to search for and pursue as many scholarship resources as you can to ensure you receive the maximum amount of financial aid for which you qualify. Outside scholarships can be funded by companies, organizations, foundations, religious affiliations and more.

Please know that outside scholarships can affect your eligibility for institutional aid. Since they help meet college expenses, we must take this into consideration when determining eligibility for other aid programs. 

If you are receiving an outside scholarship, please email a confirmation letter to financialaid [at] lipscomb.edu (Financial Aid). All outside scholarship checks can be mailed to:

Attn: Financial Aid
1 University Park Drive
Nashville, TN 37204

One of the first steps for incoming freshmen will be to talk to your high school guidance counselor. They receive scholarship information from most scholarship organizations, especially local organizations. This is an excellent resource to find criteria on applying for and receiving aid from organizations near your hometown or others.

Tennessee residents who graduate from high school in the state are eligible to apply for a HOPE Scholarship. To receive the award, students must have been a Tennessee resident for at least one year prior to September 1. For eligibility requirements and award amounts, see the official scholarship website. 

A FAFSA must also be submitted to qualify for this award.

If you did not list Lipscomb University as the first school on your FAFSA for the current award year, you will need to update through your TSAC Student Portal.

Tennessee residents who received the HOPE Scholarship at their previous school must notify TSAC to transfer the HOPE scholarship to Lipscomb.

In order to maintain the HOPE scholarship, you must be continuously enrolled in school.  If you will not be continuously enrolled (excluding the summer term) for any reason, please contact the financial aid office.

Some institutional awards require recipients to live on campus each semester to remain eligible. You must secure on-campus housing and a meal plan for the scholarship to remain in place and pay to your account. If you move off campus, the award may be affected. 

Students with the following awards have an on-campus requirement:

• Trustee Scholarship
• Scout Award
• All Employment-Based Scholarship, except the NCSA (K-12) Employee Grant
• Kappa Iota Theta Scholarship

There are several awards which carry a value for both on campus and off campus. This means if you live off campus, the award will be reduced to meet the off-campus award value. Awards are subject to the Direct Cost Policy of the university. Awards will be adjusted to prevent an over-award of institutional aid. The awards are as follows:

• Head of School Grant
• International Student Awards

All Lipscomb University academic scholarships are valid up to 126 attempted hours. From time to time, exceptions to the 126 hour rule will be made for students who have unusual or extenuating circumstances, so students will need to contact the financialaid [at] lipscomb.edu (financial aid office) when they approach 126 hours.

Financial aid award packaging is based on current information. Changes to the FAFSA, moving off-campus and additional gift aid (Lipscomb scholarships, outside scholarships, state and/or federal grants) may result in adjustment of institutional aid, including memorial scholarship awards. If you withdraw from the university or drop below full-time enrollment after the start of the semester and receive a refund of tuition (full or partial), all institutional aid will be removed whether paid or unpaid. 

Other restrictions may apply to any of these scholarships listed above. To apply and to receive additional information about these awards, please contact the admissions [at] lipscomb.edu (Office of Admissions). Applications and selection of recipients will be handled through the Office of Admissions.

Complete awarding and renewal requirements can be found in the Online Undergraduate Catalog.