Scholarships for January at UNCF

Check out these UNCF scholarships and internships currently open for applications, and complete your application before the deadlines. Look at some of the opportunities UNCF offers high school and college students that can help you get to and through college. Visit UNCF.org/Scholarships any time to see what’s open.

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You will not be considered for a scholarship, internship or program until you submit all the information and essays the application requires.

2024-2025 Colgate-Palmolive X UNCF Inspire Our Future Scholars Program
The Colgate-Palmolive X UNCF Inspire Our Future Scholars Program will provide financial support to students who are enrolled full-time at any U.S. located, accredited four-year college or university and classified as a sophomore when applying for the scholarship. Closes Jan. 6.

2024-2025 The Walter B. Jones, Jr. Scholars Program
The Walter B. Jones, Jr. Scholars Program is a need-based scholarships for first-year freshman students who are enrolled full-time at any UNCF member institution, other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), or any accredited, four-year institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. Closes Jan. 6.

2024-2025 Bimbo Bakeries Student Professional Development Program
This scholarship program is offering up to $5,000 in need based renewable scholarships to African American college sophomores that are enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student at any U.S. located, accredited, four-year college or university, with preference given to HBCU students. Closes Jan. 6.

2024-2025 Rayman V. & Margaret M. Dodson Scholarship
UNCF is excited to open an application to consider the next cohort for the Rayman V. & Margaret M. Dodson Scholarship for students from Southeast Michigan who are afforded the opportunity to earn a college degree. Students must be a permanent resident of Michigan in one of the following counties, Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, St. Clair, and Livingston. See the list of eligible zip codes. Closes Jan. 7.

2024-2025 June & Wylie Selden Memorial Endowment
In memory of June and Wylie Selden, students will receive a need-based scholarship to assist in furthering their college education for the 2023-2024 academic year. The scholarship is available to current undergraduate students who are enrolled at a UNCF member institution. Closes Jan. 8.

2025-2026 UNCF K-12 Education Fellowship Summer
The UNCF K-12 Education Fellowship is a leadership and talent development program which selects undergraduate juniors from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to participate in a 10-week summer experience that includes leadership development, a paid internship with an innovative K-12 educational organization or school, and participation in an education reform case competition. Closes Jan. 8.

2024-2025 Nissan Scholars
The Nissan Scholars Program will provide a total of four scholarships to two students attending Fisk University and two attending Tennessee State University. During the summer of 2025, award recipients may be offered a Nissan internship. Selected recipients will be awarded a one-time scholarship of up to $5,000 for the 2024-2025 academic year. Closes Jan. 13.

2025-2026 UNCF Achievement Capstone Scholarship – Nomination Process
UNCF has partnered with The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) to launch the UNCF Achievement Capstone Scholarship which honors and awards financial assistance to current African-American college seniors at selected four-year degree granting HBCU’s or Predominately Black Institutions within the 2024-25 Academic year. Closes Jan. 13.

2024-2025 AlixPartners MBA Scholarship
The AlixPartners MBA Scholarship Program will provide a one-time $10,000 merit-based scholarship to first-year MBA students attending one of the 30 top-ranked US business schools. Closes Jan. 15.

2024-2025 John Lennon Endowed Scholarship Program
The John Lennon Endowed Scholarship program was established by Yoko Ono in the memory of her late husband, the entertainer John Lennon, in partnership with UNCF. The scholarship program is designed to provide scholarship support to deserving students attending one of the 37 UNCF member institutions. Closes Jan. 16.

2024-2025 UBS/PaineWebber Scholarship
The UBS/PaineWebber Scholarship will be directed to current sophomores or juniors, who demonstrate outstanding academic performance within the various business disciplines at the targeted UNCF Institutions. The selected recipients will be awarded during the 2024-25 Academic Year. Closes Jan. 23.

2024-2025 HBCU – Sustainable Communities Initiative
The HBCU Sustainable Communities Initiative (HBCU SCI) focuses on preparing and training future business and community leaders in the field of sustainability, preparing them to create and maintain thriving communities through design, planning, investment, and policymaking. Eligible HBCU students gain access to support knowledge, and resources that help prepare them for fulfilling careers focused on solving our communities’ most pressing social, economic and environmental problems. Closes Jan. 27.

2024-2025 Robert Tanner Freeman Endowed Scholarship Program
In partnership with UNCF, Dental Trade Alliance Foundation has developed the Robert Tanner Freeman Endowed Scholarship Program to identify and provide scholarships for Black dental students accepted to an accredited dental program. Closes Jan. 27.

2025-2026 Fidelity Scholars Program
The Fidelity Scholars program will fund Bachelor’s degree recipients for up to four years of study. As a need-based renewable scholarship, the amount of financial support provided will depend on the cost of attendance determined at the college or university in which you are enrolling. Closes Jan. 30.

2024-2025 UNCF/City of Miramar Scholarship
The City of Miramar Scholarship Program led by Commissioner Yvette Colbourne, will provide a one-time, need-based scholarship to one (1) student, who is a recent high school graduate from each of the following high schools: Everglades High School, Miramar High School, and Somerset Academy. Eligible applicants for this scholarship must now be attending any U.S.-based, accredited college or university during this 2024-2025 school year. Closes Jan. 30.

2024-2025 Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship
The Ahmanson Family Foundation Scholarship Program is open to undergraduate or graduate students at UNCF member schools who are from the greater Los Angeles, California area. Closes Jan. 30.

2024-2025 Black Winemakers Scholarship
Urban Connoisseurs created the Black Winemakers Scholarship Fund, and has partnered with the Association of African American Vintners (AAAV) to further the effort to bring awareness of a growing diversity in the industry. The Black Winemakers Scholarship Program is a merit-based scholarship to support full-time, African American, juniors, seniors or graduate students (MS and/or Ph.D.) attending any U.S. accredited, four-year or graduate college or university during the Spring of 2025. Closes Jan. 31.