Scholarships
The Scripps College of Communication has dozens of scholarships for communication majors in all five schools. Many are academically based. Others honor commitment to professional achievement, leadership, and community service. Some are targeted to students from particular regions, counties, or cities.
Scholarship consideration for freshmen is automatic upon completing the Admissions application to Ohio University. Please visit the following link for details: https://www.ohio.edu/admissions/.
Spring semester is scholarship application season for continuing students. As soon as Scripps College students arrive back on campus for spring semester, they should:
- Submit an electronic application for university-level scholarship from the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships by the deadline (OHIO ID and password required).
- Each of the five schools in the Scripps College also offer school level scholarships. Check with individual schools for the application process for school-level scholarships:
- School of Communication Studies: Contact COMS Scholarship Chair Jerry Miller (millerj5@ohio.edu; 740-593-4831)
- E. W. Scripps School of Journalism scholarships
- School of Media Arts & Studies scholarships
- School of Visual Communication scholarships: Contact VICO Scholarship Chair Sam Girton (girton@ohio.edu; 740-597-1335)
- J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies scholarships
Scholarships awarded annually within the Scripps College of Communication :
- Advertising Women of New York
- Andy Alexander Scholarship in Journalism
- Cortland Anderson Memorial Award
- Anonymous Scholarship in Communication
- R. Randolph Apgar Scholarship
- Leonard F. Auerbach Regional Representatives Corporation Scholarship
- Russell N. Baird High School Editor’s Award
- Athens News—Bob Baker Scholarship
- Robert Baker Scholarship
- Ray Beatty/Ted Foster Endowment
- Ralph Bitzer Memorial Advancement Fund
- Paul Boase Family Scholarship
- Paul Boase Prize for Outstanding Scholarship
- Manly Burgin Memorial, William B. Klaus and Robert A. Klaus
- Honorary Outstanding Underclassmen in Radio Award
- Nancy Cartwright Endowment for Forensics Students
- Central Ohio Professional Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists Scholarship
- Jeffery D. Chaddock Endowed Scholarship Fund
- Francis G. and Margaret A. Channell Scholarship
- Eliza Alcorn Clark Memorial Scholarship
- Robert L. Coe Memorial Scholarship
- College of Communication Dean’s Scholarship Fund
- College of Communication Underrepresented Student Recruitment Scholarships
- Communication Internship Support Fund
- Robert Considine Memorial Foreign Internship Award
- Copley Newspapers Scholarship
- Hugh M. Culbertson Fund for Internship support
- Tom Daniels Debate Scholarship
- Barbara M. Davis Graduate Journalism Award
- Karen and Roger Deardorff Graduate Award
- Distinguished Professor Scholarship
- F&W Publications Scholarship
- James W. Faulkner Memorial Scholarship
- Shirley and William Fleischer Foreign Correspondence Internship
- Ford Scholarship
- Founder’s Vision Award
- Mickey Franko Memorial Scholarship
- Robert L. and Teri W. Gerbig Graduate Scholarship
- Robert L. and Teri W. Gerbig Undergraduate Scholarship
- Archie Greer Scholarship
- Leon Harris Jr. Scholarship
- Haskell Student Production Fund
- Wallace and Rebecca L. Hodes Memorial Foreign Correspondence Internship
- John B. Holden Scholarship in Forensics
- Helen Hoover Memorial Scholarship
- Loren Joseph Hortin Scholarship
- Ronald H. Iori Scholarship
- Ralph Izard POST Endowed Scholarship
- Mary Jo and A. Robert Kent Scholarship
- Kodak Professional Photography Scholarship
- Otto and Ruth Kruse Scholarship
- Allan and June Land Award
- Laura Landro Scholarship in Journalism
- George Starr Lasher Living Legacy
- George Starr Lasher Scholarship
- Matt Lauer Internship Support Fund
- Boyd Lewis Scholarship through the Scripps Howard Foundation
- Joseph M. Lichtenberg Memorial Scholarship
- Richard O. Linke Scholarship for Journalism
- Dan Lowe Memorial Scholarship
- Edward J. Martin Memorial Scholarship
- J. Warren McClure School Advisory Board/Tom Lonsbury Scholarship McClure School Director Scholarship
- Sandra Lou McKay Memorial Scholarship
- Frances McVicker Maxwell Debate Award
- George and Dorothy Pursley Messerly Endowed Scholarship
- Mulgrew Visual Communication Travel Endowment
- Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation Legacy Awards
- Joel M. Needle Memorial Scholarship
- Ohio University Forensics Individual Events Award
- Fred Palmer Scholarship in Journalism
- Judy C. Pearson Graduate Award
- The Plain Dealer Scholarship
- Reimer Internship Award
- Everett M. Rogers Scholar Award
- Cornelius Ryan Foreign Internships
- Dorothy and Larry Schey Endowed Scholarship
- Philip E. Schmidt Broadcasting Scholarship
- School of Journalism Freshman Women’s Scholarship
- School of Journalism Scholarship
- Paul Schutzer Memorial Internship in Visual Communication
- Charles L. Scott Scholarship
- Scripps Howard Foundation High School Journalism Workshop Scholarships
- Scripps Howard Foundation Boyd D. Lewis Scholarship
- Scripps Howard Foundation Scholarships
- Scripps Howard Foundation Susan J. Porter Scholarship
- Emerson “Vic” Sherrow Memorial Scholarship
- Loren C. Staats Forensics Award
- Tom Streich Memorial Scholarship
- Lawrence R. Tavcar Memorial Scholarship
- Tom Turnbull Memorial Scholarship
- Christine T. Twardzik Memorial Scholarship
- Madeline L. Utley Scholarship
- Vern N. Utley Scholarship
- Mike Vaughn Scholarship
- Harold and Jeanette White Scholarship in Forensics
- John R. Wilhelm Foreign Correspondence Internship Award
- Ellen Woodward Memorial Award
- Jesse and Ruth Zousmer Memorial Scholarship