Other than department scholarships, do colleges award based per school, as opposed to university-wide? Is it harder to get scholarships as an engineering major?
At some colleges, it is harder to get accepted as an engineering major!
If the scholarship is specific to engineering, it likely will have harder to get as most accepted to engineering are strong students.
But there are plenty of colleges that award scholarships and don’t really give two hoots what your major is.
Is that what you are asking?
@thumper1 Yes, that is what I meant.
Whether schools like UConn, Rutgers, other state schools give out scholarships regardless of major or not.
Well…where are you instate?
I’m a CT resident…and scholarships at UConn are not particularly plentiful to begin with…but ones for OOS students are even less plentiful.
For NJ…Rutgers also doesn’t have a huge number of scholarships…and ones for OOS are even less plentiful.
That might be a more significant factor for you to consider.
University of Alabama has the most generous guaranteed merit scholarships of any public school i have heard about. These awards are guaranteed based on your stats. The student does have to complete the scholarship application as well, but it’s not hard to do. Your major doesn’t matter…at all…but engineering majors get an additional $2500 stipend.
UMich has separated scholarships for LSA and CoE. The percentage of students getting scholarships is higher in CoE, but the amount for in state is a little bit less. One just cannot compare apple to orange.
Engineering is a hard major and has a high concentration of bright students. I’d say that generally, there is quite a lot of competition in a college of engineering (anywhere) for what little department/university scholarships they may have.
Ohio State has a separate application for merit and engineering scholarships.
University of Pittsburgh has honors college scholarships and some SSOE scholarships.
But these are competitive, not automatic.