Merit Scholarships
Trustee Scholarship - Full Tuition
This four-year, or eight semester, honor is bestowed upon five exceptional first-time freshman each year.
Recipients will be selected from among the top 10 percent of the year’s applicant pool and will be invited to interview on campus in February. The selection committee will consider all students with outstanding academic records, strong admission essays and evidence of leadership and active involvement in their school, church and community.
Completed applications for admission to the College must be postmarked by 12/1 of a student's senior year to be considered for the Trustee Scholarship. Preferential consideration will be given to students who attend a campus visit program or who have an official individual visit with the admission office prior to December 1st.
Presidential Scholarship
The Presidential Scholarship is awarded to a small group of outstanding students who attend Trustee Scholarship Weekend. Fifteen Presidential scholarships are offered at $15,000 per year for up to four years of study at Illinois College.
Heritage Scholarship
The Heritage Scholarship is a competitive, merit-based scholarship that recognizes and rewards the academic accomplishments of high school students who reside in these 38 counties surrounding Illinois College:
| Adams | Fulton | Macoupin | Pike |
| Bond | Greene | Madison | Sangamon |
| Brown | Hancock | Mason | Schuyler |
| Calhoun | Henderson | Menard | Scott |
| Cass | Jersey | Monroe | Shelby |
| Champaign | Knox | Montgomery | St. Clair |
| Christian | Logan | Morgan | Tazewell |
| Clinton | McDonough | Moultrie | Warren |
| DeWitt | McLean | Peoria | |
| Fayette | Macon | Piatt |
The Heritage Scholarship is available for up to four years, in the amount of $12,000 per year. Students residing in an eligible county must be nominated by their high school principal, guidance counselor, or school superintendent to be considered.
To be eligible for nomination, students must meet at least two of the following three criteria:
· Rank in the top 10% of their high school graduating class
· Have a core academic grade point average (all courses in English, history/social science, foreign language, science and mathematics) of 3.5 or higher on a 4-point scale
· Have an ACT composite score of 25 or higher
Nominations must be received by July 1 prior to the student's senior year in high school.
Jonathan Baldwin Turner Scholarship
The Jonathan Baldwin Turner Scholarship, named for an early faculty member and the founder of the land grant colleges movement, offers awards of up to $12,000 per year.
Classical scholar, botanist, and political activist, Turner became a professor at the newly organized Illinois College in 1833. Turner was perhaps the leading voice in the social movement of the 1850's that produced the land grant universities that pioneered public higher education. Turner was especially involved in establishing the University of Illinois.
Edward Beecher Scholarship
The Edward Beecher Scholarship, named for the College's first President, offers awards of up to $8,500 per year.
Educated at Yale and Andover Seminary, Dr. Beecher became the pastor of Park Street Church in Boston in 1826, and in 1830 became the first president of Illinois College. The fledgling college grew under his leadership for fourteen years. Consistent with the work of his siblings, famous writer Harriett Beecher Stowe and popular American preacher Henry Ward Beecher, Edward was a devoted abolitionist who organized the first anti-slavery society in Illinois. Beecher Hall, the oldest college building in the state, bears the family name and remains in use on campus today.
Illinois College Achievement Award
The Illinois College Achievement Award offers awards of up to $5,000 per year.
Transfer Scholarship
Transfer students are eligible for merit-based scholarships of varying amounts up to $9,000.
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship
Members of Phi Theta Kappa national honorary society are eligible for a $10,000 PTK award. This scholarship cannot be combined with any Transfer Scholarships.
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