Since Academy of Art University’s art scholarships program was founded over 40 years ago, we have helped over 45,000 aspiring artists and designers pursue their educational goals. Academy of Art University offers a number of innovative and inexpensive ways for first-time students, high school students, and teachers to improve their skills and experience all that we have to offer.
Grants & Scholarships
Specialty Grants & Scholarships
Discover all of the different scholarship and grant opportunities at Academy of Art University. Learn more about it today.
Jumpstart your college experience directly after graduation! The ‘Ahead of the Curve – Summer 2025 New High School Graduate Scholarship’ is for new 2025 high school graduates starting at ArtU in Summer 2025 immediately after graduating from high school. This scholarship will be applied to Fall 2025 tuition and fees at the academy if all conditions of the scholarship are met. Transitioning directly from high school to college can help maintain academic momentum, and starting college immediately also allows students to potentially complete their education sooner.
Eligibility
- Must be a Spring 2025 High School graduate, starting classes at ArtU in Summer 2025 (start date: June 16th, 2025)
- Meets the university’s admission requirements:
- Completion of a Career Planning Session with an Undergraduate Admissions Specialist
- Submission of an Official High School Transcript
- Must be enrolled in a degree-seeking program (AA/AAS/BA/BARCH/BS) and take at least 6 units.
Award Amount
- Scholarship is a one-time award of $3,000, given in the Fall 2025 semester.
- Must be enrolled in at least 6 units for the Fall 2025 semester.
- AND must have passed all 6 units in the Summer 2025.
Application Process
- Scholarship will automatically be applied once the student has met all the admissions requirements
- Completion of the CPS
- Official HS Transcript received by the Office of the Registrar
- AND once the student completes their 6 units in Summer 2025 with passing grades.
ArtU has scholarship opportunities for International Students based on Academic Merit, Need, and Portfolio submissions, up to $5,000 per semester.
For more information on our Military Scholarship click here
ROTC provides eligible full-time undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to earn a college scholarship while taking ROTC courses.
Mission
- To recruit, educate, train, and inspire ROTC Cadets in order to commission officers of character for the Total Army.
Information
Eligible Academy of Art University students may qualify for:
Full or partial scholarship towards tuition
Yearly book stipend up to $1,200 per year
Monthly Stipend of $420
Take Action
Contact Admissions at Admissions@academyart.edu or 1-800-544-2787 for an introduction to the ROTC recruiter.
The Alumni Tuition Benefit supports all returning Academy alumni with a 20% tuition benefit off all courses and or additional degrees/certificates.
Award Information
- This benefit is for the recipient only and not redeemable for cash. It may only be applied toward tuition expenses.
Minimum Eligibility Requirements
- Applicant must have previously completed an undergraduate degree, graduate degree, Certificate or Award of Completion at Academy of Art University
Additional Information
Contact your Admissions Specialist at 800-544-2787 or 415-274-2200.
SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS AND BUILD NEW ONES
The Art Educators Studio Program offers art educators one TUITION-FREE art and design class that enhance existing skills, teach new skills, and give art educators an opportunity to master the most up-to-date software artists use.
TUITION-FREE FREEDOM TO EXPLORE
The Academy’s Program offers a one-time full tuition grant* for a maximum of one undergraduate class in either the Spring, Summer, or Fall semester; each class is worth three units.
Art Educators may choose from the entire catalog of classes that do not have a prerequisite course listed.**
*Grant recipients are responsible for supplementary costs and fees, including a $50 administration fee, and any lab, materials, or other fees associated with individual classes, along with dorm costs if recipient chooses to live in Academy of Art University dorms.
**For interest in a class that does have a prerequisite, it may be possible to have the requirement waived. Please speak with an Admissions Specialist to determine qualifications.
THREE UNIQUE WAYS TO STUDY AT THE ACADEMY
- Study on campus in beautiful San Francisco.
- Study online, asynchronously from anywhere in the country.
- Join live classes through Zoom.
ENROLL TODAY
Applying is easy. Download the application by clicking the link below. Scan a copy of your Teaching Credential Certificate or a letter from your supervisor or mentor describing your role in the school as an art teacher. Then, email both (as .pdf or .jpg attachments) to grantprograms@academyart.edu
Academy of Art University offers scholarships to qualified students who are transferring to the Academy from other accredited institutions.
Eligibility
To qualify for an Academy Transfer Scholarship, the applicant must meet all of the following criteria:
- Must have completed at least 1 semester at a United States based college or university (i.e. NOT Academy of Art University)
- Meets the Academy’s admission requirements:
- Completion of a Career Planning Session (CPS) with an Undergraduate Admissions Specialist
- Submission of an Official High School transcript or official GED
- Submission of an official college transcript
- Must enroll in a degree-seeking program, be continuously enrolled every Fall and Spring semester, and take and pass at least six units per semester
Award Amount
Transfer scholarships from the Academy are available up to a maximum amount of $10,000 USD. The award is divided evenly across 8 semesters ($1,250/ per semester). The student must take at least six units each semester.
Application Process
Scholarship will be applied once the student has met all of the admissions requirements:
- Completion of the CPS
- Official HS Transcript/GED received
- Official College Transcript has been received by the Office of the Registrar
- Transfer Scholarship Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the student and returned to their admissions specialist
Nationwide Scholarship Opportunities
Aspiring and current students can apply for nationwide scholarship opportunities to help continue your education here at Academy Art University. We’ve organized these by application closing date for your convenience. The Chamber of Commerce has created a Best College Scholarships Guide. This guide provides insight into the types of scholarships available, the application process, and how to improve your odds of being awarded a scholarship.
Headway’s Book Lovers Scholarship
Application Deadline: September 15, 2025
Award Amount(s): $1,500
Website: Headway’s Book Lovers Scholarship
Details: A $1,500 scholarship to support students fueled by their love to reading and dedicated to advancing their education.
Share your vision for a non-fiction book that has the potential to become a timeless handbook for humanity.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Available to US students seeking higher education in colleges, universities, and vocational-technical schools.
Learner Math Lover Scholarship
Application Deadline: September 25, 2025
Award Amount(s): $500
Website: Learner Math Lover Scholarship
Details: Math is one of the most important subjects to learn—it serves as the basis of other fields, including prominent fields like technology, business, and economics. It also teaches skills such as problem solving and logic, which we use on a daily basis.
We want to highlight the importance of math and all that it’s brought us. Advancements in technology, computers, and predicting economic trends are only a few of the things math has helped us achieve. To celebrate the importance of this essential subject and the students that use it, we’re awarding a $500 scholarship to all those that love math!
Eligibility Requirements:
- Loves math
- High school senior, undergraduate student, or graduate student
- Current U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident
Building Bridges Scholarship
Application Deadline: September 30, 2025
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: Building Bridges Scholarship
Details: Each year NPVA offers merit-based scholarships for students who are committed to volunteering and making a difference in their communities. Our scholarships are open to students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Be currently enrolled or plan to be enrolled part-time or full-time in an accredited U.S. college or university. Vocational/technical, two-year, four-year, or graduate institutions are eligible.
- Be a high school junior or senior, undergraduate student, or graduate student.
- Have a grade point average of 2.5 or above on a 4.0 system.
- Recipients must provide an official transcript confirming their reported GPA and proof of enrollment. No transcript or proof of enrollment is required until after students are selected as winners.
College JumpStart Pay It Forward Scholarship
Application Deadline: September 30, 2025
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: College JumpStart Pay It Forward Scholarship
Details: The $1,000 College JumpStart Pay It Forward Scholarship allows you to share a time that you have paid it forward. In other words, has there been a time that someone has done something kind for you and this has motivated you to do something kind for someone else? We’d love to hear about this experience and how it has affected you.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Current student (high school 10th-12th or college) or planning to enter college within the next 12 months.
- U.S. citizen or legal resident.
Delete Cyberbullying Beyond School Walls Scholarship
Application Deadline: October 30, 2025
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: Delete Cyberbullying Beyond School Walls Scholarship
Details: In an effort to get students committed to the cause of deleting cyberbullying, we are offering the Delete Cyberbullying Beyond School Walls Scholarship Award for high school and college students to help cover educational expenses.
Even though cyberbullying may occur beyond school walls or outside of school hours, we’d like students to know that there is help both within and outside of school. Students can reach out to a trusted teacher, coach, employer, relative, or other adult for help.
Eligibility Requirements:
- To apply, you must be a high school student (9th-12th grader), college student or graduate student attending or planning to enter an accredited U.S. college or university.
Aaliyah Lee Scholarship
Application Deadline: November 30, 2025
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: Aaliyah Lee Scholarship
Details: Each year NPVA offers merit-based scholarships for students who are committed to volunteering and making a difference in their communities. Our scholarships are open to students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Be currently enrolled or plan to be enrolled part-time or full-time in an accredited U.S. college or university. Vocational/technical, two-year, four-year, or graduate institutions are eligible.
- Be a high school junior or senior, undergraduate student, or graduate student.
- Have a grade point average of 2.5 or above on a 4.0 system.
- Recipients must provide an official transcript confirming their reported GPA and proof of enrollment. No transcript or proof of enrollment is required until after students are selected as winners.
NYC Restoration Scholarship
Application Deadline: December 22, 2025
Award Amount(s): $500
Website: NYC Restoration Scholarship
Details: At NYC Restoration, our mission is to deliver exceptional craftsmanship and unparalleled customer service. We collaborate closely with our clients, providing tailored solutions for their unique needs. Whether it’s water damage repair, mold remediation, or fire and smoke damage restoration, we ensure your home is restored to its original or improved condition with minimal disruption to your daily life.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Open to high school seniors, undergraduates, and graduate students who are currently enrolled or planning to enroll in an accredited institution in the USA and Canada.
College JumpStart Love of Learning Scholarship
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: College JumpStart Love of Learning Scholarship
Details: The $1,000 College JumpStart Love of Learning Scholarship offers you time to share an idea or subject that you are passionate about. College provides the opportunity to pursue your interests both inside and outside of the classroom. We’d like to hear about what idea or subject sparks you and why.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Current student (high school 10th-12th or college) or planning to enter college within the next 12 months.
- U.S. citizen or legal resident.
The Domaine Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 1st (Fall)/December 1st (Spring)
Award Amount(s): $2000
Website: The Domaine Scholarship Program
Details: The Domaine Scholarship Program seeks to reward and support one student per semester that is actively pursuing an undergraduate degree in exchange for a thoughtful research and perspective piece on the buying patterns of the next generation of consumers.
Through this scholarship program, we are looking to tap into the fresh perspectives and insights of today’s college and university students. As a leading Shopify agency, we want to understand this generation’s shopping behaviors and preferences as we design and develop the ecommerce shopping experiences of the future, rewarding one innovative mind per semester with a $2,000 scholarship.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Open to all undergraduate students regardless of major.
- Must be current, full-time students at accredited two-year or four-year U.S. universities or colleges.
- Students should not be entering their first semester as a Freshman or their last semester as a Senior.
All Star Verified Scholarship
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $1000
Website: All Star Verified Scholarship
Details: This is a merit-based scholarship and financial need is not considered. We designed this scholarship to help students pay for college and it may be used to pay for tuition or any related fees such as room and board. The first prize is $1,000.
Eligibility Requirements:
- This scholarship is open to high school, college, graduate, or adult students and parents of high school and college students.
SuperMoney’s Financial Literacy Scholarship
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $500
Website: SuperMoney’s Financial Literacy Scholarship
Details: SuperMoney’s mission is to help everyone reach their financial goals. SuperMoney’s Financial Literacy Scholarship seeks to celebrate students who share our same mission.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Be enrolled full-time in high school as a senior or be a part-time or full-time student in a college, graduate school, trade school, or coding bootcamp.
- Have an overall average GPA of at least 3.0
- Be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
Johnny Chen Media Content Writing Annual Scholarship Contest
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $600
Website: Johnny Chen Media Content Writing Annual Scholarship Contest
Details: Johnny Chen, with Johnny Chen Media, has built his successful SEO agency through education and determination. At Johnny Chen Media, we understand the value of investing in the future. That’s why we offer an annual scholarship to students who need financial support to further their education.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Be enrolled in a college or university in the United States for the upcoming school year
- Have a minimum GPA of 2.5
- Application submissions are due by the last day of the month for each school semester
UncommonGoods Scholarships
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: UncommonGoods Scholarships
Details: We know it isn’t always easy when you’re just starting out in a creative field of study. So, we’re offering a scholarship to help hardworking student-artists out, because hey—you might be gracing our assortment with your work someday!
Eligibility Requirements
- We’re looking for undergraduate art or design majors at accredited universities.
ChooseWhat Scholarship
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: ChooseWhat Scholarship
Details: Have you ever earned money as a contractor or a small business owner? If so, this scholarship opportunity is for you.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Any undergraduate or graduate student currently enrolled in a degree program at any accredited American College, University or Trade School with self-employment experience may apply.
Edith Nourse Rogers Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) Scholarship
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): The Rogers STEM Scholarship will provide up to nine months of additional Post-9/11 GI Bill® benefits (to a maximum of $30,000) to qualifying Veterans and Fry Scholars seeking an undergraduate STEM degree or who have earned a STEM degree and are seeking a teaching certification.
Website: Edith Nourse Rogers Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) Scholarship
Details: VA has launched the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program for students training in high demand STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. The Rogers STEM Scholarship will provide up to nine months of additional Post-9/11 GI Bill® benefits (to a maximum of $30,000) to qualifying Veterans and Fry Scholars seeking an undergraduate STEM degree or who have earned a STEM degree and are seeking a teaching certification.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must be a Veteran or Fry Scholar enrolled in a STEM degree program and has completed at least 60 semester credit hours (or 90 quarter credit hours)
- Must be a Veteran or Fry Scholar who has earned a STEM degree and is now seeking a teaching certification
GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government Web site.
Nitro College Scholarship
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $5,000
Website: Nitro College Scholarship
Details: Nitro cares about providing you the resources you need to successfully navigate financing college. That’s why we’re offering you the opportunity to earn a $5,000 scholarship from Nitro. We know that college is a big step forward in achieving your goals and we want to help you get there using all the tools Nitro has to offer.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Open to all legal residents of the United States and the District of Columbia
- Students must be applying to or enrolled in an accredited college or university for the upcoming (2017-2018) school year
Roshan Rahbari Scholarship Fund
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $5,000
Website: Roshan Rahbari Scholarship Fund
Details: The Roshan Rahbari Scholarship Fund seeks to support outstanding community college students with financial need to transfer to and complete their bachelor’s degrees at four-year colleges and universities.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Current resident of California
- Current community college student transferring to a four-year college or university on a part-time or full-time basis
- Minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0
- Demonstrated service to community or school
- Demonstrated financial need
- Character qualities such as integrity, compassion and generosity
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $15,000
Website: The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
Details: Available to emerging figurative artists with a representational style of painting, drawing, sculpture, or printmaking. Offers additional renewal awards to selected applicants.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must attend a university, a four-year college or a two-year college
- Must be at least 18 years old
- Restricted to individuals with the following interests: art
Blankstyle Scholarship
Application Deadline: Open/No Deadline
Award Amount(s): $1,000
Website: Blankstyle Scholarship
Details: At Blankstyle.com we realize the importance of education. Our employees range from artists to content writers, and from programmers to customer service representatives. The commonality with our team is great communication hinging on a solid foundation of education. We understand that in today’s economy, it is expensive and challenging to obtain a quality education. As we benefit from our educated team here at Blankstyle.com, so does the world in that education equates to a brighter future for all who seek it.
Eligibility Requirements:
- a high school senior that has been accepted to an accredited university or
- a current student enrolled in college courses
