The Edelman Investment

The Edelman Scholars Program covers the full cost of attendance — tuition, fees, housing, meals and textbooks — for four academic years. Scholars graduate ready to build, not ready to repay.

“Hope is not a financial plan.” — Ric Edelman ’80

Full cost of attendance

• Tuition, fees, housing, meals and textbooks, covered for four years of undergraduate study.

Guaranteed campus housing

• Four years of guaranteed on-campus housing, with the freedom to live off campus as a junior or senior.

A $17,000 award at the end

• Disbursed within 90 days of graduation — seed money for whatever comes next.

A cohort and a mentor from day one

• An upper-class Scholar Partner before the fall semester begins, plus faculty mentorship, the alumni network and internship pathways.

Eligibility: High School Senior

What puts you in the running.

• If this sounds like you, you are already a candidate — there is nothing else to submit up front.

A New Jersey high school senior

• The program is for New Jersey residents entering Rowan as first-year students.

Admitted to Rowan University

• Apply by the December 15 priority date and you are reviewed for admission and the scholarship together.

A major in the Ric Edelman College

• Any program in Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences qualifies, and you can change majors within the college later.

A 3.6 GPA or higher

• A 3.6 unweighted high school GPA is required to be considered — this is a scholarship for students already doing the work.

Real leadership

• A team, a club, a job, a cause at school or in your community — somewhere you stepped up and others followed.

A completed FAFSA

• File the FAFSA each year. The scholarship is awarded on merit, not financial need, but the FAFSA is required.
• Hundreds of New Jersey seniors apply each year. Up to ten are chosen — for character, drive and the potential to lead.

Five Steps to Acceptance!