Create Engage Explore Scholarship
for continuing students
The Create Engage Explore Scholarship was established to recognize the achievement(s) of incoming freshman and incoming transfer students who have been admitted and completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Note: Create Engage Explore Scholarship consideration has closed.
Award based on:
- merit
- merit and financial need
- Scholarship Terms
- The Create Engage Explore Scholarship is automatically renewable each year up to 120 attempted credit hours (BA) or 128 attempted credit hours (BFA, BS, BMus) or four years*, whichever is reached first. The total credit hours include all transferable college credit hours, Advanced Placement credit hours, CLEP credit hours, and credit hours earned at other colleges and universities under dual enrollment. For the scholarship to be renewable, the recipient must:
- Be enrolled full-time each semester;
- Not interrupt enrollment;
- Maintain a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average;
*Please note: Freshmen will need to enroll an average of 15 credit hours for a BA and an average of 16 credit hours for BFA, BS and BMus each Fall and Spring semester to graduate within four years.
- The attempted credit hour and four-year limits are not based on degree completion, and the same limits apply to students pursuing double majors.
- Students who interrupt their enrollment or enroll less than full-time will forfeit any remaining scholarship funds.
- Funds are awarded during the Fall and Spring terms only.
- Scholarship is applied toward tuition only.
- Scholarship may be used toward a study abroad program through one of Columbia's student exchange programs, excluding Summer semesters. Please note: Recipients who enroll in an independent study abroad program not associated with Columbia will forfeit their award during the semester spent abroad but will retain future eligibility if all other scholarship terms are met.
- Scholarship is based on academic and financial need information provided to the college at the time of admission. Any subsequent, additional, or clarifying data that significantly alters this information may make a recipient ineligible to receive this scholarship.
- Scholarship is limited to courses for which a student registers through MyColumbia and does not cover Columbia Online courses.
- The rules governing other sources of financial aid (federal, state, institutional and other grants, gifts, or loans) will apply.