ETSU General Application Scholarships

Through the generosity of East Tennessee State University supporters, these scholarships help ETSU students receive a valuable education.

How to Apply To receive a scholarship you will need to: Submit the ETSU General University Scholarship Application between October 1 and March 1. Complete your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as soon as possible. When you apply for scholarships with financial need as one of the criteria, we will use the results of your FAFSA to determine your level of financial need.

Each of the scholarships below have specific requirements set forth by the donors. The amount provided by each of these scholarships varies by the amount in the fund and the stipulations of the scholarship.

ETSU General Application Scholarships

• Academic Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Must be a current, sophomore, junior, or senior undergrad
  • Documented financial need
• Artazn Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.2
  
  Requirements: 
  

  • Preference to a Greene County High School graduates and Greene County residents
  • Employee or dependent of employee of Jarden Zinc Products (at least one year of service required)
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Documented financial need
• Aubrey Hunter Jobe Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0
  
  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • First-time freshmen
  • First preference to graduates of Northside High School in Roanoke County, VA; otherwise graduates of a high school located in Roanoke, Salem, or Vinton, VA
  • Applicants must possess the same characteristics as the late Aubrey Hunter Jobe: demonstrated leadership and a positive attitude for life through participation in school and/or community sponsored extracurricular activities.
  • Documented financial need
• Ben and Jeanne Greene Family Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.8
  
  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Resident of Blount County, TN
  • Documented financial need
• Bill and Lynne Stamm Kovach Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5 (freshmen), 3.0 (currently enrolled)

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 24/1160
  
  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must demonstrate potential academic success
  • Documented financial need
• Boyd S. Ray Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Graduates of Johnson County High School
• Brock Services Ltd. - Tom and Doris Little Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Dependents of Brock Services Ltd. employees
• Buford J. and Mary Jane Goldstein Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Documented financial need
• BYX Fraternity Scholarship

  Amount: $500 per academic year

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Must be Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity member
  • Demonstrated commitment to commmunity service
• Challenge 2000 Manahan Scholars

  Amount: $2,000 per academic year

  Minimum GPA: 3.5

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 25/1200

  Requirements:

  • First-time freshmen
  • Participation in extracurricular activies and community service
• Charles and Martha Montgomery Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.7

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates and graduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Preference given to students from northeast TN, southwest Virginia, western North Carolina, or eastern Kentucky
  • Documented financial need
• Christina Clarke Scholarship

  Amount: Varies
  
  Minimum GPA: 2.8

  Requirements:

  • Undergraduates
  • Residents of Unicoi County, TN
  • Graduates of Unicoi County High School
  • Demonstrated ability and commitment toward completing and graduating with an undergraduate degree
• David Crockett Alumni Scholarship

  Amount: Varies
  
  Minimum GPA: 2.7 - 3.5

  Requirements:

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • First-time freshmen
  • Graduate of David Crockett High School
  • Must demonstrate involvement in both school and community
• Dr. Burgin E. and Nell Jennings Dossett Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • Documented financial need
  • Preference given to Tennessee residents
• Dr. Eduardo Zayas-Bazon Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • Spanish majors and minors
  • Participate in a study abroad program in a Spanish-speaking country
• Dr. Mack P. Davis ETSU Retirees Association Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.2 (freshmen), 3.0 (transfer)

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 26/980

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Freshmen or transfer students
  • Demonstrated leadership skills and potential for future success
  • Documented financial need
• Dr. Richard A. and Lois A. Manahan Family Tennessee Scholars

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5-3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-time freshmen
  • Graduate of Science Hill High School (Johnson City, TN)
• Dr. S. Martin Bronson Memorial Carter County Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate of Carter County, TN high school
  • Dependents of teachers in public schools situated in Carter County, TN
  • Have the ability and commitment to complete the coursework required for graduation from ETSU with an undergraduate degree
  • Maintain good academic standing
  • Documented financial need
• Dr. Sam W. and Carolee P. McKinstry Law Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.6

  Requirements: 

  • Seniors planning to attend and graduate from an ABA-accredited law school upon completion of undergraduate degree at ETSU
  • Demonstration of successful, significant participation in leadership activities, or service as undergraduate at ETSU
• Duncan Street Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Graduates of Cloudland High School
  • Documented financial need
• Earl B. Bolling Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.5

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 25/1200

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-time freshmen
  • Graduates of Elizabethton or Carter County, TN high school
  • Documented financial need
• Edde Family Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • Must be a full-time student
  • First-time freshmen
  • Graduate of Grainger High School or Washburn High School
  • Documented financial need
• Eddie J. Miller and William "Bill" Olwell Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5 (freshmen), 3.0 (currently enrolled/transfer)

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 21/1060

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Graduate of Hampton High School (Hampton, TN)
  • Documented financial need
• Eddie Williams Jr. Memorial Rural Health Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Juniors or seniors with an interest in rural health issues
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Residents of northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia or western North Carolina
  • Required to submit a 500-word essay describing interest in rural health issues
  • Documented financial need
• Edna Harrison Family Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates and graduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Demonstrated good character and promise for future career and professional achievement
• Esther Elizabeth Whitaker-Carder Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Residents of Sullivan, Carter, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Johnson, Unicoi or Washington counties (TN); Lee, Scott or Washington counties (VA)
• ETSU Alumni Legacy Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Dependent of ETSU Alumni
  • Documented financial need
• ETSU Blue and Gold Scholarship

  Amount: $1,000 per academic year

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 20/1020

  Requirements: 

  • Recipients are not eligible for any other ETSU scholarships
  • Documented financial need
• ETSU Family Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Dependents or spouse of full-time, permanent ETSU employees
  • Maintain good academic standing
• ETSU Reentry Student Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Primary caretaker of household
  • Desire to reenter the job market through academic preparation
  • Successfully completed one year of college coursework
• ETSU Students of Distinction Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Currently enrolled ETSU students
  • Juniors and seniors
  • Designated for outstanding students who are not receiving another ETSU scholarship
  • Resident of Tennessee or border counties
  • Documeted financial need
• First Horizon Bank Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 21/1060

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Dependents of First Horizon Bank employees
• George H. Garrett Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-time freshman
  • East Tennessee residents (Tri-Cities area)
  • Demonstrated ability, character, and scholastic performance
  • Documented financial need
• George S. Brown Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Graduate of Carter County, TN high school
  • Documented financial need
• Giles W. Morrill Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Residents of Unicoi County, TN
  • Documented financial need
• Greene County/Greeneville Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Juniors and seniors
  • Residents of Greene County, TN
  • Documented financial need
• Harry O. Fine Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-time freshmen
  • Graduates of Elizabethton High School
  • Minimum three years in interscholastic athletics or two years in cheerleading
  • Documented financial need
• Heritage Federal Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Employee or a dependent of Heritage Federal; or residents of the Tri-Cities area enrolled in the College of Business and Technology
• Inspire Scholarship

  Amount: $5,000 per academic year

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 21/1060

  Requirements: 

  • First-time freshmen
  • Residents of Tennessee
  • Must reside in campus housing
  • Must enroll in First-Year Experience Course
  • Eligible for Aspire Lottery Scholarship
  • Documented financial need
• J.C. Kensinger Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Residents of Hawkins County, TN
  • Graduates of Hawkins County, TN high school
• J.C. Morris Family Foundation Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.0
  
  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Residents of Greene County, TN
  • Demonstrated committment to community service
• Jack and Sally Church Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Maintain good academic standing
  • Residents of Carter and Johnson, TN counties
  • Documented financial need
• James B. & Nellie B. Brinkley Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0 (freshmen), 2.5 (undergraduates)

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 26 or 1240

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Demonstrates potential and commitment to complete an ETSU degree
• James E. Broach Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.5 (incoming freshmen), 3.2 (currently enrolled)

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 26

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Residents of Tennessee
  • Must submit FAFSA and be eligible for only federal loans
• James H. Quillen Scholarship

  Amount: $5,000 per academic year

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Minimum ACT/SAT: 19/980

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Residents of one of the following counties in Tennessee: Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, or Washington
  • Demonstrated achievement in scholastic endeavors, school and community leadership, volunteer services and activities, other extracurricular activities and/or work experience
  • Documented financial need
• John Bowers Elizabethton Rotary Club Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Carter County, TN residents
  • Attended Elizabethton or Carter County High School for at least two years
  • Documented financial need
• John R. Cunningham Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Freshmen or transfer
  • Graduates of Johnson County High School
  • Preference for criminal justice majors
  • Documented financial need
• John R. Diehl Jr. Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Served by Holston Home for Children; or graduates of David Crockett High School, or any other Washington County, TN high school
  • Must have a strong desire to complete their education
  • Demonstrated financial need
• Johnson City Lion's Club Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Student with a disability, primarily those with a vision or hearing impairment documented through ETSU Disability Services; or junior, senior, or graduate student planning a career in disability services
  • Demonstrated financial need
• Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC) Medical Staff Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Must be a dependent (includes spouses, child, or step-child) of:
    • a physician who currently holds privileges to practice medicine at JCMC
    • an allied health professional including but not limited to physician's assistants or nurses at JCMC
• Karen Kelly-Van Pernis Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Must qualify for maximum Pell Grant
  • Documented financial need 
• Kathleen Ikenberry Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • Preference to students who are active in the ETSU ROTC program or who participate as student athletes in intercollegiate sports with a priority to ETSU cheerleaders
  • Documented financial need
• Lathan Allen Leonard and Philip Earl Wilson Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0
  
  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-generation student
  • High school Upward Bound participant
  • Documented financial need
• Lawrence and Chouree Counts Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-time freshmen
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Documented financial need
• Lloyd A. & Sally K. Hughes Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • Docmented financial need
• Lyle Family Re-Entry Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Successfully completed one year of college coursework
  • Residents of one of the following Tennessee counties: Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, or Washington.
  • Must have had, or continue to have, significant family caretaking responsibilities or work-related responsibilities to support his or her family
  • Required to submit an essay describing caretaking responsibilities
  • Must be re-entering the higher education process in order to complete an undergraduate degree
  • Documented financial need
• Margaret Campbell Flanary Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Residents of one of the following Tennessee counties: Sullivan or Washington
  • Documented financial need
• Martin and Louise Smith Endowment for Physically Challenged Students

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Students with physical challenges documented through ETSU Disability Services 
  • Documented financial need
• Michael Young and the Langston Education and Arts Development Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.75

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must demonstrate outstanding extracurricular involvement
• Mike & Vivian McIntire Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Transfers from Northeast State Community College
  • Graduates of Kingsport, TN high school
  • Majoring in biology, chemistry, criminal justice, math, physics, computing, engineering technology, surveying, public health, nursing, or pre-medical
• Minifibers, Inc. Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Resident of southwest Virginia or northeast Tennessee 
• Minnie Morgan Bryson Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduate
  • Must be a full-time student
  • First-generation student
  • Residents of Bradley or Polk, TN counties
  • Documented financial need
• Mountain City Rotary Club Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Graduates of Johnson County High School with minimum of two years of attendance
  • Demonstrated potential for successfully completing college and having a successful career
• Nancy Vaughn Williams Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.8

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Documented financial need
• Noland Family First-Generation Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-time freshmen
  • First-generation student
  • Graduates of a Tennessee high school with preference for students from the region served by ETSU
  • Must qualify and receive HOPE Scholarship
  • Documented extreme financial need 
• Non-Traditional Student Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Non-traditional student
  • Students upgrading career skills on a part-time or full-time basis
  • Documented financial need
• North American Rayon Corp. Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.8

  Requirements: 

  • Residents of Carter County, TN
  • Documented financial need
• Ralph and Cornelia Clarke Memorial Non-Traditional Student Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.8

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Non-traditional student
  • Documented financial need
• Roy T. Campbell Family Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Residents of Cocke County, TN
  • Documented financial need
• Scotty L. Snyder Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Spouses or dependent children of full-time permanent, retired or deceased employees of East Tennessee State University
• Scott A. Sullivan Endowment for Disability Services

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Full-time or part-time students
  • Disability documented through ETSU Disability Services
  • Documented financial need
• Scott C. Dulebohn MD Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Must be an Academic Health Sciences student 
• Sheela V. Sakhare Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Documented financial need
• Shelton Family David Crockett High School Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.7

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • First-generation student
  • Graduates of David Crockett High School
• Stanley R. Bunn Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates or graduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Demonstrated achievement in school or community leadership
  • Documented financial need
• Street Family Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • First-time freshmen and transfers
  • Residents of one of the following counties in Virginia: Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, and Wise.
  • Demonstrated academic ability
  • Documented financial need
• Sue Smith Scholarship

  Amount: $500 per academic year

  Minimum GPA: 2.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Residents of Johnson or Carter, TN counties
  • Documented financial need
• Susan Phillips Knoll Delta Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 3.0

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • Current member of ETSU Kappa Delta sorority
  • Demonstrate commitment to community service
  • Documented financial need
• Tetrick - Oakley Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.8

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Preference given to dependents of Heritage Family Services employees and residents of their service areas
  • Documented financial need
• Theresa K. and Anthony B. Lee Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Preference to students from east Tennessee or southwest Virginia
  • Major/minor in Political Science or History
  • Documented financial need
• Thomas Deakins Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: 2.5

  Requirements: 

  • Graduates of a Sullivan County high school
  • Major in the Clemmer College of Education and Human Development
  • Documented financial need
• Unicoi County Alumni Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Undergraduates
  • Must be a full-time student
  • First-time freshmen
  • Graduate of Unicoi County High School
  • Documented financial need
• Wiley and Clara Arnold Estep Memorial Scholarship

  Amount: Varies

  Minimum GPA: N/A

  Requirements: 

  • Juniors
  • Graduates of Johnson or Carter, TN counties
  • Documented financial need