Frequently Asked Questions

The 2025-2026 Marshall Continuing Student Scholarship application will be live on Scholarship Universe beginning April 1, 2025; the deadline will be April 30, 2025.

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No, students do not need to be financial aid-eligible to apply for a Marshall Continuing Student Scholarship.

Yes, international students are eligible to apply for the awards.

Yes, the Marshall Continuing Student Scholarship Scholarships can help cover cost including tuition and university fees.  

Although awards require a minimum GPA of 3.0 or above, students with an overall GPA between 3.3 – 3.5 or higher are generally most competitive for these awards. If Spring 2025 is your first semester at USC, you are eligible to apply but you must earn a minimum USC GPA of 3.0 for your application to be considered further. 

Yes, all previous recipients are required to re-apply each year. Awards are one-time, non-recurring opportunities that are not automatically renewable from year-to-year.

Students who have been selected to receive a scholarship award will be notified in mid-summer. If chosen as a scholarship recipient, disbursement of the award(s) to a student’s account will occur upon receipt of a thank you letter for your scholarship's donor.

The Undergraduate Scholarship Committee will evaluate each student’s overall application and determine awards based on criteria such as academic merit, extracurricular involvement, accomplishments and awards, academic and career goals, work experience, and/or financial need. Individual awards will vary depending on your financial aid package and/or the number of qualified applicants. Please note that the receipt of award funds may alter allocation of other funds within your financial aid package (if applicable).

Students who are in their fourth year of study and returning to USC may apply for Marshall continuing student scholarship awards. Students who are not in their fourth year of study and returning to USC are not eligible to receive these scholarships. Students who are in their fourth year of study, but who are not returning to USC for the final year of study are not eligible to receive these scholarships.

No, students must be enrolled as a full-time (12 or more enrolled academic units) undergraduate units in both Fall 2025 and Spring 2026, and remain as a major in the Marshall School of Business for the duration of the 2025-2026 academic year.

No, students must be enrolled in 12 or more undergraduate academic units (full-time) in both Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 and remain as a major in the Marshall School of Business for the duration of the 2025-2026 academic year. Failure to meet these requirements in either Fall or Spring will result in a student's  Marshall Continuing Student Scholarship award not applying to the student's account. 

No, scholarships can only be applied for the Fall and Spring semesters of the school year in which the award was given. Students must be enrolled in 12 or more undergraduate academic units (full-time) in both Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. 

No, funding cannot be consolidated into one semester.

No, students who take a Leave of Absence forfeit their scholarship funds. Additionally, scholarship funds do not roll over to another year nor can they be applied to a student's account upon their return.