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Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) scholarships and merit aid

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Posted price$30,742per year · 2025-2026 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 10 published awards, and 8 are based on those numbers.

Where does your student land?

Verified Jun 2026
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The award collection

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.

Where does your student land?

  1. Outstanding Scholars Award$10,000 per year ($40,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Outstanding Scholars Award

    $10,000 per year ($40,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1400
    ACT
    30
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Outstanding Scholars Award

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only; superscore used (best ACT/SAT)

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher.

    Worth knowing

    Top tier of the automatic, non-competitive freshman grid. No separate application — awarded automatically on superscore + GPA. Does NOT stack with the other grid tiers; you receive only the single highest award you qualify for.

  2. Principal Scholarship$9,000 per year ($36,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Principal Scholarship

    $9,000 per year ($36,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1350
    ACT
    29
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Principal Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher.

    Worth knowing

    Automatic, non-competitive grid tier. No separate application. Does not stack with other grid tiers.

  3. Vice Principal Scholarship$8,000 per year ($32,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Vice Principal Scholarship

    $8,000 per year ($32,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1310
    ACT
    28
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Vice Principal Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher.

    Worth knowing

    Automatic, non-competitive grid tier. No separate application. Does not stack with other grid tiers.

  4. Counselor Scholarship$7,000 per year ($28,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Counselor Scholarship

    $7,000 per year ($28,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1280
    ACT
    27
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Counselor Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher.

    Worth knowing

    Automatic, non-competitive grid tier. No separate application. Does not stack with other grid tiers.

  5. Warhawk Scholarship$6,000 per year ($24,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Warhawk Scholarship

    $6,000 per year ($24,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1200
    ACT
    25
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Warhawk Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher.

    Worth knowing

    Automatic, non-competitive grid tier. No separate application. Does not stack with other grid tiers.

  6. Achievement Scholarship$5,000 per year ($20,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Achievement Scholarship

    $5,000 per year ($20,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1130
    ACT
    23
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Achievement Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher.

    Worth knowing

    Automatic, non-competitive grid tier. No separate application. Does not stack with other grid tiers.

  7. Recognition Scholarship$4,000 per year ($16,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Recognition Scholarship

    $4,000 per year ($16,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1020
    ACT
    20
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Recognition Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher.

    Worth knowing

    Automatic, non-competitive grid tier. No separate application. Does not stack with other grid tiers.

  8. Opportunity Scholarship$2,000 per year ($8,000 over 4 years)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Opportunity Scholarship

    $2,000 per year ($8,000 over 4 years)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    2.5
    SAT
    940
    ACT
    18
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Opportunity Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    First-time, full-time freshman entering AUM in the Fall directly from high school; face-to-face programs only

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher. (Note: entry GPA to win the award is 2.5, but renewal requires a 3.0 institution GPA — a real cliff.)

    Worth knowing

    Entry tier of the automatic grid; the only tier with a 2.5 (not 3.0) minimum HS GPA. No separate application. Does not stack with other grid tiers. Watch the renewal cliff: you can win it at 2.5 but must reach a 3.0 institution GPA to renew.

  9. Deichelmann Memorial Scholarship$44,000 total — $10,000/year toward tuition and fees, $500/year for books, plus a one-time $2,000 freshman summer stipendNot automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Deichelmann Memorial Scholarship

    $44,000 total — $10,000/year toward tuition and fees, $500/year for books, plus a one-time $2,000 freshman summer stipend

    Published coverage or packageNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Deichelmann Memorial Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Competitive and limited in number. First-time freshman admission to AUM; top 10% of graduating class; application to the AUM University Honors Program required; typed application + resume + one letter of recommendation; interview late March/early April

    How to keep it

    Renewable up to 4 years; Deichelmann Scholars must maintain a 3.4 cumulative institution GPA, full-time enrollment (12 hours minimum) each fall/spring term, and good standing in university engagement expectations (per the official Deichelmann FAQ).

    Worth knowing

    AUM's flagship competitive award. Separate application required, due March 1, 2026 (email PDF to scholarships@aum.edu). This is the single richest published AUM freshman award. It does NOT combine with the Freshman Leadership Scholarship.

  10. AUM Freshman Leadership Scholarship$2,000 (one-time, one-year award)Not automatic
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    AUM Freshman Leadership Scholarship

    $2,000 (one-time, one-year award)

    Published award termsNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.0
    SAT
    1020
    ACT
    20
    Open award details for AUM Freshman Leadership Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Limited number available; separate application required; recipients participate in a freshman leadership program and serve three hours per week in the campus community

    Renewal terms

    One-year, one-time award — not renewable.

    Worth knowing

    The one true stacking exception at AUM: 'This scholarship may be combined with other freshman academic scholarships (excluding Deichelmann).' Separate application, postmarked no later than March 1.

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The fine print

Renewal ruleOutstanding Scholars Award: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

Renewable for up to four years contingent on full-time enrollment and a maintained minimum cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

Outside awardsNo published displacement order

Auburn at Montgomery (AUM)'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.

What makes Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) different

AUM runs a fully automatic, no-application freshman merit ladder of $2,000-$10,000/year (8 tiers) set on superscore + a 3.0 GPA (2.5 for the entry tier), but the ladder awards do NOT stack with each other — you get the single highest one you qualify for.

Merit tiers108 based on grades or scores
First-year students with school awards25%First-year students, CDS 2023-2024
Research checkedJun 2026By our research team

More than one award path

Separate the two paths.

Some awards use published academic thresholds. Others have different selection criteria. A score chart does not describe every award at this school.

  1. Match the published criteria

    Use all requirements together, including residency and the entering class.

  2. Check the application dates

    Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.

  3. Know what happens next year

    Check renewal, credit requirements and how other aid affects the award.

The fine print / Three questions to carry forward

Before you count on it.

Does it apply to us? Confirm the entering year, residency and every eligibility condition.

Can we keep it? Check renewal GPA, credits and how long the award lasts.

Can we combine it? Ask how outside scholarships and other school awards change the offer.

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What families often miss

  1. These are different campuses with completely different scholarship grids. Main Auburn's 'Spirit of Auburn' / 'Academic Presidential' awards (auburn.edu) are NOT available at AUM. AUM's grid is the Outstanding Scholars / Principal / Warhawk / Opportunity ladder on aum.edu. Use aum.edu numbers only.

  2. They do not. AUM states the eight non-competitive awards 'are not stackable with each other. A student is awarded the highest one they meet the qualifications for' — so a student who clears multiple tiers still receives just one award (the largest), not the sum.

  3. You can earn the entry tier with a 2.5 high-school GPA, but every AUM merit award renews only with a cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher plus full-time enrollment. A first-year student who coasts at a 2.5-2.9 college GPA loses the award — a genuine renewal cliff.

  4. The Freshman Leadership Scholarship 'may be combined with other freshman academic scholarships (excluding Deichelmann).' If you win Deichelmann, you cannot add the Leadership $2,000 on top.

  5. The automatic grid only needs an admission application by June 1. But the competitive awards (Deichelmann, Freshman Leadership, AUM State) require a SEPARATE application by March 1 — miss it and those awards are off the table even if you qualify.

  6. AUM's published 2025-2026 Alabama-resident undergraduate Estimated Tuition/Fees is $11,276, but the full estimated cost of attendance is $30,742 once Housing & Food ($13,167), Transportation ($3,150), Books/Supplies ($1,500), Personal ($1,530), and loan fees are added. A $6,000/yr Warhawk award covers tuition-and-fees-scale costs, not the whole bill.

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Who this school may work for

Alabama (and out-of-state) students who want a predictable, no-application, score-driven merit award at an affordable regional public university; strong applicants in the top 10% of their class can compete separately for the $44,000 Deichelmann award.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $30,742 for 2025-2026. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Auburn at Montgomery (AUM), what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Auburn at Montgomery (AUM), academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$11,706
$30,001–$48,000$12,309
$48,001–$75,000$13,202
$75,001–$110,000$17,387
$110,001+$16,117
All income levels (average)$13,224

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23
$9,700
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23
$20,668
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$13,224

That works out to roughly a 38% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $21,353 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) 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
33%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
68%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$25,000 (~$265/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$44,391
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
51%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
43%
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If your student brings another scholarship

AUM's eight automatic freshman grid scholarships do NOT stack with each other — a student receives only the single highest grid award they qualify for. The AUM Freshman Leadership Scholarship is the explicit exception: it may be combined with other freshman academic scholarships, but NOT with Deichelmann. No official AUM page was found stating how third-party OUTSIDE scholarships displace institutional aid.

The Scholarships-at-a-Glance page states the non-competitive grid awards 'are not stackable with each other. A student is awarded the highest one they meet the qualifications for.' The Freshman Leadership page states it 'may be combined with other freshman academic scholarships (excluding Deichelmann).' No official AUM outside-scholarship displacement policy was located; the federal rule that total aid cannot exceed cost of attendance applies but was not stated on an AUM page.

Source

More school data

From the Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) Common Data Set 2023-2024:

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Auburn at Montgomery (AUM)’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.
25%of admitsget merit
Average award$3,906Covers ~13% of $30,742 cost of attendance

At Auburn at Montgomery (AUM), roughly 1 in 4 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $3,906 — about 13% of total cost.

As filed in Auburn at Montgomery (AUM)'s CDS Section H2A: of 408 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 101 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $3,906. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 338 of 3,350, averaging $4,043. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

Receive institutional merit25%First-year students, Common Data Set 2023-2024
Average merit award$3,906Across recipients, Common Data Set 2023-2024

Source: Common Data Set 2023-2024 (verified 2026-07-23)

Other Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) scholarships worth checking

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

AmountVariesEligibilityMin. superscore ACT 20 / SAT 1020 and 3.0 HS GPA.

Limited in number and competitive (marked with ** on the at-a-Glance grid); amount not published. Separate application ('Apply Now') required.

Source

AmountAmount not published on the official scholarships landing page (a third-party guide describes it as covering a portion of housing costs; treat as unconfirmed until AUM publishes it).EligibilityCompetitive; separate application required per AUM admissions materials.

Listed in AUM recruiting materials alongside Deichelmann and Freshman Leadership as a competitive award requiring application, but no official AUM web page with a published dollar amount was located. Do not publish a dollar figure until confirmed with the aid office.

Source

Amount$100 per credit hour for eligible summer coursesEligibilityFirst-time AUM students, all transient students, and all graduate students enrolled in approved Eligible Incentive Courses.

Automatic, no application. Per the AUM Catalog: 'the summer incentive scholarship of $100 towards each credit hour taken with enrollment in the approved scholarship courses.'

Source

Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) merit aid FAQ

  • Do I have to apply separately for AUM's freshman merit scholarships?

    Not for the automatic grid. The eight Freshman Academic Scholarships (Outstanding Scholars through Opportunity) are non-competitive and awarded automatically on your superscore and GPA — just apply for admission by June 1. The Deichelmann Memorial, AUM Freshman Leadership, and AUM State scholarships are competitive and require a separate application by March 1.

  • Can I combine multiple AUM scholarships?

    Generally no. The eight automatic grid awards 'are not stackable with each other' — you get only the highest one you qualify for. The one exception: the AUM Freshman Leadership Scholarship 'may be combined with other freshman academic scholarships (excluding Deichelmann).'

  • What GPA do I need to keep my AUM scholarship?

    All merit-based awards are renewable for up to four years with full-time enrollment and a maintained cumulative institution GPA of 3.0 or higher. The Deichelmann Memorial Scholarship is stricter — a 3.4 cumulative institution GPA plus Honors Program requirements.

  • Which AUM award is the largest?

    The competitive Deichelmann Memorial Scholarship, totaling $44,000 ($10,000/year toward tuition and fees, $500/year for books, plus a one-time $2,000 summer stipend). Among the automatic grid, the Outstanding Scholars Award is the top tier at $10,000/year.

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How Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) compares

  • 133 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.

    Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) is in a recognizable cluster (133 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

  • 133 of 749 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.

    Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.

  • 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Auburn at Montgomery (AUM) 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 Auburn at Montgomery (AUM)’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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