UCI Distinguished Scholarships Category 2023

The University of California Irvine is inviting applications from suitably qualified domestic and international undergraduate and masters students for UCI Distinguished Scholarships Category for the 2023/2024 academic year.

This scholarship is an opportunity granted to qualified undergraduate and master candidates. As long as the qualifying standards are still met, this scholarship is renewable for freshmen for three years and for transfer students for one year. For awards in the upcoming academic year, the scholarship application open period for continuing students is open through the month of January. This program is hosted and sponsored by University of California Irvine, USA.

The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine)[11] is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students are enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2019. The university is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”, and had $523.7 million in research and development expenditures in 2021. UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996. The university was rated as one of the “Public Ivies” in 1985 and 2001 surveys comparing publicly funded universities the authors claimed provide an education comparable to the Ivy League. As of January 2022, there have been 8 Nobel Prize laureates, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipients, 37 Guggenheim Fellows, and 1 Turing Award winner affiliated with the university as alumni, faculty or researchers.

University of California Irvine offers many scholarship opportunities for current undergraduate students through the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships’ annual online scholarship application.

The Regents’ Scholarship
The Chancellor’s Excellence Scholarship
The Directors’ Scholarship

Scholarship Summary:

Scholarship Sponsor(s): University of California Irvine, USA

Host Institution(s): University of California Irvine, USA

Scholarship Worth: Not stated

Number of Awards: Several

Study Level: Undergraduates & Masters

Nationality: Domestic & International Students

Requirement and Eligibility Criteria for UCI Distinguished Scholarships Category 2023:

Undergraduate and Master degree students enrolled full-time (minimum of 12 units in each academic quarter) at UCI (Doctoral degree students should not complete this application, please check with your department or Graduate Division for scholarship/fellowship opportunities)
Minimum 2.5 undergraduate admissions GPA or UCI cumulative GPA.
Applicants must have filed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), if eligible, in order to qualify for need-based scholarships. The FAFSA can be filed at www.studentaid.ed.gov. Students who are not eligible to file a FAFSA and qualify for the AB 540 fee exemption waiver must submit a California Dream Act application in order to qualify for need-based scholarships. The California Dream Act application can be filed at dream.csac.ca.gov.
Eligible students are undergraduate students pursuing their first bachelor’s degree who are either U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or eligible non-citizens.
International students may apply for UCI scholarships, however they cannot file a FAFSA or CA DREAM Act Application, so they do not qualify for need-based scholarships.

Application Procedures for the 2023/2024 UCI Distinguished Scholarships Category (how to apply):

There is no application process for the Distinguished Scholarship category. Based on their UC application for admission, students are automatically considered for the scholarships in this category.

For these scholarships, no further information is needed or taken into account during the selection process. You must submit your fall admission application by November 30 in order to be considered for these three awards.

Application Deadline: November 30, 2023

For more information about this opportunity, Visit the Official Website.

UCI Distinguished Scholarships Category 2023