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Alaska Pacific University scholarships and merit aid

Alaska Pacific offers merit aid to students engaged in academics, outdoor pursuits, and specialized fields.

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Is Alaska Pacific University worth a closer look?

Alaska Pacific University is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 10 published awards, and 5 are based on those numbers.

Merit tiers105 based on grades or scores

Research checkedJun 2026By our research team

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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

$1,500

Leah J Peterson Aspire

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 2.75

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How to keep it

Maintain 2 GPA

$7,000

Atwood Distinguished

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3.85

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How to keep it

Maintain 2.75 GPA

Amount not published

Richard L And Diane M Block Endowed Scholarship

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$2,500

Leah J Peterson Trustee

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3

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How to keep it

Maintain 2.75 GPA

$3,000–$7,000

Alaska Performance Scholarship

Apply separately

Amount not published

Jim And Dee Mahaffey Endowed Ski Scholarship

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Amount not published

Merit Scholarships

Based on grades or scores

$5,000

Atwood Performance

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3.5

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How to keep it

Maintain 2.75 GPA

Amount not published

Ed Stauber And Robert Pfiel Endowed Athletic Ski Scholarship

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Amount not published

Marion Richter Ski Scholarship

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Who this school may work for

Students with strong high school records who are also active in skiing, writing, teaching, or technical areas may find well-matched scholarship opportunities here.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $46,110 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Alaska Pacific University, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Alaska Pacific University, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$19,404
$30,001–$48,000	$13,365
$48,001–$75,000	$16,037
$110,001+	$31,181
All income levels (average)	$21,616

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $20,760
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $21,616

That works out to roughly a 36% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $34,026 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 47%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 68%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $23,500 (~$249/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $54,271
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 36%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 44%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Alaska Pacific University's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Alaska Pacific University's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

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Other Alaska Pacific University scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

Nick And Laura Giles Expedition Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityNick and Laura Giles Expedition Scholarship supports Outdoor Studies or Marine and Environmental Sciences undergraduate students planning an expedition or outdoor/field course and requires a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 based on the last semester.

Leah J Peterson Early Honors Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Leah J. Peterson Early Honors Scholarship provides financial support to high school students demonstrating academic merit who are enrolled in the Early Honors program.

At Sea Processors Association Endowed Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe At-Sea Processors Association Endowed Scholarship is for high performing undergraduate students who desire to work in marine biology or a fisheries-related field in Alaska after graduation.

Cliff Hartman Endowed Teaching Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Cliff Hartman Endowed Teaching Scholarship is an undergraduate endowed merit scholarship for students with a strong interest in teaching and education.

Jane Hartman Endowed Writing Award

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Jane Hartman Endowed Writing Award is an undergraduate endowed merit scholarship for students with a strong interest in literary studies and creative writing.

Anchorage Amateur Radio Club Endowed Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Anchorage Amateur Radio Club Endowed Scholarship is for full-time undergraduate students showing promise in science, mathematics, communications radio, electronics, or astronomy.

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How Alaska Pacific University compares

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Alaska Pacific University is one of them. The cohort minority (84 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Alaska Pacific University’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceAlaska Pacific University cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersLeah J Peterson Aspire
Merit tiersRichard L And Diane M Block Endowed Scholarship

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