West Texas A&M University Merit Scholarship Program Revised

The newly revised West Texas A&M University Merit Scholarship Program will allow more students to get financial assistance starting in the Fall of 2021.

The program will increase the number of qualifying students and raise the amount given to up to 8-thousand dollars a year.

This means that students are guaranteed that as long as they meet credit hour and GPA requirements , they’ll receive the merit scholarship for four years or until they complete a bachelors degree.

For qualifying students they could get approximately 32-thousand dollars of their 4 year degree paid for even before other University, departmental, or external scholarships are applied

For students who live on campus, the scholarship could cut by almost half the tuition, fees, and housing costs.

Students living at home, the cost of attending WT could be reduced to 15-hundred dollars a year or 6-thousand dollars over four years. That makes an 84 percent annual savings.

Merit scholarships are awarded based on students’ high school achievements, not based on need. WT’s Merit Scholarship Program are based on class rank and ACT or SAT scores so that top students can receive up to $8,000 per year, Baylor said. Other levels are $4,000, $3,000 and $1,500 per year.

Students not at the top level can still expect to see between $6,000 and $16,000 in annual savings — up to 42 percent off of tuition and fees.

Revising the scholarship programs keeps WT competitive with other universities and colleges across the nation.