What is the deadline for Spirit Of Catawba Scholarship?

The deadline to apply to Catawba College for the Spirit of Catawba Scholarship is November 15.

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Catawba College scholarships and merit aid

Catawba offers multiple merit tiers that reward academic achievement across a range of qualifications.

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Is Catawba College worth a closer look?

Catawba College may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

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First-year students with school awards24%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025

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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.

$8,000–$23,000

Pillars Scholarship

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$8,000–$23,000

Founders Scholarship

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$8,000–$23,000

Deans Scholarship

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$8,000–$23,000

Trustee Scholarship

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$8,000–$23,000

Presidential Scholarship

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Who this school may work for

Prospective students with solid to exceptional academic records who want their achievements recognized in their financial aid package should explore these options.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $49,990 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Catawba College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$13,618
$30,001–$48,000	$17,495
$48,001–$75,000	$15,412
$75,001–$110,000	$17,440
$110,001+	$24,420
All income levels (average)	$17,879

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $34,300
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $17,879

That works out to roughly a 64% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $49,516 (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: 77%
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): $48,793
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 42%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 52%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Catawba College'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 Catawba College'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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More school data

From the Catawba College Common Data Set 2024-2025:

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Catawba College’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.

24%of admitsget merit

Average award$23,346Covers ~47% of $49,990 cost of attendance

At Catawba College, roughly 1 in 4 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $23,346 — about 47% of total cost.

As filed in Catawba College's CDS Section H2A: of 325 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 79 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $23,346. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 326 of 1,079, averaging $20,040. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

Receive institutional merit24%First-year students, Common Data Set 2024-2025

Average merit award$23,346Across recipients, Common Data Set 2024-2025

Source: Common Data Set 2024-2025 (verified 2026-07-23)

Catawba College merit aid FAQ

What is the deadline for Spirit Of Catawba Scholarship?
The deadline to apply to Catawba College for the Spirit of Catawba Scholarship is November 15.

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Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Catawba College’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceCatawba College cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersPillars Scholarship

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