Academic scholarships are awarded to incoming undergraduate students who meet specific criteria. You are not required to submit a separate scholarship application. If you qualify, you will be notified by the Office of Financial Aid once you are admitted to the university. 

Eligibility requirements for students beginning fall 2022:

• Undergraduate students only
• Full-time student (first time or transfer)
• Minimum of 2.5 GPA

Scholarship Amounts for First-Time Beginner Students per Year

Domestic Student Deadline Requirements

International and Noncitizen Student Deadline Requirements

PFW Scholarship Renewal Criteria

In-State First-Time Beginner Students

• HA and AD admit types

• Can be stacked with 21st Century Students and Children of Disabled Veterans to just pay tuition and mandatory fees. 

• Includes Ohio Reciprocity Program students

Out-of-State First-Time Beginner Students

• HA and AD admit types

• Includes International students

• Includes MSEP & Contiguous States

• Includes Non-Residents

Transfer Students

• TA and IP admit types

• Includes international students

• Can be stacked with 21st Century Students and Children of Disabled Veterans to just pay tuition and mandatory fees. 

• Applies to all TA/IP admits regardless of number of transfer credits

For All Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarships

• Award is applicable to tuition and regularly assessed fees only.

  • If your tuition is fully covered by other tuition specific aid, not including State of Indiana aid, you will not be eligible for the Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship in that specific semester/aid year. 

• Domestic students must be committed (enrollment deposit submitted) by June 1 for every fall entry term.

• Domestic students must submit final transcripts by August 1 for every fall entry term; international students must submit final transcripts by the end of the entry term.

• Cumulative GPA used to determine Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship value:

  • First-time beginner students direct from high school will be from the students official final transcript that includes graduation date.

  • Transfer students cumulative GPA will be determined by the most recent college/university attended.  

• Students must be registered full-time to receive the scholarship each semester; if credit hours are under full-time enrollment, your scholarship value for the term will be removed from your account.

• The award is renewable as long as you are pursuing your first bachelor’s degree at Purdue Fort Wayne, have been continuously enrolled with the university, have completed 24 resident credit hours at Purdue Fort Wayne each academic year (earned hours), and are in good standing for satisfactory academic progress.

• Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarships may be funded by existing donor scholarships that may replace the Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship amount. Not all scholarships are stackable with the Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship. Contact the Office of Financial Aid for clarification.

• Scholarship value is split equally between the fall and spring semesters.

  • This scholarship is not available for the summer terms.

• Note: If you are a spring admit, you will be awarded the half value for that term.

  • The award is renewable for the next academic year as long as you are pursuing your first bachelor’s degree at Purdue Fort Wayne, have been continuously enrolled with the university, have completed 12 resident credit hours at Purdue Fort Wayne (earned hours), and are in good standing for satisfactory academic progress.

  • The full value will be awarded for the next aid year and split equally each term moving forward.

  • Standard renewal criteria are expected for all future aid years.

  • All other Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship details above have the same expectations for spring admits.

For full scholarship consideration, your application and all required documentation must be submitted by the deadline(s). Actual scholarship awards are based upon official academic records after admission to Purdue Fort Wayne.

Program expires Summer 2025 and is not valid for future academic terms.
International & Non-Citizen students who qualify for the Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship and meet all required deadlines are awarded $250 PFW Scholarship Plus their first semester with the university. This is a one-time benefit of earning the Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship. Please see deadline requirements above to learn when you will have access to these funds.

DON DOLLARS

Program expires Summer 2025 and is not valid for future academic terms.

Students who qualify for the Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship and meet all required deadlines are awarded $250 Don Dollars their first semester with the university. This is a one-time benefit of earning the Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship. Please see the deadline requirements above to learn when you will have access to these funds.

UNIVERSITY CARD HOLDER RESPONSIBILITY 

• The Mastodon ID Card is the property of Purdue University Fort Wayne, and the policies and procedures of the university govern its use.
• The photo taken for your Mastodon Card is stored digitally by Campus Credentials and Transportation and may be used for other approved business purposes at Purdue Fort Wayne. Your digital photograph may be used under the following circumstances:
  • For security and identification purpose
  • Your written authorization
  • To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and lawful orders and requests to produce the photograph, upon direction and approval from the Office of Legal Counsel
  • For other internal business purposes as approved by Purdue Fort Wayne policy 
• A card is issued to assist in the identification of the valid cardholder and is to be presented upon request for securing privileges and services.
• The Mastodon Card is valid only while you are a registered student, active university employee, or university retiree—or until the card is revoked.
• The Mastodon Card is nontransferable and does not authorize me to obligate Purdue Fort Wayne in any way.
• Altering or intentionally damaging an ID card, using another person’s Mastodon Card, or allowing my card to be used by another person may result in disciplinary action and confiscation of the card. 
• I am responsible for paying any replacement fee when the Mastodon Card is lost, stolen, confiscated, or intentionally damaged, or when any information is changed at my request.
• I should notify Campus Credentials and Transportation immediately if a card is lost or stolen. If a confiscated, surrendered, lost, stolen, or otherwise damaged card has a balance on the value stripe, there is no guaranteed refund on the unused balance on the card. 
• I am responsible for notifying Campus Credentials and Transportation to deactivate the online functionality of the Mastodon Card should the card be lost or stolen.

DON DOLLARS ACCOUNT DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

Consumer Liability   
Please notify us at once if you believe your card has been lost or stolen, or if you believe that an electronic fund transfer has been made without your permission. Telephoning is the best way of keeping your possible losses down. You could lose all the money in your account. If you tell us within two business days after you learn of the loss or theft of your card, you can lose no more than $50 if someone used your card without your permission. 

If you do not tell us within two business days after you learn of the loss or theft of your card, and we can prove we could have stopped someone from using your card without your permission if you had told us, you could lose as much as $500.  

Also, if your statement shows transfers that you did not make, tell us at once. If you do not tell us within 60 days after the statement was mailed to you, you may not get back any money you lost after the 60 days if we can prove that we could have stopped someone from taking the money if you had told us in time. If a good reason (such as a long trip or a hospital stay) kept you from telling us, we will extend the time periods.

Contact in Event of Unauthorized Transfer   
If you believe your card has been lost or stolen, contact Campus Credentials and Transportation:

                Campus Credentials and Transportation

                Walb Union, Room 127

                2101 East Coliseum Boulevard

                Fort Wayne, IN 46805

                [email protected] or 260-481-6611

You should also call the number or write to the address listed above if you believe a transfer has been made using your card without your permission.

Business Days 
For purposes of these disclosures, our business days are Monday through Friday. PFW holidays are not included.

Transfer Types and Limitations   
You may use your card for purchases at locations that have agreed to accept for payment. Cash deposits to your card may be made at Mastodon Card Stations. Services may be limited at some locations. Certain locations may have a limit on the dollar amounts of individual purchases. There are no limitations on the number of purchases. No transfers can be made from other Purdue Fort Wayne accounts. No cash withdrawals can be made, unless you are closing your account.

Fees

• Don Dollars: We may close accounts when you are no longer enrolled in, or employed by, Purdue Fort Wayne. A fee of $25 is charged to close an account. Proceeds from the closed account will be paid through the Office of the Bursar and will be subject to offsets against other debts you owe to Purdue Fort Wayne. The Office of the Bursar will not process a refund of balance for less than $5. There is no fee to close an account with a $0 balance. The Don Dollars account does not pay interest. Except as stated above, there are no per-transfer charges, fixed charges, or minimum balance charges.
• Mastodon Card: There is a fee of $20 to replace lost, stolen or damaged cards.

Confidentiality of Account Information   
We will disclose information to third parties about your account of the transfer you make 

• where it is necessary for completing transfer, or
• in order to verify the existence and condition of your account for a third party, such as a credit bureau or merchant, or
• in order to comply with government agency or court orders. 

Receipts 
You can get a receipt at the time you make a purchase unless the purchase is at an electronic terminal and is in the amount of $15 or less. 

Periodic Statements 
Customers can go to pfw.edu/eaccounts and view statements on demand by logging in with a username and password. 

Our Liability for Failure to Make Transfers 
If we do not complete a transfer to or from your account on time or in the correct amount according to our agreement with you, we will be liable for your losses or damages. However, there are some exceptions. We will not be liable, for instance

• if, through no fault of ours, you do not have enough money in your account to make the transfer,
• if the terminal system was not working properly and you knew about the breakdown when you started the transfer, and
• if circumstances beyond our control (such as fire or flood) prevent the transfer, despite reasonable precautions that we have taken. (There may be other exceptions stated in our agreement with you.)

Error Resolution 
In case of errors or questions about your electronic transfers telephone us at 260-481-6611, write us at Walb Union, Room 127, 2101 East Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, or email us at [email protected] as soon as you can. If you think your statement or receipt is wrong or if you need more information about a transfer listed on the statement or receipt, we must hear from you no later than 60 days after we sent the first statement on which the problem or error appeared: 

1. Tell us your name and account number (if any).
2. Describe the error or the transfer you are unsure about, and explain as clearly as you can why you believe it is an error or why you need more information.
3. Tell us the dollar amount of the suspected error. 

If you tell us orally, we may require that you send us your complaint or questions in writing within 10 business days.  

We will determine whether an error occurred within 10 business days after we hear from you and will correct any error promptly. If we need more time, however, we may take up to 45 days to investigate your complaint or questions. If we decide to do this, we will credit your account within 10 business days for the amount you think is in error so that you will have the use of the money during the time it takes us to complete our investigation. If we ask you to put your complaint or question in writing and we do not receive it within 10 business days, we may not credit your account.  

For errors involving new accounts, point-of-sale, or foreign-initiated transactions, we may take up to 90 days to investigate your complaint or question. For new accounts, we may take up to 20 business days to credit your account for the amount you think is in error.  

We will tell you the results within three business days after completing our investigation. If we decide that there was no error, we will send you a written explanation. You may ask for copies of the documents that we used in our investigation.  

Don Dollars Account Additional Terms 
In addition to the terms and conditions contained in the disclosure statement, the following terms and conditions also apply: 

• We may close accounts when you are no longer enrolled in, or employed by, Purdue Fort Wayne. All funds in the Don Dollar Scholars account will not be refunded to students.
• Your Don Dollars account balance will be carried forward from semester to semester as long as you are enrolled in, or employed by, Purdue Fort Wayne.  
• Cash refunds are not made for returned merchandise. Cash withdrawals are not permitted.  
• Future changes in terms and conditions regulating use of Don Dollars accounts and cards will apply to all cards in circulation and use at the future date and will supersede the terms and conditions in effect at the time the card was acquired. 
• Your Don Dollars account will only be established if you qualify and meet all Purdue Fort Wayne Scholarship eligibility requirements for awarding.   
• You are only eligible for a Don Dollars account while actively on campus. Visiting scholars, temporary employees, and official retirees are not eligible.

ScholarshipUniverse is a matching system that maximizes scholarship opportunities for students. It allows you to create an academic profile that enables you to connect with various internal and external scholarship opportunities. Updating your student profile criteria regularly will help you see all external scholarships you qualify for. ScholarshipUniverse will also match you to university scholarships and departmental scholarships.

If you’re a current Purdue student, head to pfw.scholarshipuniverse.com and enter your career account credentials.

More information on scholarship universe here.

Chapman Scholars
The Chapman Scholars Program selects six incoming first-year students who are distinguished as high achievers in and out of the classroom each year. Chapman Scholars receive tuition, fees, room and board, and textbooks for four years. The program develops engaged scholars who understand that civic engagement is key to personal growth as well as the growth and strength of a community.

Summit Scholars
The Summit Scholars Program is a full-ride scholarship program that includes two premier competitive, merit-based scholarships: the Chapman Scholarship (all majors) and the Doermer Distinguished Scholarship (business majors only).

Find out more information about these full-ride scholarships by visiting their site.

How outside scholarships affect your financial aid package. 
Getting an outside, or private, scholarship can reduce the amount of financial aid you need to receive from your college, but that does not mean you will have to pay a bigger share of your college costs. It’s actually a pretty cool exchange. Scholarship dollars replace financial aid dollars.

What is an outside scholarship? 
An outside scholarship is a scholarship awarded by an organization other than the government or your college. These scholarships are usually sponsored by employers or community organizations, for example, and should be reported to your college’s financial aid office in order to prevent what is called an overaward. If all the aid a student receives ends up being $300 or more above what is needed, the college must reduce the aid it offers. It is up to your college to decide what type of financial aid to reduce or cut if you receive an outside scholarship. 

Scholarship search engines have proven to be a very useful resource for helping students to locate scholarships. Please note that most scholarship search websites require the applicant to complete a profile. The websites then use the information provided to match the student with possible scholarship opportunities.  

Keep the following in mind as you begin your quest for gifts that don’t need to be repaid:

• Be extremely cautious as you search for scholarships.
• Protect yourself from scholarship scams.
• Avoid websites or applications that require a fee.

Many community foundations offer scholarships for students from or living in their geographic focus. Listed below are all community foundations found in Indiana. If you are not a resident of Indiana, we highly suggest you contact your local community foundation and ask about potential scholarship opportunities.

Many community foundations offer scholarships for students from or living in their geographic focus. Listed below are some community foundations found in Ohio. If yours is not listed, we highly recommend you find and contact your community foundation about any scholarships they might offer.

Here is a PDF with more information and links to scholarship opportunities for International students.

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