For the international student who has a dream of studying in the United States, Kent State University offers two Global Scholarship schemes. With the aim of recognizing and keeping the value of diversity among its student, the University of Kent introduced the Global Scholarship and Global Diversity Scholarship. Moreover, it seeks to attract a greater number of high-quality international students to its campuses.

Further, the Global Scholarship and Global Diversity Scholarship are the two most prestigious scholarship schemes the Kent State University offers for international students. Moreover, the scholarships depend on a number of factors defined by the eligibility criteria. Further, the Kent State University Global scholarships differ in the financial sustenance it provides to international students. Also, the scholarship duration differs.

Kent State University Global Scholarship

The Global Scholarship is available to all incoming international undergraduate degree-seeking students who have been admitted to Kent State. The Global Scholarship provides eligible students with $4,000 per year ($2,000 per semester), reducing the cost of a Kent State 4-year undergraduate degree by up to $16,000.

Kent State University automatically considers freshmen or transfer students for this scholarship. Hence, you do not require to provide a separate application. Moreover, the deadline for the admission for the fall semester is June 1 and for spring semester is October 1

ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS & ELIGIBILITY

• A student qualifies as an incoming international student
• Likewise, the student should intend to pursue an undergraduate degree and will enroll full time at Kent State
• However, Graduate, exchange, visiting, ESL or current students are not eligible for the Global Scholarship
• Nor in-state resident students are eligible for the Global Scholarship
• Only those students attending the Kent campus are eligible to receive the Global Scholarship

AMOUNT

The Global Scholarship grants each eligible undergraduate freshman or transfer student $4,000 per year ($2,000 per semester). Incoming freshmen students may receive the Global Scholarship for a total of eight semesters. Transfer students may receive the Global Scholarship for up to eight semesters depending on the number of credits transferred to Kent State.

For the Global Scholarship to automatically renew each year, awarded students simply need to maintain continuous full-time enrollment at Kent State and good academic standing.

Kent State University Global Diversity Scholarship