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Alcorn State University · Mississippi

Alcorn State Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Alcorn State

Multiple scholarship tiers reward academic distinction, with special support for Mississippi community college transfers.

Rules that bite at Alcorn State

The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from Alcorn State's own published policy, not generic advice.

displacementNo published displacement order
Alcorn State's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.

Who this school is for

Incoming freshmen with strong academic records should aim for the top tiers, while Mississippi community college graduates will find a clear transfer pathway to additional merit support.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $25,625 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Alcorn State, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$12,613
$30,001–$48,000	$12,344
$48,001–$75,000	$16,296
$75,001–$110,000	$18,244
$110,001+	$17,620
All income levels (average)	$13,265

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $8,785
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $13,265

That works out to roughly a 44% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $23,751 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Alcorn State is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 57%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 77%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $27,000 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $36,421
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 85%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 78%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Alcorn State'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 Alcorn State'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.

Institutional merit aid tiers

Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.

Up to $15,000

Provost Scholar Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

GPA: 3
ACT: 24

Requirements & details

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Maintain 3 GPA

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$2,500

Mississippi Community College Transfer Graduates Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

GPA: 3.3

Requirements & details

Renewal terms

Maintain 3 GPA

Source

Up to $18,000

Presidents Excellence Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

GPA: 3
ACT: 28

Requirements & details

Renewal terms

Maintain 3 GPA

Source

$5,000

University Scholar Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

GPA: 3
ACT: 22

Requirements & details

Renewal terms

Maintain 3 GPA

Source

Outside scholarship stacking policy

Qualified applicants may receive only one of the listed scholarships.

Qualified applicants may receive only one of the listed scholarships.

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Alcorn State merit aid FAQ

What is the deadline for Scholarship Application April 1 Deadline?
The scholarship application must be on file by April 1 of the year the student plans to attend.

How Alcorn State compares across our verified dataset

135 of 750 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
Alcorn State is in a recognizable cluster (135 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
135 of 750 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
Alcorn State is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.
668 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Alcorn State is one of them. The cohort minority (82 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 Alcorn State’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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