Central State University Offers New Scholarship for STEM Majors
Filed in Financial Aid, HBCUs on April 21, 2017
Central State University, the historically Black educational institution in Wilberforce, Ohio, is offering a new $10,000 renewable scholarship for Ohio residents who are majoring in particular STEM fields or in agriculture. The scholarships are available to first-year students and community college transfers and can be renewed each year.
The Broadening Ohio’s Workforce in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics-Agriculture scholarship is made available by the Ohio Department of Higher Education. To be eligible, students must be Ohio residents and have had a minimum 3.0 grade point average in high school or community college. Incoming first-year students must also have achieved a score of at least 22 on the ACT college entrance examination. The mean score for African Americans on the ACT test nationwide is 17 on a scale of 1 to 36.
Those seeking the scholarships must also submit a personal essay and a recommendation from a past teacher. They must declare an intended major in manufacturing engineering, environmental engineering, water resources management, biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, sustainable agriculture, or agriculture education.
