Chief Dull Knife College · Montana

Chief Dull Knife College scholarships and merit aid

Merit awards at this tribal college recognize students who show commitment to their studies and community.

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Is Chief Dull Knife College worth a closer look?

Chief Dull Knife 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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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.

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Aicf Student Of The Year

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The Steve Chestnut Scholarship

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Cdkc Student Of The Year

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GPA: 3

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$500

Dr John Woodenlegs Scholarship

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$500

Edwin Dahle Memorial Scholarship

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GPA: 2.5

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Who this school may work for

These scholarships suit students dedicated to their education and service on the Crow Indian Reservation who are looking for an institution that values both academic effort and community contribution.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $1,960 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Chief Dull Knife College, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$13,940
$48,001–$75,000	$14,361
All income levels (average)	$14,010

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $1,960
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $14,010

That works out to roughly a 21% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $17,734 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Chief Dull Knife College 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

Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $20,073
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 55%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 0%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Chief Dull Knife College's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
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. 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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Every claim is checked against Chief Dull Knife College’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceChief Dull Knife College cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersAicf Student Of The Year

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